Site Administrator's Workshop

6 Aug 2009, 08:00 → 7 Aug 2009, 18:00 US/Central

OSG Grid Operations Center

Marco Mambelli (University of Chicago)

The next OSG Site Administrator's Workshop will be held at the OSG Grid Operations Center in Indianapolis on August 6th and 7th, 2009. The focus will be the upgrading of OSG CE's and SE's with the OSG 1.2 production release. The focus is on practical, hands-on issues relating to OSG site administration. Here the twiki page with reference material and tutorials that will be used during the session. We look forward to seeing you there. For attendees, if you need support the GOC phone number is 317-278-9699 To join remotely look at the description of the session you'd like to join for Adobe Connect and phone information. In short: Phone #: +1 510-665-5437 , ID # 12121 (session 1, installfest), 12122 (session 2), both days Web (Adobe Connect): - day 1, session 1: http://osg.acrobat.com/osgsa090806a/ - day 1, session 2: http://osg.acrobat.com/osgsa090806b/ - day 2, session 1: http://osg.acrobat.com/osgsa090807a/ - day 2, session 2: http://osg.acrobat.com/osgsa090807b/ For session recordings see each session (main session page).

Video OSG_Site_Administrators_workshop_2_b_1_0-monitoring.flv

Thursday, 6 August

09:00 → 11:00 OSG 1.2

Introduction to OSG 1.2 and VDT 2

To join remotely:
Web: http://osg.acrobat.com/osgsa090806a/
Phone: +1 510-665-5437 , ID # 12121

No recording available, see each contribution for presentations.

09:00 Introduction to OSG

Slides 2009-08-osg-fundamentals_roy.ppt 2009-08-osg-fundamentals_roy.ppt

10:05 Indy, IUPUI, and GOC

10:30 Welcome to Tier 2s and Tier 3s

Slides Site_Admin.pdf

10:35 What is new in OSG 1.2

Slides 2009-08-whats-new-1.2.ppt

11:00 → 11:15 coffee break

11:15 → 13:00 Sessions introduction

Presenters introduce the topics of the parallel sessions

To join remotely:
Web: Session introductions: partial, noisy audio, at time confusing

11:15 Overview of InstallFest I: GUMS Server and Computing Element

Slides

• ce_session_preview.pdf
• ce_session_preview.ppt
• gums_session_preview.pdf

11:35 Overview of Security

Slides https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/twiki/pub/ReleaseDocumentation/SiteAdminsWorkshopTutorialsAug09/olson-security.pdf https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/twiki/pub/ReleaseDocumentation/SiteAdminsWorkshopTutorialsAug09/olson-security.ppt

11:50 Overview of Networking

Slides OSG-workshop-introduction.ppt

12:05 Overview of InstallFest II: Storage Element

Slides Storage-intro-090806.ppt

12:25 Overview of Virtual Machines

12:40 Overview of OSG monitoring: configuration and USE

13:00 → 14:00 lunch break

14:00 → 16:00 InstallFest I: GUMS Server and Computing Element

GUMS server installation--First hour focuses on standalone installation
Computing Element installation (for both updates to OSG 1.2 and brand new installations)

To join remotely:
Web: http://osg.acrobat.com/osgsa090806a/
Phone: +1 510-665-5437 , ID # 12121

Session recordings:
- InstallFest 1/a: presentation sometime confusing, video, no audio

14:00 GUMS Install 1

First phase of GUMS install fest. User will learn how to install a simple standalone GUMS server.

Speaker: Dr Steven TIMM (Fermilab)

Slides gumshandson1.odp gumshandson1.pdf

15:00 CE Install 1

This is the first part of the computing element install fest. A simple Compute Element Install will be done together.

Speaker: Suchandra THAPA (Univ. of Chicago)

14:00 → 16:00 Security

Security best practices

To join remotely:
Web: http://osg.acrobat.com/osgsa090806b/
Phone: +1 510-665-5437 , ID # 12122

Session recordings:
- Security: ok, confused at moments

14:00 Agenda/welcome/introductions

Slides https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/twiki/pub/ReleaseDocumentation/SiteAdminsWorkshopTutorialsAug09/olson-security.pdf https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/twiki/pub/ReleaseDocumentation/SiteAdminsWorkshopTutorialsAug09/olson-security.ppt

14:05 Security Risks and non-Risks discussion

Slides https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Security/SecurityRisksCE?cover=print

14:20 Site Responsibilities

Slides https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/Documentation/SecuritySiteResponsibilities?cover=print

14:50 Best Practices

Look at selected topics from the Best Practices twiki page

Slides https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/twiki/pub/ReleaseDocumentation/SiteAdminsWorkshopTutorialsAug09/olson-security.pdf https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/twiki/pub/ReleaseDocumentation/SiteAdminsWorkshopTutorialsAug09/olson-security.ppt

15:00 Incident Response Forensics and Review security drill

Slides OSGSecurityDrill.pdf OSGSecurityDrill.ppt

15:30 Q&A on Tier3 Issues

Question and Answer discussion of issues of concern to Tier 3 site administrators.

Slides https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/twiki/pub/ReleaseDocumentation/SiteAdminsWorkshopTutorialsAug09/olson-security-QA.pdf https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/twiki/pub/ReleaseDocumentation/SiteAdminsWorkshopTutorialsAug09/olson-security-QA.ppt

15:45 Certificate Handling

Tools and examples for handling X.509 certificates for uses around OSG. Managing CA certificates, obtaining host & service certificates, setting up SMIME email

Slides https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/twiki/pub/ReleaseDocumentation/SiteAdminsWorkshopTutorialsAug09/olson-security.pdf https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/twiki/pub/ReleaseDocumentation/SiteAdminsWorkshopTutorialsAug09/olson-security.ppt

16:00 → 16:15 coffee break

16:15 → 18:15 InstallFest I: GUMS Server and Computing Element Continued

GUMS server installation (HA Environment with LVS and multi-master MySQL)
Computing Element installation (for both updates to OSG 1.2 and brand new installations)

To join remotely:
Web: http://osg.acrobat.com/osgsa090806a/
Phone: +1 510-665-5437 , ID # 12121

Session recordings:
- InstallFest 1/b: presentation, video, no audio

16:15 GUMS Install 2

This session will go over the details of how to install a high availability pair of GUMS servers. We will use LVS and multi-master replicating MYSQL. Those still working on CE install from first session can continue work as well. (See next contribution)

document GumsHA2009.pdf http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVY11NMVz7mPZGdmNjg0bWZfMmZiNWttbmQ0&hl=en

Slides ha.odp ha.pdf

17:15 CE Install 2

Work continues on CE Install Fest

16:15 → 18:15 Networking

Troubleshooting session using perfsonar

To join remotely:
Web: http://osg.acrobat.com/osgsa090806b/
Phone: +1 510-665-5437 , ID # 12122

Session recordings:
- Networking: no audio, not useful

Friday, 7 August

08:30 → 11:00 InstallFest IIa: Storage Element

Storage Element: Installation tips and help for various types
- BeStMan+xrootd
- BeStMan on ... (POSIX like FS: NFS, GPFS, ... )

To join remotely:
Web: http://osg.acrobat.com/osgsa090807a/
Phone: +1 510-665-5437 , ID # 12121

Session recordings:
- InstallFest 2 (a+b) - SEs: ok

video OSG_Site_Administrators_workshop__2_a_0_0.flv

video OSG_Site_Administrators_workshop_2_b_0_0.flv

08:30 Overview of SRM

Speaker: Alex Sim (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Slides SRM-090807-10min.pdf SRM-090807-10min.ppt

08:40 Differences of BeStMan Installations for OSG and Support for Different Filesystems

Speaker: Mrs Tanya Levshina (Fermilab)

Slides OSG_SiteAdmin09Aug_bestman-1.pdf OSG_SiteAdmin09Aug_bestman-1.ppt

09:00 Installation Tips/Help for BeStMan Full Mode and Bestman on a CE

Speaker: Dr Iwona Sakrejda (LBNL/NERSC)

Slides FullBestman FullBestman.pdf

09:25 Installation Tips/Help for BeStMan Gateway

Speaker: Horst Severini

Slides bestman-gateway-install.pdf

09:40 Installation Tips/Help for BeStMan Gateway with Xrootd

Speaker: Mrs Tanya Levshina (Fermilab)

Slides https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/ReleaseDocumentation/BestmanGatewayXrootdHandsOn

09:55 Overview and Installation tips for Gratia Probes

Speaker: Mrs Tanya Levshina (Fermilab)

Slides https://twiki.grid.iu.edu/bin/view/ReleaseDocumentation/GratiaTransferProbe

08:30 → 11:00 Virtual Machines

Installing OSG services on a Nimbus Cloud

To join remotely:
Web: http://osg.acrobat.com/osgsa090807b/
Phone: +1 510-665-5437 , ID # 12122

Session recordings:
- Virtual Machines:audio sometime choppy

slides CondorVMs.ppt

slides osg-site-admin-nimbus-09.pdf.pdf

Tutorial Insturctions http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/tutorials/osg-admin-2009

08:30 STAR experience with Cloud computing

08:40 Hands-on session demonstrating the use of a Nimbus Cloud

09:40 Hands-on session with the Condor Virtual Machine Universe

10:15 Local VM setup and use

11:00 → 11:15 break

coffee break

11:15 → 13:15 InstallFest IIb: Storage Element

Storage Element:
- Overview, installation tips/help for storage related components and issues

To join remotely:
Web: http://osg.acrobat.com/osgsa090807a/
Phone: +1 510-665-5437 , ID # 12121

Session recordings:
- InstallFest 2 (a+b) - SEs: ok

11:15 Installation Tips/Help for dCache

Speaker: Mrs Tanya Levshina (Fermilab)

Slides OSG_SiteAdmin09Aug-dcache.pdf OSG_SiteAdmin09Aug-dcache.ppt

11:35 Overview and Tips for Storage-related Security

Speaker: Doug Olson (LBNL)

Paper BestmanGatewayHandsOn-markup.pdf

11:50 Overview and Installation of Syslog-ng for BeStMan

Speaker: Dr Iwona Sakrejda (LBNL/NERSC)

Slides Netlogger_and_Syslog-ng_for_Bestman.pdf Netlogger_and_Syslog-ng_for_Bestman.pptx

12:10 Overview, Installation and Tips/Performance for Hadoop in OSG

Speaker: Thomas Michael (Caltech)

Slides Hadoop_OSG-SiteAdmin_August_2009.pdf

12:30 Q/A for Specific Issues, Hands-on Session and Problem Solving

11:15 → 13:15 OSG monitoring: configuration and USE

Configuring and getting information out of OSG monitoring:
- RSV
- configuring it correctly
- adding a custom probe
- MyOSG
- finding the information
- controlling your important information (adding it to iGoogle, ...)
- OIM
- register/modify a resource

To join remotely:
Web: http://osg.acrobat.com/osgsa090807b/
Phone: +1 510-665-5437 , ID # 12122

Session recordings:
- OSG Monitoring:no audio for the first 30', audio choppy, black screen close to the end

11:15 Interacting with the GOC Ticketing System

How to get the most out of GOC ticketing. Submission, followup and resolution.

Speaker: Chris Pipes (IU)

11:30 OSG Information Management - Keeping Your Information Current

How to use OIM to keep your information current.

Speakers: Arvind Gopu (Indiana University), Elizabeth Chism (IU)

Slides 2009-08-07-SiteAdminsMeeting_OIM_Talk.ppt oim-siteadmins.pptx

11:55 MyOSG - A Resource Level View

How to use MyOSG from a Resource Administrators POV.

Speaker: Soichi Hayashi

12:35 All Things RSV

How to install, configure, and add new RSV probes. Also, an introduction to writing your own probes.

Speaker: Arvind Gopu

Slides 2009-08-07-SiteAdminsMeeting_RSV_Talk.ppt