Ideas about reorganizing the Shifters / GEOCs / PMs activities within LHCb

Shifters

Responsibilities

Mandatory

• Monitor Production Data Processing
• Monitor Production Data Transfers
• Monitor User Activities

and report on any abnormal behavior to the relevant peers.

Optional

Followup on any abnormal behavior and try to explain it, giving more input to the relevant peers on solving the issue (up to found the solution)

Activities

Input

Interfaces to other parties

GEOC

Grid Experts on Call (GEOC)

Responsibilities

• Fix problems
• Meetings
  • Organize the "LHCb Computing Operations Meeting"
  • Report to the "WLCG daily meeting"

Activities

Interfaces to other parties

Shifter

PM

Distributed Analysis Shifter (DAST)

Responsibilities

• React to issues reported on lhcb-distributed-analysis@cernNOSPAMPLEASE.ch

Activities

Interfaces to other parties

GEOC

Production Managers (PM)

Responsibilities

Activities

Interfaces to other parties

GEOC

Documentation

• Previous shifters guides
  • Updated Shifters Guide (2011)
  • Shifters Guide (2010)

-- StefanRoiser - 24-Jan-2012