Julia Andreeva, Carlos Borrego Iglesias, Simone Campana, Alessandro Di Girolamo, Ivan Dzhunov, Xavier Espinal Curull, Stavro Gayazov, Erekle Magradze, Michal Maciej Nowotka, Lorenzo Rinaldi, Pablo Saiz, Jaroslava Schovancova, Graeme Andrew Stewart, Michael Wright
The automation of operations is essential to reduce manpower costs and improve the reliability of the system. The Site Status Board (SSB) is a framework which allows Virtual Organizations to monitor their computing activities at distributed sites and to evaluate site performance. The ATLAS experiment intensively uses the SSB for the distributed computing shifts, for estimating data processing and data transfer efficiencies at a particular site, and for implementing automatic exclusion of sites from computing activities, in case of potential problems. The ATLAS SSB provides a real-time aggregated monitoring view and keeps the history of the monitoring metrics. Based on this history, usability of a site from the perspective of ATLAS is calculated. The paper will describe how the SSB is integrated in the ATLAS operations and computing infrastructure and will cover implementation details of the ATLAS SSB sensors and alarm system, based on the information in the SSB. It will demonstrate the positive impact of the use of the SSB on the overall performance of ATLAS computing activities and will overview future plans.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.0101
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