US ATLAS Distributed Facility Support Center

Facilities Integration Program

• Integration Program

Guide to OSG

• GuideToOSG

Workshops

• See the US ATLAS Grid Webpage for a full listing of ATLAS and Grid meetings and workshops.
• US ATLAS Tier2 Workshop at the University of Chicago, May 9-10, 2006
• US ATLAS Tier2 Workshop at Harvard University, August 17-18, 2006
• US ATLAS Tier2 Workshop at the University of Texas, Arlington, December 8, 2006
• US ATLAS Tier2 Workshop at the University of California, San Diego, March 7-8, 2007
• US ATLAS Tier2 Integration Planning Meeting at the University of Chicago, May 9-10, 2007
• US ATLAS Tier2 Workshop at Indiana University, Bloomington, June 20-22, 2007
• US ATLAS Tier2 Workshop at SLAC, November 28-30, 2007
• US ATLAS Tier2 Workshop at RENCI, March 4, 2008
• US ATLAS Tier2/Tier3 Workshop at University of Michigan, May 27-28, 2008
• US ATLAS Tier2/Tier3 Workshop at BNL, September 22-23, 2008

Tier2 Program Planning

• Tier2 Planning Twiki Deprecated

US ATLAS Support Ticket System

The OSG/LCG grid administrator (of Tier 1 and Tier 2 clusters) should be responsible to follow up with tickets with the same ownership as their site. The content of tickets can be: reporting a problem, requesting a change and adding more features. Each ticket is associated with different priorities. The responsible site administrator needs to follow up the ticket in a timely fashion and try to resolve the ticket, and then close it. Each update to the ticket will trigger an email sent to the ticket requester, ticket owner and other persons assigned this ticket category.

Ticket Responsibility:

When an administrator receives an email regarding a support ticket, he/she should click on the Web link which takes him/her to the US ATLAS ticket system. Before you view the ticket, you will be prompted to input your US ATLAS computing account name and password. For forgotten passwords or other RT account issues, please open a ticket in the Accounts queue.

When you work on a ticket, you are responsible to provide the status update through the ticket system until the ticket is closed: inform the user of the cause of the problems, and your proposed solutions. Each update on the ticket will be emailed to the ticket requester. If the requester replies to the email with more questions or information (the ticket system can right now not allow a non-user to access the ticket, we are working on solutions so that a user should be able to follow up with his/her ticket), the ticket assignees should be responsible to post it onto the ticket system.

Each type of ticket has a primary owner and several assignees. If a assignee finds that ticket can be handled by him/her, he can take the ownership, process the ticket and close it. By doing this, we can avoid single point failure.

If the ticket is improperly assigned to you, you need to go to the ticket system to re-assign the ticket to the new responsible person by changing the ticket's problem type and/or choosing new owner. Then you pass along the responsibility.

Step by Step: Using the Ticket System

1. Request a BNL user account, and a US ATLAS computing account. See:

https://www.racf.bnl.gov/experiments/usatlas/getstarted/useraccounts

2. Once you have a US ATLAS computing account, log into the RACF RT web interface and click on the appropriate queue(s).

3. It may be necessary to add new user accounts to specific RT queues. If this is necessary, please open a ticket in the TicketSystem queue with any relevant information for adding your account to the list of users that can administer that specific queue (name, account name, institution, experiment contact or sponsor).

New Ticket System

For more information and documentation: https://www.racf.bnl.gov/docs/rt

BNL HyperNews Forum

See the HyperNews Interface and HyperNews account and user information.

Tier 2 Software Installation

• USATLAS Site Admin Software Installation and Configuration
• AtlasWorkerNode Installation

Tier 2 Usage Policy

Tier 1 and Tier 2 Computing Facility Usage Policy

Tier2 Site Web Pages

• Northeast Tier 2
• Great Lakes Tier 2
• Midwest Tier 2
• Southwest Tier 2
• Western Tier 2

Tier 3 Sites

• Instructions for setting up Tier 3g / Tier 3w
• USATLAS Tier 3 Site Admins Contact Information

Documentation for various services

VOMS

• ATLAS Old + New VOMS Workaround Page: ATLAS Old + New VOMS Workaround Page

Grid Certificates

• DOEGrids CA Grid Admin Interface

dCache

• BNL

Cloud/Virtualization

• Virtualized/Cloud Panda Setup Documentation