MinutesSitesDec13

Focus on OSG storage services - Bestman Alex Sim

dCache in OSG 1.0 and SRM 2.2 - Ted Hesselroth

Rob Gardner: How will it work when sites are using a mix of osg0.6, osg 0.8 and osg 1.0?

Ted Hesselroth: srmcp from dcache 1.7 should work with osg 1.0. as long as no srm 2.2 functionality is expected.

Validating dCache - Neha Sharma

Rob Gardner: Why do errors result in a java exception instead of a clean error?

Neha Sharma: This is a developer question.

AI: Talk to the developers about improving the error messages from srm and dcache. (Ted Hesselroth)

AI: Please capture an annotation of your demo, (Neha Sharma)

OSG documentation - Anne Heavey

AI: (Eileen Berman) Change OSG web site to have a 'Documentation' Link (currently reference material) (Anne Heavey)

AI: (Alain Roy) Side links are too many, not alphabetized (Anne Heavey) MT and I plan to attend a few activity meetings to get info on how people are doing with the links as they are, and what changes they'd like. By 1st wk Feb.

AI: (Alain Roy) Need to update vdt links on doc page. I think this was "home" page.

AI: (Alain Roy) Put out big links so public, or admins, etc know where to go (Anne Heavey) Admin link added; see 2nd item above.

AI: (Brian B) Need to make separate pages for admins, users, public. (Anne Heavey) We do not want to add more areas to the web presence. We want one home page for website, one for twiki. We'll continue to tweak navigation; see above.

AI: (Eileen Berman) Include in link text any common way of referring to the page, consistent terminology. (Anne Heavey)ongoing

AI: Add a dictionary of acronyms (Anne Heavey) Documentation/GlossaryOfTerms is available, contains many acronyms. If this is really needed or high priority, I need to know.

Anne Heavey: Everyone is encouraged to get a twiki account and edit the pages themselves.

AI: Call any release documentation as Install Guides (Anne Heavey)Done on doc hub and twiki left bars

AI: Use the canonical way of referring to something when possible even when that version is a little clunky, (consistent terminology). (Anne Heavey) ongoing

AI: Keep the physical size of list of links on the left side (orange bar) as small as can be. Makes more room for real info. (Anne Heavey) we're not changing the template at this time.

AI: Organization of meetings on indico needs work (Anne Heavey) still to address

AI: Presentation of calendar off of the front page needs work. (Anne Heavey) I do not have consensus for change; so we've left as is.

Focus on security: site practices - Mine Altunay

AI: (Brian B) Email policies as they change to site admins. Send email to site contacts periodically to check that they are still valid contacts. (Mine Altunay)

AI: The 24x7 security response expected is not possible especially for small sites. This needs to be looked at in general for OSG. (Mine Altunay)

AI: Need to make efficient availability of CRL's on a fairly short timescale (Mine Altunay)

AI: (Greg S) Should be a tool to let a site admin understand if a particular vulnerability exists at their site. This tool may be runnable by OSG centrally. This would be useful for dCache and CEs. (Mine Altunay)

Doug Benjamin: Need to keep in mind that not all sites are created equal. There are small sites and larger sites that will have different resources available.

Alain Roy: Perhaps sites would need to be temporarily removed during an incident.

AI: (Chris Green) Be able to warn users not to run on a site when there is an incident with the site. And vice-versa. This could be done by taking it out of ReSS? and BDII. (Rob Quick)

Rob Gardner: What are the expectations of the sites during security drills?

Kent Blackburn: Need acknowledgement from sites that they understand the expectations.

AI: Need to establish expectations of sites during security drills. (Mine Altunay)

AI: Need to add to registration an 'agree' button or something to confirm that sites have read and agreed to service agreement, security responsibilities etc. (Rob Quick)

AI: (Rob Gardner) Need front page link on OSG web to link to security information. (Anne Heavey)

AI: (Keith Chadwick) Policy link from doc link is old. What are the current policies? (Anne Heavey)

AI: (Doug B) Change Don Petravick as security officer to Mine Altunay (Anne Heavey)

AI: (Rob Gardner) Need to give security training for admins etc. Do not do during a parallel session at a consortium meeting. (Mine Altunay)

AI: (Brian B) Start a db of all admins and when they received security training. Then Mine can give updates by contacting people. (Mine Altunay)

AI: (Rob Quick) Summarize thoughts on security and send to osg-sites (Mine Altunay)

AI: Send out in email how to find out who is registered for your site. (Rob Quick)

Configuring OSG and the tools for OSG site administrators - Suchandra Thapa

Charles W.: In file where you put in job attributes that are put into the env can you change the path.

AI: (Michael T) Is there a way to use a text file as input to configure osg. There should be. (Suchandra)

AI: (Shreyas) In 0.6 configure, there is a globus hostname env variable, the hostname command is used, but not everyone listens to the setting of the variable. Is this fixed? I will test this. (Shreyas, then Suchandra)

Alain Roy: A web interface for configuring is not good. Last thing you want is a security issue here.

Workshop summary discussion

AI: Need to mention the action items at the EB (Alain R)

AI: Send out email to those who have action items assigned (Rob Gardner)