MinutesVTBJun12

Introduction

• Attendees: John R, Jeff, Rob, Suchandra, Brian
• Apologies: none
• Coordinates: Tuesday, 3:30pm Central; 510-665-5437, #1212
• Previous meetings, MinutesVTBJun5
• Background
  • WSGramValidation060, and WsGramOsgSites
  • SysLogNg

VTB install issues

• Looking at GIP validator results at http://gip-validate.grid.iu.edu/. There may be a problem with the configure GIP script - Suchandra will contact the GROW group.
• This is only known (non-SGE) issue to date. Jeff has been looking at the SGE install. WS gram does not work for the SGE job manager - may need to send this to vdt-support.

WS gram testing

• Quick summary - restarted Globus container, ramped up to 800 jobs at which point there are problems -jobs going into a held state.
• Will try these tests again using edge5.

syslog-ng forwarding (Brian)

• See http://www.cedps.net/wiki/index.php/Php-syslog-ng and http://netlogger.lbl.gov/phpsyslogng/.
• Question as to which hosts are forwarding - there may be a problem with the syslog-ng configuration on the LBL VTB host.
• Discussed how the template facility from syslog-ng which is used to write mysql statements. Question about the pre-defined fields - whether these are being filled correctly, etc.
• Privacy issues - how to rollout beyond VTB. For encryption, we can use stunnel - perhaps make this an option, not the default, for site admins.
  • DNs: probably easy to identify and obscure.
  • Local unix accounts - more difficult to recognize.
  • We need to discuss this further with the security working group.

AOB

• None.

-- RobGardner - 12 Jun 2007