Hi Steve, Unfortunately you hit a quirk of a multi-VO dirac instance. Bear with me, this is slightly lengthy: In principle the dirac-admin-get-site-mask (no, I don't know why users should ever use a command with the word 'admin' in either) should show all sites available to a VO. If you run this command you will notice LCG.UKI-NORTHGRID-SHEF-HEP.uk is missing. This is because Sheffield does not support pilot roles for any VO and hence cannot run any jobs submitted via dirac[*]. LCG.UKI-SOUTHGRID-SUSX.uk is in the list. They do support pilot roles for the snoplus VO, but not gridpp, but snoplus needs all the resources it can get, so we left the site turned on [**]. We follow these problems up in GGUS tickets, but sites can drag their heels for months on end. About the VAC sites: I can see from the admin interface that neither VAC.UKI-LT2-UCL-HEP.uk nor VAC.UKI-NORTHGRID-LANCS-HEP.uk run any gridpp jobs directly submitted to them. The bad thing is, I can't even tell from the admin interface if they should be able to. I will ask Andrew McN about this off the list and cc you on the email. TLDR: In this case dirac probably does know best and won't let you submit a job at a site where it wouldn't run. Unfortunately the reasons for this are not necessarily obvious to the user (and in a lot of cases to the admins as well...) [*] https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=114460 [**] https://ggus.eu/?mode=ticket_info&ticket_id=118289 Regards, Daniela On 2 March 2016 at 16:40, Steve Lloyd <s.l.lloyd@qmul.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi, My jobs never seem to run at some sites:
VAC.UKI-LT2-UCL-HEP.uk VAC.UKI-NORTHGRID-LANCS-HEP.uk LCG.UKI-NORTHGRID-SHEF-HEP.uk LCG.UKI-SOUTHGRID-SUSX.uk
See http://pprc.qmul.ac.uk/~lloyd/gridpp/gridtests/diractest.html for more details.
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