2017-05-02 Meeting notes

All Ops content has been received. DTS submitted after agenda but before call.

RDR items were added. 

• A checkbox for XSEDEnet and Longitude and Latitude. 
• Unallocated SPs are putting entries in RDR. 
•  See the new SP Resource Dashboard for some of this info.

Quick update on XES-index changes.

• Tabitha adding “Scanned by Qualys” and “Monitor with Nagios” checkboxes .
• The Qualys one is there now.  Nagios coming.

Quarterly meeting coming up May 24^th

• It is a remote only quarterly meeting. 
• Check the wiki and put this on your schedules.

Greg discussed the upcoming NSF Panel Review of XSEDE in early June

• NSF  Panel Review at NSF is June 6, 7, and 8^th. 
• Be prepared to help with homework on the evening of June 6^th and 7^th. 
• Tim and Adam will be on vacation during this time.

The Operations Project Innovation Fund request was withdrawn and we are going in with the RAS team to test moving the XDCDB primary instance to AWS. 

• Gary and I started meeting with Amy.

IU PCR – IU has turned in a PCR to decommission Quarry for Science Gateway and XES use.

• Note effective dates are end of Aug for Science Gateway decommission and end of Dec for XES

Ticket data and other data has been requested by Univ of Georgia researcher (Nick). 

• Discussion of privacy policy and sanitizing data
• Request are coming in from researchers for XSEDE data. 
• Nick Berente is one and he is asking for ticket data currently. 
• We are not sure what other data to share or that we can share. 
• Greg pointed them to XDMoD as an example. 
• Probably could use an MOU with the researcher for data we share with them.

Accounts and Accounting system

• Discuss XSEDE project allocation renewals and user account renewals.  According to Greg, Chris Hempel may not know it but he is in charge of this task.
• Discuss XSEDE activity working on the XSEDE user account deactivate and who to notify.
• Had a discussion about the activity to do the XSEDE deactivate and how to notify people. 
  • We discussed this and Adam will go talk with Venkat to give him instructions on the notification part. 
  • We said we probably don’t want automatic notifications, but more of a selection. 
  • Adam will communicate what is wanted.

Greg asked what is the status of the Kerberos move from SysOps to Security? 

• Adam talked with Jim E. about it to transition this summer.  He will have the admins submit a plan. 
• Globus group is funded for support and the link in is in Operations.  
  • Greg found out Operations is the home for Globus in XSEDE.   
  • Adam mentioned that the plan for Globus is to get out of the support of the toolkits. 
  • Things like GSI-OpenSSH are an issue for XSEDE.