1. LAL Site Report Michel Jouvin LAL / IN2P3 jouvin@lal.in2p3.fr

2. 24/5/2004 LAL Site Report - HEPix - Edinburgh 2004 Main Resources NFS SMB Appletalk www Mail Print LSF Cluster Gb Ethernet DS20 PC (300)Mac (100) Linux Experiments (30 CPUs) DS20e 10 Mb Alpha Experiments (8 CPUs) Electronic CAD (Sun + Cadence) 100 Mb 100 Go Xterm ESA12000 1,5 TB FC HDS 9570 4 TB FC GRID Fram (10 CPUs)

3. 24/5/2004 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

4. 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

5. 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)

6. 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

7. 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

8. 24/5/2004 LAL Site Report - HEPix - Edinburgh 2004 Operation Control Center

9. 24/5/2004 LAL Site Report - HEPix - Edinburgh 2004 Operation Control Center

10. 24/5/2004 LAL Site Report - HEPix - Edinburgh 2004 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

11. 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…