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 ...
Using TortoiseSVN with Putty/Pageant for SVN access to AGLT2 SVN server Prerequisites Install TortoiseSVN from http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads.html Setup putty a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Subversion Subversion is a software revision control system designed to be an improvement on CVS. It generally replicates the features of CVS. References * T...
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: ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Monitor Disk Activity with iostat and Ganglia The iostat utility from the sysstat package provides information about disk operations and throughput. It works in ...
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...
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...
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...
ROCKS 5.3 * R53abMSURXX Setup of msurxx * R5abFileServer Building a file server and configuring with cfengine * UMRocksiSetup Taking umrocksi.aglt2.org f...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
SingleTopDPDMaker This page is aiming at presenting a tool producing D3PDs (TTrees) and D2PDs for analyses within the Athena framework. The SingleTopDPDMaker tool...
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....
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Power Connect SNMP Lots of info is available via SNMP from the PowerConnects. References * http://wiki.xdroop.com/space/snmp/Switching Tables * http://for...
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...
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...
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 "...
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...
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 /...
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 ...
Virtuozzo Information and HowTo We have been testing Virtuozzo on our new virtualization hardware. Virtuozzo runs multiple "servers" on a host system, sharing t...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
Michigan Computers Overview The Michigan computer cluster consists of several interactive machines, and 2 condor batch queue clusters. Here is the current list ...
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 ...
ATLAS Software Tutorials Introduction This is a listing of tutorials for using the ATLAS Software. When possible, tutorials specific to usage on the G...
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...
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...
Security Monitoring: Setup and Configuration * Snort setup information and configuration * Syslog ng setup for AGLT2 * SEC setup and configuration usin...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
* SwitchAccess including how to find where a node is on the network * NodeConsoleAccess Including via KVM and IPMI/DRAC * NodePowerControl including PDUs an...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Installing Updated Muon Calibration Schema New schema was made available in early February 2008. Since the changes were significant I totally removed the origin...
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...
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...
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...
Nov 2008 T2 Hardware Things that can happen whenever: * configure PDUs power strips * install power cords to PDUs * label needed network cables * get ...
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 ...
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...