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ATLASLive
The ATLAS LIVE monitor is a NEC P521 AVT purchased near the beginning of April 2011. It is located in the hallway just outside West Hall 348 (the Michigan ATLAS ...
NEW - 18 May 2011 - 20:51 by ShawnMcKee
TortoiseSVN
Using TortoiseSVN with Putty/Pageant for SVN access to AGLT2 SVN server Prerequisites Install TortoiseSVN from http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads.html Setup putty a...
r3 - 17 May 2011 - 22:57 by BenMeekhof
SiteBlacklisting
Site Blacklisting via DQ2 Commands If you want to exclude your site from DQ2 you need to use the dq2 set location status command. The specific command is: dq2 set...
r2 - 09 May 2011 - 20:42 by ShawnMcKee
FTSChannelMgmt
FTS Channel Management Instructions The FTS channels for AGLT2 and be managed using the glite software. You will need an ATLAS VOMS production role (voms proxy i...
r2 - 09 May 2011 - 20:42 by ShawnMcKee
PCacheInstall
Installing pCache and LSM at AGLT2 We are interested in setting up both a Local Site Mover (LSM) and pCache on our worker nodes. The goals are: * Reduce the I...
r2 - 03 May 2011 - 23:12 by ShawnMcKee
DetailsMultipathConf
Details on Configuring the /etc/multipath.conf for our Nexsan Setup The multipath v2 d with our configuration gives: root@umfs03 ~ # multipath v2 d create: m...
r2 - 30 Apr 2011 - 17:56 by ShawnMcKee
Subversion
Subversion Subversion is a software revision control system designed to be an improvement on CVS. It generally replicates the features of CVS. References * T...
r31 - 22 Feb 2011 - 17:42 by TomRockwell
NetworkPlanning
Planning for the production network. NetworkHardwareInfo Near term To Do List Here is a list of network related items that need doing as of February 4, 2011: ...
r25 - 22 Feb 2011 - 03:52 by RoyHockett
NewdCacheHeadNodesJan11
Creation of New dCache Headnodes (Dell R610) in January 2011 As part of our Fall 2010 procurements we purchased 2 Dell R610 nodes to host the dCache services (he...
NEW - 17 Jan 2011 - 15:34 by ShawnMcKee
HowToUpgradeStorage
Upgrading dcache storage hardware This is a procedure to follow when you don't wish to create a new pool but instead copy an old one to new hardware and have it o...
r3 - 17 Dec 2010 - 19:37 by ShawnMcKee
SetupLVSdCap
Setting up LVS (Linux Virtual Server) for use with dCap Newer linux kernels have LVS built in (as well as our UltraLight kernels). See http://kb.linuxvirtualserv...
NEW - 02 Dec 2010 - 20:07 by ShawnMcKee
WebLeftBarExample
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NEW - 09 Nov 2010 - 20:07 by ProjectContributor
BladeChassisSetup
Details of common settings for the CMC on a Dell Blade Chassis are shown via screen shots in the attached MS Word document. Note that power supplies on the chassi...
r2 - 09 Nov 2010 - 16:39 by BobBall
MigratingToNewOST
Migrating files to newly added OST so as to balance content It is desirable to distribute access over as many Lustre OSS as possible, so when a new OSS umdist04.a...
r4 - 11 Sep 2010 - 00:24 by BobBall
AddingAnOSS
Adding New OSS to Lustre Below are the steps needed to add a new OSS (storage server) to Lustre * Install or re purpose an SL5.5 node * Update all BIOS/Firm...
r3 - 02 Sep 2010 - 19:19 by ShawnMcKee
CommonPandaErrors
The following is a brief list of common errors found on the Panda production and analysis monitoring pages. All errors that are generally the fault of AGLT2 are n...
r2 - 12 Jul 2010 - 19:42 by SethLevine
r2 - 09 Jul 2010 - 19:54 by SethLevine
MSUInfraMonConfig
Room/Site Infrastructure Monitoring at MSU Liebert Air Handlers The two Liebert System/3 Air Handler units have Intellislot Web / 485 cards. See: * http://ww...
r5 - 17 Jun 2010 - 04:27 by TomRockwell
AddFilestoSpaceToken
Adding Files to Space Token Areas To add files already in dCache to space token areas we need to do a number of things: * Create a new space token to hold the ...
r2 - 01 Jun 2010 - 20:19 by ShawnMcKee
CfengineExample
Configuring a simple routing change with cfengine 2 for linux Unfortunately, this is one of those "not very portable" things that other config management tool adv...
r2 - 24 May 2010 - 17:11 by BenMeekhof
RocksAvalancheHack
lighttpd service is running on client during install. it matches URLs that have HOST == 127.0.0.1. Then does a redirect of "/install/(. )$" = rocks by.py?filena...
NEW - 11 May 2010 - 03:28 by TomRockwell
PgBenchSSD
pgbench comparison of SSD and Raid 1 array http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/pgbench.html SSD: 160GB INTEL SSDSA2MH160G1GN rev 045C8820 RAID 1: Pe...
NEW - 06 May 2010 - 17:16 by BenMeekhof
LustreReinstall
Lustre Reinstall Notes After testing Lustre "in production" (mostly tests by Tiesheng) we have decided to go ahead with our plans to utilize Lustre to replace the...
r4 - 21 Apr 2010 - 11:27 by ShawnMcKee
HASetup
High Available Lustre MDS failover nodes with Redhat cluster tools Background: The Lustre Meta Data Server is integral to using Lustre. If it is not available...
r3 - 06 Apr 2010 - 18:45 by BenMeekhof
FormatLustreMDT
Formatting the Lustre MDT Filesystem Main.ShawnMcKee 25 Mar 2010
NEW - 25 Mar 2010 - 21:26 by ShawnMcKee
ISCSILinuxRDAC
Setup and Configuration of iSCSI/RDAC on LMD01/02 Main.ShawnMcKee 25 Mar 2010
NEW - 25 Mar 2010 - 21:25 by ShawnMcKee
IPAddresses
AGLT2 IP Addresses Information on IP addresses for the Tier2 For detail list of IPs at MSU see ask Tom for msu ips.ods or see configs/msu/network/msu ips.csv For ...
r11 - 25 Mar 2010 - 15:35 by TomRockwell
GangliaIostatPlugin
Monitor Disk Activity with iostat and Ganglia The iostat utility from the sysstat package provides information about disk operations and throughput. It works in ...
NEW - 25 Mar 2010 - 01:54 by TomRockwell
TrackTransfersTodCache
Track Transfers to dCache Just some quick notes on tracking specific transfers to dCache. * First, make sure the SRM logging is verbose enough (going to catali...
NEW - 12 Mar 2010 - 18:10 by ShawnMcKee
R53abMSURXX
How msurxx was setup Create config files in SVN In the ROCKS SVN repo, below hostconfigs, copy msurxii.aglt2.org to msurxx.aglt2.org. Checkout (nominal location...
r4 - 15 Feb 2010 - 19:59 by TomRockwell
R5abFileServer
Introduction A prototype build of a file server in Rocks 5 is described, along with caveats and difficulties. In this instance, the file server is destined to be...
r2 - 15 Feb 2010 - 15:08 by BobBall
Rocks5AsBuilt
ROCKS 5.3 * R53abMSURXX Setup of msurxx * R5abFileServer Building a file server and configuring with cfengine * UMRocksiSetup Taking umrocksi.aglt2.org f...
r10 - 15 Feb 2010 - 05:40 by TomRockwell
NewdCacheNodes
Procedure to Migrate dCache headnodes (head01/head02.aglt2.org) to new hardware and operating system. During fall 2009 and winter 2010, AGLT2 is migrating all lin...
r15 - 12 Feb 2010 - 01:27 by ShawnMcKee
TestingNewStorageBuild
Testing of New dCache Storage Node Build Here is the testing result for a new storage node (summary: it works). After running \x91install_dcache.sh\x92 on UMFS16...
NEW - 10 Feb 2010 - 20:47 by ShawnMcKee
R5abSvn
Frontend Config in SVN Have a scheme to track frontend config in SVN. A directory structure is created at /var/svn, below here modified configurations are copied....
r8 - 09 Feb 2010 - 02:42 by TomRockwell
UpgradeSL
Updating umrocksi.aglt2.org to the most recent SL5.4 rpm set Following is a description of the process followed to ready a Rocks 5.3 client node built with the SL...
NEW - 05 Feb 2010 - 16:12 by BobBall
AthenaOnCondor
Intro A simple example of how to get Condor to run Athena jobs. Submitting a Simple Fastsim Job Transform Make a file called test.cmd. This sets up the basic co...
r5 - 19 Jan 2010 - 22:17 by CharlieMueller
RocksPuppet
Install on Frontend Setup EPEL yum repo On test ROCKS5 frontend, install puppet server from EPEL repo. Note that redhat.com is not reachable from aglt2.org. But...
r2 - 18 Jan 2010 - 21:15 by TomRockwell
R5abRouting
ROCKS 5 Routing ROCKS 5 has a flexible scheme for setting routing rules. Similar to the attribute scheme, routes can be set on a global, OS, appliance and host l...
r6 - 21 Dec 2009 - 20:21 by TomRockwell
R5abFrontendConfig
Configuring the Frontends Record of configuration done to frontends. Updated Dec 16th for msurx build. Connecting You can ssh to the frontend as root to perform...
r11 - 18 Dec 2009 - 20:50 by TomRockwell
R5abHostConfigSvn
Host Configs in SVN Have modified host config files tracked in SVN. Also have ROCKS DB entries tracked. Pull these out and put on the frontend. Storage area We...
NEW - 18 Dec 2009 - 20:48 by TomRockwell
R5abFrontendInstall
Installing the Frontends The frontends are installed on VMware clients. Note that you must have a valid resolvable IP address and name or the install will fail. ...
r7 - 18 Dec 2009 - 15:26 by PhilippeLaurens
D3PDMaker
SingleTopDPDMaker This page is aiming at presenting a tool producing D3PDs (TTrees) and D2PDs for analyses within the Athena framework. The SingleTopDPDMaker tool...
NEW - 08 Dec 2009 - 19:23 by CharlieMueller
GangliaSetup
Ganglia See: * http://ganglia.info/ * http://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/comp/sofi/tools/ganglia * http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/WikiPtype/g...
r12 - 01 Dec 2009 - 00:51 by TomRockwell
HowToAddNewPoolsToChimera
LOST all my edits by a key sequence...(from Emacs)... * First read dCache book for info: http://www.dcache.org/manuals/Book/start/in install.shtml http://www....
NEW - 19 Nov 2009 - 20:11 by ShawnMcKee
HowToAddNewPoolsToDcache
How To Add New Pools to Dcache This page is obsolete for dCache/Chimera. See HowToAddNewPoolsToChimera instead. On our existing dcache system ,I add some New ...
r11 - 19 Nov 2009 - 19:34 by ShawnMcKee
DellPC6248Reformat
PC6248 Reformat Note that using the command show dir seems be a good stress test. Even switches that pass the check disk commands below can fail running the show...
r4 - 17 Nov 2009 - 18:21 by TomRockwell
RocksFiveTwoInstallFromScratch
First begin by installing your Frontend by following the directions in the Rocks users guide, make sure you include the service pack roll, as it's required and fi...
r5 - 13 Nov 2009 - 20:58 by BobBall
R5abAddingHosts
Re Adding to Database If a host needs to be re added to the database (it was erased, or the front end is being rebuilt), get the host info from SVN. root@msurxi ...
NEW - 13 Nov 2009 - 15:29 by TomRockwell
R5abVMWareFrontEnd
VMware Hosting of Frontend Wish to run the frontends in VMware ESXi. The primary benefit is server consolidation. This also provides a good way to make a full b...
r2 - 11 Nov 2009 - 03:41 by TomRockwell
DellPC6248SNMP
Power Connect SNMP Lots of info is available via SNMP from the PowerConnects. References * http://wiki.xdroop.com/space/snmp/Switching Tables * http://for...
r4 - 31 Oct 2009 - 05:21 by TomRockwell
RocksTestFrontend
Test Frontend Wish to be able to separate production and test use of frontend. The idea is that the normal production frontend can be maintained with a well defi...
NEW - 28 Oct 2009 - 02:40 by TomRockwell
UsingAtlasSoftware
Intro This is a guide for using Athena on the Tier 3 that all users should follow. Useful webpages: * ATLAS computing workbook * nice introdution, a bit ol...
r9 - 22 Oct 2009 - 17:51 by JamesKoll
Tier3ForBeginners
0. Useful webpages This webpage is a mix between a tutorial and reference. If you are just interested in a quick overview of useful condor commands, just google "...
r19 - 22 Oct 2009 - 17:27 by JamesKoll
r6 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
r4 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
XCatCluster
Introduction xCAT is a cluster management tool originally developed at IBM and now Open Source. xCAT v1 was rewritten with much of the same functionality but a n...
r4 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
UMHardwareCatalog
UM Hardware Inventory 2268 Randall Manufacturer Model Name Model Number Lot Number Part Number Serial Number Capacity Type Seagate ST13640...
r11 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
UMspecificTasks
AGL UM Tasks Main.ChipBrock 14 Aug 2006
r3 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
UpdatingLFC
Updating LFC for AGLT2 The LFC host for AGLT2 is lfc.aglt2.org. This is a VMware VM (SL5.2/x86_64). As of September 13, 2009 the LFC software was installed in /...
r3 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
UpgradeUMFS01
On December 23, 2005 I "upgraded" umfs01.grid.umich.edu from the i686 (32 bit) version of Scientific Linux 4.1 to the x86_64 (64 bit) version of Scientific Linux ...
r3 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
VirtuozzoInfo
Virtuozzo Information and HowTo We have been testing Virtuozzo on our new virtualization hardware. Virtuozzo runs multiple "servers" on a host system, sharing t...
r23 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
r4 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
SystemInstallChecklist
System Install Checklist (UM Systems) Attached to this document is a tarball containing reasonable examples, many of which can probably be used with no modificati...
r14 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
Tier2OSG_V160
Installation Details for VDT v1.6.0 We are trying the VDT v1.6.0 installation on gate01.grid.umich.edu following instructions at the VDT 1.6.0 release note page. ...
r11 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
Tier2Planning
AGL Tier2 Planning List * Hardware acquisition * Storage * Workstations * Testbed block. * Backup * Network equipment ...
r4 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
Tier2Policy
AGLT2 Account and Resource Policy In order to meet the requirements placed upon our Tier2 we are implementing a GUMS/VOMS/PRIMA configuration (so called "Full Pri...
r7 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
TroubleLogs
Trouble Atlas Atlas Analysis Job mishandled OSG APP Paul, Bob, OSG_APP should be "/atlas/data08/OSG/APP". "atlas_app/atlas_rel" are subdirectory created when i...
r4 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
TrunkingEthOnComputeNodes
Setups taken from bl 13 1 when it was set up as an interactive machine root@bl 13 1 network scripts # cat ifcfg eth0 (This NIC is NOT trunked) DEVICE=eth0 HWAD...
r3 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
UMClusterOverview
Michigan Computers Overview The Michigan computer cluster consists of several interactive machines, and 2 condor batch queue clusters. Here is the current list ...
r24 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
SoftwareRequests
Running ATLAS software on SLC43 x86_64 We had installed the mars01.cern.ch mars05.cern.ch systems with SLC43 and an experimental kernel. Though we could install ...
r5 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
SoftwareTutorials
ATLAS Software Tutorials Introduction This is a listing of tutorials for using the ATLAS Software. When possible, tutorials specific to usage on the G...
r5 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
SolarisOnPE2950
Solaris Installation notes A lot of this was compiled and figured out via extensive reading of this forum. There are a number of confusions and misleading direct...
r5 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
StatusBlog
May 2008 Main.TomRockwell 08 May 2008
r3 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
RunningATLASSoftware
Setup and Running ATLAS Software (from Ed Diehl email) I have found in the past that the validation scripts have errors themselves, or there are other obscure pro...
r7 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
SecurityMonitoring
Security Monitoring: Setup and Configuration * Snort setup information and configuration * Syslog ng setup for AGLT2 * SEC setup and configuration usin...
r3 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
SensatronicsTempProbe
See http://www.sensatronics.com/index.php/industrial monitors/model e4.html Need to connect using serial port to make IP configuration. It has a web server and ...
r3 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
ServiceInfo
Tier2 Services at UM Services for Tier2 job submission and remote monitoring are distributed across several physical machines at UM. Below is a breadown of what ...
r16 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
SetupGSSklog
Installing gssklog/gssklogd on our cluster We have user home spaces (including grid "group" accounts) in our AFS cell (atlas.umich.edu). Currently any user tryi...
r5 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
ShoppingList
This page keeps a "shopping list" of needed equipment and parts as well as a reference for suppliers. Add items with a date. When items are purchased, please ma...
r5 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
OracleUpdate
Oracle Upgrade from 10.2.0.2 to 10.2.0.3 Prior to installing the Rome muon calibration DB for replication we needed to update our Oracle installation. I received...
r14 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
PNFSVerificationSQL
Useful PNFS/Chimera SQL Queries NOTE: This page assumes you are running Chimera/PNFS rather than the older PNFS from dCache 1.8.x or earlier. First query: Fix PN...
r5 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
PerfSonar
perfSONAR * http://www.perfsonar.net/ * http://code.google.com/p/perfsonar ps/wiki/NPToolkitQuickStart * based on http://www.knoppix.net/ distro Node Info...
r8 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
RemoteAccess
* SwitchAccess including how to find where a node is on the network * NodeConsoleAccess Including via KVM and IPMI/DRAC * NodePowerControl including PDUs an...
r6 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
NetworkTesting
Network Testing and Debugging for AGLT2 During the last year we have seen many indications that all is not right with our network connections to BNL (and perhaps ...
r4 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
NetworkTuning
Network Tuning and Testing On September 18, 2007 Dimitri Katramatos, Kunal Shroff and Shawn McKee tried to test and tune the following machines at BNL and Michiga...
r9 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
OSGSetup
The content below was copied from the OSG install Twiki page on June 5, 2006. This was done to allow us to use this Twiki to record install details for our OSG i...
r6 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
OSGSetup080
Upgrade of OSG to 0.8.0 References * https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/twiki/bin/view/ReleaseDocumentation/WebHome Preparation Shutdown services? Doing Install Sinc...
r4 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
OracleInstall
Setting up Oracle on Linux The following documents the installation and setup of Oracle at the University of Michigan for use by the ATLAS Muon Calibration and Al...
r12 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
OracleMuonDB
Installing Updated Muon Calibration Schema New schema was made available in early February 2008. Since the changes were significant I totally removed the origin...
r5 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
MsuOsgPolicy
MSU OSG OSG site information and policy. Currently the MSU OSG site is 100% allocated to "SAMGrid" processing for the DZero Experiment. An SRM/dCache v2.2 SE is l...
r7 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
NDTInstallation
Installation of NDT on ndt.aglt2.org See also Patrick McGuigan's page at NDTInstallation. Installation overview (more details below) 1. Applied the web100 ker...
r10 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
NetworkHardware
AGL NetworkHardware Main.ChipBrock 14 Aug 2006
r3 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
MSURackSetup
Rack Setup Compute Rack Parts APC ???? APC ???? APC ???? 2 Dell PC6248 Switches ??? cables ??? cables ??? powercords Setup Details * Install network switches ...
r3 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
MSUSetupRackPDU
for big three phase PDUs The rearmost PDU is 1. In these racks the rearmost PDU is inverted (its cord comes out the top). * place label like "MAC 00:00:00:00...
r5 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
MSUToDo
Nov 2008 T2 Hardware Things that can happen whenever: * configure PDUs power strips * install power cords to PDUs * label needed network cables * get ...
r4 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
MSUUtilNode
pe2950 Utility Node Install Have a pe2950 with 2x 250GB drive and 4x 750 GB drives. Want to set it up to support a variety of cluster services including running ...
r10 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
MaintenanceIssues
Logs by hostname OldLogs AGLT2 sw1 umfs10 DracResets dc 3 29 dc2 4 15 dc 2 33 dc 2 32 umfs04 head01 dc 2 29 umopt1.gri...
r24 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
InstallOSG060
Installation of OSG 0.6.0 on gate01.aglt2.org The installation procedure for OSG 0.6.0 on gate01.aglt2.org is below. It was installed on April 2nd, 2007. Please...
r28 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
JobSubMission
* SubmitTestJobInPanda Main.WenjingWu 12 Aug 2008
r3 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
LFCverificationSQL
LFC SQL Queries Below are some potentially useful SQL queries to check the status of the LFC. These are my test queries and I don't guarantee they are correct ...
r9 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
LinksPage
Tier2 Links Please add links/bookmarks for Tier2 related sites. Atlas * http://www.usatlas.bnl.gov/ US Atlas * http://www.usatlas.bnl.gov/computing/grid/ U...
r8 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
MSUDZeroOsg
See also: * MSUDZeroOsgSE about the storage element * MSUDZeroOsgStartup Restarting the system * MSUDZeroOsgTests Testing the OSG site * MSUDZeroOsgJo...
r36 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
MSUHardwareCatalog
MSU Hardware Catalog This page lists hardware at MSU. Subpages provide more details and link to hardware documentation. Rack View * WesternSciRack2005 The ra...
r3 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
DqTwoInstallNotesSept2006
Installing DQ2 References * https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/Atlas/PandaDataService Procedure Shawn created a host cert from doegrids.org for umfs02.grid...
r7 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
DualGatekeepers
Setting up Two OSG Gatekeepers for a Single Condor Cluster We need to load balance access to our Condor cluster because of a possible time out issue we are seeing...
r8 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
FOMeetingInfo
Dear Atlas US grid participant: REMINDER The next USATLAS Facilities and Operations phone meeting will occur Wed 1200 1330 CDT This is a reminder about a c...
r5 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
GramAuditing
Setup of GRAM Auditing for AGLT2 (OSG 0.8.1) The current OSG installation (0.8.1) has Globus 4.0.5 which supports a new "auditing" feature. You can request that ...
r6 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
DCachetoSyslogNG
(Re)Configuring the log4j.properties in dCache to output to Syslog At AGLT2 we have setup a central loghost running syslog ng which also has a php syslog ng web i...
r3 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
DataManagement
Just starting this out... Tom, May 21 Data Storage Locations What locations are in use and how they are used. We have a number of storage locations for AGLT2: ...
r7 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
DellCactiSetup
Cacti Setup for Dell Nodes The Dell PE1950 and PE2950 nodes have a large number of fans and temperature probes which are not exposed via SNMP. The presents a pro...
r5 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
DellPowerEdgeXNineFifty
Dell Poweredge x950 Hardware Notes Information about the Dell 1950 and 2950 nodes. Dell Docs BIOS The Fall '07 order arrived with BIOS v1.5.1. This was release...
r9 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
DellStorageMain
DellServerMD1000Provisioning DriveReplacementMD1000 replacing a failed drive BenchmarkingMsufs04 RecoverDrivesInForeignConfigState Building megaraid_sas driver R...
r8 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
ClusterChanges
MSU 2008 May BNX2 DKMS Ganglia Found that the existing bnx2 network driver was the cause of the large spikes in the ganglia network plots. It intermittently pu...
r4 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
CookBook
If a line starts with $ it is a command to be run as a normal user, if it starts with # it is a command to be run as root. * $ cd /net/data07/tests/stress_test/ ...
r13 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
AfsBuildKernelModule
Download openafs kernel source rpm and install on build system. The SRPM from https://linat05.grid.umich.edu/pub/SLC/4x/custom/SRPMS/openafs 1.4.6 1.1_AGLT2.src....
r6 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
AutoTestPrograms
Auto Test Programs over AGLT2 Cluster Related PNFS mount point test Purpose Make sure every computer node has "/pnfs/aglt2.org" mounted , and every gridftp door ...
r3 - 16 Oct 2009 - 20:14 by TomRockwell
RocksDiskPartitioning
In ROCKS5 whole new scheme for user customization of partitioning. The annoyances with getting custom partitioning done in ROCKS4 seem to be gone we no longer ne...
r5 - 12 Oct 2009 - 17:47 by BobBall
MergeSpaceTokens
Merging Existing Space Tokens When we setup space tokens for AGLT2 we assumed we needed a space token for each VO/Role that needed to be able to write to a space ...
r2 - 09 Oct 2009 - 13:57 by ShawnMcKee
RocksFaq
ROCKS FAQs Introduction FAQs are divided into groups... Database management using ROCKS command Add an appliance This will add new entries in the membership an...
r10 - 08 Oct 2009 - 10:58 by TomRockwell
RocksGraph
ROCKS Graphs Default graph in ROCKS52 Initial new AGL graph structure in ROCKS52 How To make them View on frontend web page (under "misc admin"), or... rocks lis...
NEW - 26 Sep 2009 - 13:06 by TomRockwell
SettingUpATLASHOTDISK
Setting up ATLAS Area HOTDISK for AGLT2 As of mid September 2009 we need to provide a new space token area in Tiers of ATLAS call 'HOTDISK'. There are a few com...
r3 - 19 Sep 2009 - 18:45 by ShawnMcKee
DCacheRepHot
RepHot for dCache configuration file default path : /opt/rep_hot/config/rephot.conf VERBOSE=1 ## increase it from more detailed log file DEBUG=0 #...
r2 - 19 Sep 2009 - 18:39 by ShawnMcKee
RocksUpdateInstallKernel
Update Installer Kernel Warning this is a cludge. Darn seems to work fine with the r610 hardware, but on the existing pe1950s, hardisk doesn't get mounted for rei...
r2 - 11 Sep 2009 - 04:19 by TomRockwell
RocksFiveTwoManualAddNode
To manually add a node in Rocks v5.2 you only really need two commands provided that the appliance type already exists, you could check that it's in the list when...
r3 - 10 Sep 2009 - 05:49 by TomRockwell
RocksInstaller
ROCKS Installer This page is a description of how the ROCKS installer boots, how it requests the kickstart file for the node, how the server generates the kicksta...
r2 - 10 Sep 2009 - 03:31 by TomRockwell
XCatMSUInstall
Installing Follow the Install chapter of "Top Document" xCAT2top.pdf xCAT is installed with the command: yum install xCAT (There's some stuff to do before and aft...
NEW - 05 Sep 2009 - 05:45 by TomRockwell
MSUDZeroOsgSE
Storage Element An SRM/dCache instance is added to the site as a grid accessible Storage Element. dCache is a very flexible package for combining multiple filesy...
r40 - 18 Aug 2009 - 05:00 by TomRockwell
Rocks52Links
Useful Rocks Links * Rocks v5.2 User Guide the User Guide... * Kickstart XML Reference Just remember that the "var" tag no longer works and that we use...
NEW - 13 Aug 2009 - 22:06 by JamesWright
Rocks52CrossKickstarting
Well, I haven't actually done it, but here's the directions. Just reverse the architectures since we're running a x86_64 cluster and are going to be kickstarting ...
NEW - 13 Aug 2009 - 21:59 by JamesWright
Rocks52Commands
To build the rocks distribution (in /home/install/ or /export/rocks/install/): rocks create distro To have a node reinstall: rocks set host boot hostname action...
NEW - 13 Aug 2009 - 21:56 by JamesWright
PandaTools
Client tools for Panda Analysis jobs Intro The panda client package contains following tools to submit/manage analysis jobs on PanDA. The following instructions...
r4 - 07 Aug 2009 - 15:37 by BobBall
InstallVMwareRCLI
Install notes Install the 64 bit perl package first. = root@msurox /tmp tar zxf VMware VIPerl 1.6.0 104313.x86_64.tar.gz = root@msurox /tmp ./vmware viperl d...
r2 - 30 Jun 2009 - 02:14 by TomRockwell
AtlasSoftware
ATLAS Software PLEASE READ FIRST: This is a guide to installing and using Atlas software of the Tier3. It is for reference for Administrators only. If you need a ...
r11 - 26 Jun 2009 - 14:58 by CharlieMueller
MSUVMwareBackups
Backing up and moving VMs If the VM is running you need to pull a snapshot and backup, otherwise the .vmdk may not be consistent. Spaces in VM names for some back...
r2 - 24 Jun 2009 - 19:00 by TomRockwell
ManagementofDcache
Management of Dcache main services to maintain head01 : dcache core head02: postgresql pnfs dcache core pool nodes: dcache core dcache pool main configurati...
r11 - 24 Jun 2009 - 15:10 by BenMeekhof
RocksCrossKickstarting
Cross Kickstarting in Rocks 4.3 So you want to cross Kickstart nodes that aren't the same architecture as your front end? Don't worry, rocks can do that, or it's ...
r2 - 23 Jun 2009 - 20:10 by JamesWright
AglT2MonitComputeSummary
Monitoring: AGLT2 Compute Summary Page The initial idea was to simply extract and rearrange some lines of the HTML Ganglia page for the MSU site, in order to reor...
NEW - 04 Jun 2009 - 17:00 by PhilippeLaurens
RocksTools
Directory /home/install/tools under SVN control. Directory /home/install/tools/bin intended for adding to PATH as desired. Main.TomRockwell 29 May 2009
NEW - 29 May 2009 - 17:23 by TomRockwell
HowToUpgradeDcache
Procedure for Installing or Upgrading dCache Servers Procedure for installing dCache servers. This is tested for use on the dCache storage nodes / gridftp doors....
r5 - 28 May 2009 - 20:02 by TomRockwell
UpgradeDcacheConfigDetails
gridftpdoorSetup file base line changes. Desired are set with java_options=" server Xmx512m XX:MaxDirectMemorySize=512m \ Dsun.net.ine...
NEW - 28 May 2009 - 19:37 by TomRockwell
RemovingPNFSGhosts
Removing PNFS (Chimera) Ghosts There is the possibility that the chimera DB can become out of sync with the actual files stored on disk. The t_dirs table holds t...
r2 - 22 May 2009 - 23:08 by ShawnMcKee
MSUDZeroOsgStartup
Restarting the MSU OSG Grid How to restart the system after an outage. Bring Up and Check Services Cluster Services General cluster services are required, for in...
r12 - 19 May 2009 - 16:50 by TomRockwell
RecoverDrivesInForeignConfigState
Background Info: Unexpected Power Loss on file servers During backup generator test on 12 may 09 at the MSU BPS bldg , most UPSs received an errant EPO (Emergenc...
r3 - 15 May 2009 - 20:49 by PhilippeLaurens
UpgradeHead01Postgres
Upgrade Postgres on AGLT2 dCache ADMIN node During our recent upgrade of dCache we also ended up upgrading our Postgres installation on the dCache PNFS node (head...
r4 - 10 May 2009 - 00:57 by ShawnMcKee
ReconfgPlazma
(Re)Configuration of gPlazma on AGLT2 Due to issues with SRM failing that were traced to probable issues in gPlazma we are planning to implement some changes to g...
NEW - 09 May 2009 - 17:38 by ShawnMcKee
SRMstopWorking
AGLT2 SRM Hangs Starting in late April 2009 AGLT2 was having more and more dCache/SRM issues. One problem that significantly increased in frequency was SRM faili...
NEW - 09 May 2009 - 16:39 by ShawnMcKee
UseCellAndModules
Reconfigure dCacheConfig to use both Cell and Module As noted before, the preferred gPlazma configuration uses the cell method but it has been pointed out that th...
NEW - 09 May 2009 - 16:17 by ShawnMcKee
DCacheUpgrade
Upgading dCache Starting on the morning of May 4th 2009 AGLT2 began upgrading from dCache 1.8.0 15p12 to 1.9.2.5 as well as migrating to Chimera. This was motiva...
NEW - 09 May 2009 - 15:50 by ShawnMcKee
ReplicateControl
Replicating the Oracle Controlfile For safety it is good to replicate the controlfile for an Oracle DB. Our muoncal instance (after reinstalling in May 2009)...
NEW - 05 May 2009 - 20:19 by ShawnMcKee
ReinstallOracle
Reinstallation of Oracle for the Muon Calibration Center On May 2nd, 2009 our primary Oracle server (umors.grid.umich.edu) was compromised because we had forgott...
r7 - 05 May 2009 - 19:51 by ShawnMcKee
HowToEditAFS
How to convert a RO volume to a RW volume in AFS 1) Get tokens as 'admin' via 'kinit admin' folllowed by 'aklog' 2) Check the mount: 'fs lsmount /afs/atlas.umi...
r3 - 08 Apr 2009 - 23:57 by WenjingWu
AssociateDirectoryToPools
How a associate a directory to certain pools user case: we need to designate certain pools for sc07,which means when we write data to a certain directory, data wi...
r7 - 08 Apr 2009 - 23:36 by WenjingWu
HowToSetUpATLASSpaceToken
Setup Atlas Space Token background details about why space revervation is needed, refer to srm space reservationdcache book. steps to set up space reservation ...
r10 - 08 Apr 2009 - 23:35 by WenjingWu
GetUpdatedAfterAddingNewSpaceToken
We have a bunch of scripts which relies on the space token information, therefore,I define 2 hash based subroutine in the dcache perl Library, everytime you add/r...
NEW - 08 Apr 2009 - 19:22 by WenjingWu
RocksGenericKickstart
Generic Kickstart Want to perform a network install of a node that won't be a ROCKS client but using the ROCKS frontend as the kickstart server. Have tried and f...
r3 - 25 Mar 2009 - 19:36 by TomRockwell
VMWareTesting
Want to do test installs nodes in a VMWare ESXi guest. Expect that more things can be made to work similarly to an install on a physical host, but expect that th...
r6 - 20 Mar 2009 - 15:38 by TomRockwell
DcacheTroubeShooting
Dcache TroubleShooting Case 1.. node c 104 2 has some broken files which mean the md5sum of local file doesnt match the md5sum of source file.. we decided to rec...
r8 - 16 Mar 2009 - 16:12 by WenjingWu
RocksSubversion
Managing the ROCKS Installer with Subversion See local subversion pages at Subversion Creating a Branch or Tag SVN root@msurox /home/install # svn copy m "c...
NEW - 23 Feb 2009 - 01:49 by TomRockwell
CleanProddisk
We are using charles's proddisk_clean.py to clean our proddisk regularly.. 1 login dq2.aglt2.org as dq2 2.setup the env. export LFC_HOST=lfc.aglt2.org source /a...
NEW - 16 Feb 2009 - 17:53 by WenjingWu
HowToSetupBerkeleyDBforPoolMetadata
Here is from an email: In dCacheSetup (in Aglt2, it is poolSetup)you need to define: metaDataRepositoryImport=org.dcache.pool.repository.meta.file.FileMetaDataRe...
NEW - 12 Feb 2009 - 16:01 by WenjingWu
RecoverCrashedNode
MSU Hummm... Normal procedure is to plug keyboard/monitor into node and see if there are any kernel messages on screen. On Dells also note errors from LCD. U M ...
NEW - 10 Feb 2009 - 20:29 by TomRockwell
NodePowerControl
MSU Each rack has 2 PDUs named PDU RACKNUM N.msulocal where N is 1 or 2. For racks with UPSs, the 1 PDU is on the UPS. You can connect to the web interface usin...
r2 - 10 Feb 2009 - 20:21 by TomRockwell
SwitchAccess
MSU Two switches are at msu sw1.local and msu sw2.local. To find a given node's switch ports(s): Option 1 access the switch web interface and browse for the port ...
r2 - 10 Feb 2009 - 19:13 by BenMeekhof
MuonVP1
ATLAS Software Installing and Running VP1 (Release 14.5.1) Author: Steven Goldfarb \ Steve's Notes: Athena \ VP1 \ DQ2 Introduction This is a s...
r5 - 06 Feb 2009 - 09:35 by SteveGoldfarb
CXCables
11/13/2007 Replaced Dell cables with Gore cables on the following machines after seeing physical link counters increase: umfs07,umfs09,umfs10,umfs11 1/25/2008...
r20 - 02 Feb 2009 - 20:20 by TomRockwell
ConsistencyWorkAferLosingAnode
What To Do after losing the dcache partions of a Node? Due to the rocks rebuilding failures. dcache partitions could be wiped during the rebuilding, thus we have ...
NEW - 30 Jan 2009 - 22:35 by WenjingWu
SECSetup
SEC.pl (System Event Correlator) There is a nice two part article on SEC which describes how it works and what it provides. I encourage you to look it over. Th...
NEW - 28 Jan 2009 - 18:19 by ShawnMcKee
MSUDZeroOsgUpdate
Updating the OSG version using VDT installer Process * no running jobs * disable gatekeeper * install new pacman * shuffle osg mounts * install new...
r3 - 19 Dec 2008 - 21:57 by TomRockwell
MuonReco
ATLAS Software Muon Cosmic Data Reconstruction Tutorial Authors: Tiesheng Dai and Steven Goldfarb \ BU Workshop : Home \ Agenda \ Slides for Deta...
r12 - 19 Dec 2008 - 19:10 by SteveGoldfarb
LustreAtAglt2
Lustre At Aglt2 Lustre Deployment MDS(metadata Server) we have a failover pair of metadata servers,lmd01 and lmd02, both servers can access the same device (/...
NEW - 15 Dec 2008 - 23:02 by WenjingWu
MSUDZeroOsgJobs
Monitoring D0 Jobs Samgrid monitoring is at http://samgrid.fnal.gov:8080/ The list of resent jobs for the samgrid scheduler that is used for MSU jobs is here. Jo...
r2 - 01 Dec 2008 - 20:25 by TomRockwell
MSUDZeroOsgTests
Testing That OSG Site is Functional Central tests OSG centrally tests all sites a few time a day. * List of all sites * Current result for MSU OSG * C...
r5 - 17 Nov 2008 - 04:57 by TomRockwell
MacOSXTftp
See http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070218233806794 Main.TomRockwell 13 Nov 2008
NEW - 13 Nov 2008 - 00:21 by TomRockwell
DellServerProposedLabeling
*What* Cable / Shelf Labels Position Controller ID Controller PCI Slot Connector VDisk ID Enclosure ID Device Name vdisk filesystem *Mount Poi...
NEW - 30 Oct 2008 - 16:59 by TomRockwell
DellServerMD1000Provisioning
Provisioning the Dell 2950/MD1000 Storage Servers Recipe for getting a new PE2950 and MD1000 combination going as an fss nfs appliance in our ROCKS cluster. Refer...
r23 - 30 Oct 2008 - 16:46 by TomRockwell
VaccumPgsqlDB
How to Vacuum Postgresql DB sometimes, when too many deletion or updating opereations happened to the postgresql database, it would run into a transactionid probl...
NEW - 27 Sep 2008 - 17:49 by WenjingWu
RocksStyleGuide
ROCKS Kickstart XML Style Guide and How To The kickstart XML and the accompanying scripts (extras directory) specify much of the configuration for nodes on our cl...
r2 - 09 Sep 2008 - 04:13 by TomRockwell
PatchSet10204
See https://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/f?p=130:14:3681850522787148914::::p14_database_id,p14_docid,p14_show_header,p14_show_help,p14_black_frame,p14_font:...
NEW - 03 Sep 2008 - 14:26 by ShawnMcKee
SubmitTestJobInPanda
How to submit test jobs in panda from umt3 interactive nodes 1 get permission to access BNL CVS BNL CVS is a mirror to Cern CVS, it is a readonly CVS, you can us...
r2 - 12 Aug 2008 - 19:40 by WenjingWu
HowToRmPnfsDir
How To rename or RM pnfs dir Rename Just do the rename as the 'root' user. You will get the error message "mv: cannot move `xxx' to `yyy': Stale NFS fil...
NEW - 04 Aug 2008 - 17:50 by WenjingWu
OSGAccountSetup
OSG Account Setup To support OSG VOs we must setup UNIX user/group accounts for the VOs. We have done this for the AGLT2 sites (UMATLAS and AGLT2_UM) and have o...
r8 - 29 Jul 2008 - 18:40 by ShawnMcKee
Dc-2-32
02/29/2008 Dimm 2 alerting. Cleared alert. Has not returned as of 03/03/2008. Replaced anyways. First shipment of a single DIMM did not work (wrong brand to ...
r4 - 28 Jul 2008 - 18:33 by BenMeekhof
RocksMySQL
ROCKS MySQL Database ROCKS stores configuration information in a MySQL database. Normal operations on configuration are performed with the rocks command, but thi...
r9 - 09 Jul 2008 - 21:22 by TomRockwell
RebuildComputeNode
Procedure for rebuilding a compute node In general, compute node rebuilding is fairly easy and the ROCKS should be maintained so that compute nodes can be rebuild...
r9 - 09 Jul 2008 - 18:03 by TomRockwell
RocksRCSInfo
Using RCS in ROCKS and How ROCKS Uses RCS ROCKS uses RCS on files that are written or appended with the file tag in kickstart xml. This provides some possibili...
r15 - 01 Jul 2008 - 20:26 by TomRockwell
SecurityPlanning
Security Planning Config Changes to Tighten Security Ideas from June 26 meeting: * Firewall changes, see SystemInstallChecklist * See below...implement...
r3 - 30 Jun 2008 - 17:26 by ShawnMcKee
BenchmarkingMsufs04
Test date * Machine* * Cables* * Shelves* /dev * PCI slot* * pxi e* * CTRLR ID* * Array status* * Read* * Write* June ??? ??? ...
r4 - 13 Jun 2008 - 18:41 by TomRockwell
RocksBlox
ROCKS Node Info A feature that is weak or missing from ROCKS is a way to add user defined parameters on a per node basis. There is a mechanism for adding user de...
r9 - 06 Jun 2008 - 02:58 by TomRockwell
RocksAddNode
Manually Adding Nodes to Database The insert ethers command used to support manually adding nodes, it no longer does, however this can be performed using the rock...
r7 - 27 May 2008 - 02:56 by TomRockwell
RocksDirLayout
Rocks Directories Native Dir In SVN? Description /home/install no This gets NFS exported from the frontend to the cluster (and autmounted) /hom...
r4 - 21 May 2008 - 06:38 by TomRockwell
RocksTestServer
ROCKS Test Server Wish to have a second server on cluster to enable testing of new ROCKS configurations. It seems that it will be simpler to have an entirely sep...
NEW - 12 May 2008 - 06:20 by TomRockwell
GraphPlan
A Plan for the ROCKS Graph ROCKS Graphs ROCKS uses the Redhat Anaconda installer to do installs. Using the Anaconda installer provides many advantages: * It ...
r8 - 09 May 2008 - 21:01 by TomRockwell
RespondToDownNode
Node down in Ganglia If a node is down in ganglia do this (assumes ganglia config is ok...): * From frontend, ping private interface * OK: try ssh to nod...
r2 - 01 May 2008 - 03:02 by TomRockwell
DriveReplacementMD1000
Drive Replacement on the MD1000 Obviously, this needs some testing... A drive has failed and XFS got errors and took the filesystem offline. * unmounted filesy...
r2 - 29 Apr 2008 - 23:16 by TomRockwell
DCacheDatabaseToFilesystem
dCache Config Overview dCache from Database to Filesystem Below is a view of the chain of configuration for the dCache system starting with the PostgreSQL databa...
r16 - 18 Apr 2008 - 20:45 by TomRockwell
Sw1
04 10 2008 It sure did. Once again I put "usatlasgrid" in as public read only community and copied to startup config. Not much definite to say about it, but on...
NEW - 10 Apr 2008 - 20:23 by BenMeekhof
DracResets
A list to track when we are forced to completely shut off power to a DRAC card to reset it. Hopefully these are isolated incidents, possibly caused by firmware/BI...
NEW - 10 Apr 2008 - 16:56 by BenMeekhof
HowToEasyMoveDataFromPoolToPool
Easy Move dcache data from pool to pool UserCase we want to retire non resilient pool umfs07_2 from dcache which holds 1.7TB data,so we need to move these data t...
r3 - 05 Apr 2008 - 20:56 by WenjingWu
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