LAL Site Report

Michel Jouvin LAL / IN2P3 [email protected]

Main Resources

100 Go Electronic CAD (Sun + Cadence) ESA12000 1,5 TB FC DS20 •NFS •SMB •Appletalk •www •Mail •Print HDS 9570 4 TB FC DS20e Xterm Mac (100) Gb Ethernet 100 Mb 10 Mb 24/5/2004 PC (300) Alpha Experiments (8 CPUs) Linux Experiments (30 CPUs) GRID Fram (10 CPUs) LAL Site Report - HEPix - Edinburgh 2004

Main Resources Changes

• • • • More Linux CPUs – 25 dual Opteron 2,2 on order (IBM E325, 1U) More TBs – HDS 9570V : 2,5 TB added • Running very well Less budget… – Budget uncertainty (always changing) No OS upgrade since last meeting 24/5/2004 LAL Site Report - HEPix - Edinburgh 2004

Mail Service

• • Virus/Spam filtering production – – Spam Assassin + MimeDefang Tunning in progress to increase efficiency (~70%) Late with all our main projects for mail service – SIEVE for filtering at message delivery (server based) – Upgrade IMAP server to Cyrus v2 • Required for SIEVE filtering – Authenticated SMTP • Conversion of our current SASL db for transparent user migration with same password db for IMAP and Sendmail 24/5/2004 LAL Site Report - HEPix - Edinburgh 2004

Windows Infrastructure

• • IN2P3 forest in production – – – – 9 labs in production (8 sites) 4 labs should join shortly (by the end of June) No problem so far… Forest management not to heavy • Domain management delegated to labs Move of LAL domain to IN2P3 forest delayed – – – Planned this summer Challenge : transparent to users, preserving GPOs Back to NT4 domain and reupgrade to ActiveDirectory (2003) 24/5/2004 LAL Site Report - HEPix - Edinburgh 2004

Virus

• • Not too much affected – – – – Ports attacked filtered in border router 2 PCs infected by Sasser outside LAL Checking is time consuming… Proactive patch installation is critical Main tool : SMS – – Rapid deployment of fixes : 2 hours for 90% of running PCs Integrating SMS and SUS : SUS feature pack • SUS integrated with SMS inventory and logging capabilites 24/5/2004 LAL Site Report - HEPix - Edinburgh 2004

Resources Monitoring

• • Operation Control Center (Tableau de bord) – – LAL Solution based on Nagios and RRDTools HTML front end with a service oriented view • Grouping / aggregation of Nagios status – Alerts and notifications capabilities – – Proactive/corrective actions associated with alerts Performance data with RRDTools (former MRTG) Services monitored by plugins – – Almost everything can be monitored No platform / OS dependency • Remote execution of plugins through SSH 24/5/2004 LAL Site Report - HEPix - Edinburgh 2004

Operation Control Center

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Operation Control Center

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GRID

• • Strong involvement from LAL in EDG / LCG / EGEE – – 3 FTE during EDG/LCG (including EDG Integration Team leader) EGEE : 1 of the official french site, 2 FTE funded • 1 middleware, 1 application deployment – Fabric update : 26 CPUs to be added shortly (total : 36) • Mainly Xeon 3 Ghz and Opteron 2,2 Ghz Involved in a P2P computing project (XtremWeb) – Partnership with LRI (Orsay, computing research) – – – 1 FTE (LAL engineer preparing a PHD) 30 CPUs (mainly Xeon 3 Ghz and Opteron 2,2 Ghz) LAL interest : use of P2P ressource as a fabric via OGSA 24/5/2004 LAL Site Report - HEPix - Edinburgh 2004

Miscellaneous Projects

• • Unattended Linux installation server – – Currently based on Kickstart for initial installation Still planning to investigate EDG WP4 Quattor • • • Initial installation and updates Servers and desktops In conjunction with EGEE involvement (P. Ponianski may join LAL) Automatic visitor registration and DHCP quarantine – – Coupled with a rework of our computers database Expected one fellow but he resigned after 2 weeks… 24/5/2004 LAL Site Report - HEPix - Edinburgh 2004