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Message Broker Network
Overview
The message broker network is a fundamental part of the operations infrastructure ensuring message exchange for monitoring, the operations dashboard and accounting. As such it is a critical infrastructure component whose continuity and high availability configuration must be ensured. The Message Broker Network is part of the EGI Core Infrastructure Platform which is needed to support the running of tools used for the daily operations of EGI.
Consortium: GRNET, SRCE
Contact: Christos Kanellopoulos at GRNET
Funded resources: 5 PMs
Total cost: 26550 Euro
Duration: from 1 May 2014 to 30 April 2015
OLA:EGI.eu Operation Level Agreement
Operations Portal
Overview
The Operations Portal provides VO management functions and other capabilities which support the daily operations of EGI. It is a central portal for the operations community that offers a bundle of different capabilities, such as the broadcast tool, VO management facilities, a security dashboard and an operations dashboard that is used to display information about failing monitoring probes and to open tickets to the Resource Centres affected. The dashboard also supports the central grid oversight activities. It is fully interfaced with the EGI Helpdesk and the monitoring system through messaging. It is a critical component as it is used by all EGI Operations Centres to provide support to the respective Resource Centres. The Operations Portal provides tools supporting the daily running of operations of the entire infrastructure: grid oversight, security operations, VO management, broadcast, availability reporting.
Consortium: CNRS, GRNET
Contact: Cyril L’Orphelin and Gilles Mathieu/French NGI, Christos Kanellopoulos/ Greek NGI
Funded resources: 24 PMs
Total cost: 157100 Euro
Duration:
OLA:EGI.eu Operation Level Agreement
Accounting Repository
Overview
The Accounting Repository stores user accounting records from various services offered by EGI. It is part of the EGI Core Infrastructure Platform, which supports the daily operations of EGI. The EGI Accounting Infrastructure is distributed. At a central level it includes the repositories for the persistent storage of usage records. The central databases are populated through individual usage records published by the Resource Centres, or through the publication of summarised usage records. The Accounting Infrastructure is essential in a service-oriented business model to record usage information.
Consortium: STFC
Contact: Stuart
Pullinger /STFC
Funded resources: 12 PM, 4800 Euro of extra cost
Total cost: 95469 Euro
Duration:
OLA:EGI.eu Operation Level Agreement
Accounting and Metric Portal
Overview.
The Accounting Portal provides data accounting views for users, VO Managers, NGI operations and the general public. The Accounting Portal is part of the EGI Core Infrastructure Platform which supports the daily operations of EGI. The EGI Accounting Infrastructure is distributed. At a central level it includes the repositories for the persistent storage of usage records. The central databases are populated through individual usage records published by the Resource Centres, or through the publication of summarised usage records. The Accounting Infrastructure is essential in a service-oriented business model to record usage information.
The Metrics Portal aggregates metrics from the EGI Infrastructure from activity leaders and NGI managers in order to quantify and track the infrastructure evolution.
Consortium: CESGA
Contact: Carlos Fernandez, Álvaro Simón/CESGA
Funded resources: 6 PM
Total cost: 25380 Euro
Duration:
OLA:EGI.eu Operation Level Agreement
SAM central services
Overview
The Service is part of the EGI Core Infrastructure Platform which supports the daily operations of EGI. Central systems are needed for accessing and archiving infrastructure monitoring results of the services provided at many levels (Resource Centres, NGIs and EGI.EU), for the generation of service level reports, and for the central monitoring of EGI.eu operational tools and other central monitoring needs.
Consortium: GRNET, SRCE, CNRS
Contact: Christos Kanellopoulos, Kostas Koumantaros/GRNET
Funded resources: 28 PM and 2500 Euro of extra costs
Total cost: 159900 Euro
Duration:
OLA:EGI.eu Operation Level Agreement
Monitoring central services
Overview
Monitoring Central Services is supporting monitoring of activities to be conducted centrally, like monitoring of e.g. UserDN publishing in accounting records, GLUE information validation, software versions of deployed middleware, security incidents and weaknesses and EGI.eu technical services. Central Monitoring Services is part of the EGI Core Infrastructure Platform, which supports the daily operations of EGI.
Consortium: GRNET, SRCE
Contact: Emir Imamagic, Dobrisa Dobrenic/SRCE
Funded resources: 12 PM and 2500 Euro of extra costs
Duration:
OLA:EGI.eu Operation Level Agreement
Overview
Security monitoring and related support tools are part of the EGI Core Infrastructure Platform which supports the daily security operations of EGI. EGI is an interconnected federation where a single vulnerable place may have a huge impact on the whole infrastructure. In order to recognise the risks and to address potential vulnerabilities in a timely manner, the EGI Security Monitoring provides an oversight of the infrastructure from the security standpoint. Also, sites connected to EGI differ significantly in the level of security and detecting weaknesses exposed by the sites allows the EGI security operations to contact the sites before the issue leads to an incident. Information produced by security monitoring is also important during assessment of new risks and vulnerabilities since it enables to identify the scope and impact of a potential security incident.
Consortium: CESNET
Contact: Daniel Kouril/CESENT
Funded resources: 4 PMs
Total cost (40% EGI.eu co-funding): 25600
Duration:
OLA:EGI.eu Operation Level Agreement
Service registry (GOCDB)
Overview
Service Registry (GOCDB) is a central registry to record information about different entities such as the Operations Centres, the Resource Centres, service endpoints and the contact information and roles of people responsible for operations at different levels. GOCDB is a source of information for many other operational tools, such as the broadcast tool, the Aggregated Topology Provider, the Accounting Portal, etc. GOCDB is part of the EGI Core Infrastructure Platform, which supports the daily operations of EGI.
Consortium: STFC
Contact: David Meredith/STFC
Funded resources: 6 PM and 5581 Euro of extra costs
Total cost: 80963 Euro
Duration:
OLA:EGI.eu Operation Level Agreement
Catchall services
Overview
Catch-All services are auxiliary services needed by the Core Infrastructure Platform and by various operational activities of EGI. Auxiliary services and activities are needed for the good running of Infrastructure Services. Examples of such services are VOMS service and VO membership management for infrastructural VOs (DTEAM, OPS), the provisioning of middleware services needed by the monitoring infrastructure (e.g. top-BDII and WMS), and catch-all services for emerging user communities.
Consortium: GRNET
Contact: Christos Kanellopoulos, Kostas Koumantaros/GRNET
Funded resources: ? from 8 PMs
Total cost: ? from 65400 Euro
Duration:
OLA:EGI.eu Operation Level Agreement
Operations support
Overview
Operations support is auxiliary service needed by the Core Infrastructure Platform and by various operational activities of EGI. Auxiliary activities are needed for the good running of Infrastructure Services. Examples of such are activities for service level management, service level reporting, service management in general and central technical.
Consortium: CYFRONET
Contact: Tomasz Szepieniec, Marcin Radecki/CYFRONET
Funded resources: ? from 8 PMs
Total cost: ? from 65400 Euro
Duration:
OLA:EGI.eu Operation Level Agreement
Security coordination
- Overview. Security is recognised as an important aspect of e-Infrastructures and requires co-ordination between the EGI participants at various levels, in particular for the prevention and handling of incidents
- Consortium: STFC, FOM, SNIC
- Contact: Dave Kelsey/STFC, Sven Gabriel, David Groep/FOM, Leif Nixon/SNIC
- Funded resources: 20 PMs and 17000 Euro of extra costs
- Total cost: 223371 Euro
- Duration: 12 months, as of May 01 2014
- OLA:
Acceptance criteria
- Overview. The quality criteria are the functional and non functional requirements that a product must fulfill to be released in UMD, these include generic requirement applicable to every product, and specific requirements applicable to the capabilities supported by a component.
- Consortium: IberGrid
- Contact: Jorge Gomes, Goncalo Borges, Joao Pina/LIP; Isabel Campos, Enol Fernandez/CSIC, Carlos Fernandez, Alvaro Simon Garcia/CESGA
- Funded resources: 10 PMs
- Total cost: 56400 Euro
- Duration: 12 months, as of May 01 2014
- OLA:
Collaboration tools/IT support
- Overview. The task provides the following services for the EGI collaboration, all the services requiring authentication must interface with SSO: EGI.eu Web site hosting and CMS maintenance; EGI main events dedicated webspace; EGI SSO; Including shibboleth access for third party services using SSO as ID provider; Wiki; Mailman; Forum; DocumentDB; Indico; RT; Instant messaging (Jabber); RT must interface with the UMD software provisioning system. Tight cooperation with the provider of the UMD infrastructure is expected; Main DNS for egi.eu domain
- Consortium: CESNET
- Contact: Martin Kuba, Miloš Liška/CESNET
- Funded resources: 12 PMs
- Total cost: 76800 Euro
- Duration: 12 months, as of May 01 2014
- OLA:
Staged Rollout
- Overview. The Staged Rollout is a procedure by which certified updates of the supported middleware are first tested by Early Adopter (EA) sites before being made available to all sites through the production repositories. This procedure permits to test an update in a production environment that exposes the product to more heterogeneous use cases than the certification and verification phase. This allows the discovery of potential issues and potentially to add mitigation information to the UMD release notes.
- Consortium: IberGrid
- Contact: Jorge Gomes, Goncalo Borges, Joao Pina/LIP; Isabel Campos, Enol Fernandez/CSIC, Carlos Fernandez, Alvaro Simon Garcia/CESGA
- Funded resources: 10 PMs
- Total cost: 56400 Euro
- Duration: 12 months, as of May 01 2014
- OLA:
Software provisioning infrastructure
- Overview. The software provisioning infrastructure provides the technical tools to support the UMD release process from pulling packages from the developers repositories to the build of a release.
- Consortium: GRNET, CESGA
- Contact: Jorge Gomes, Goncalo Borges, Joao Pina/LIP; Isabel Campos, Enol Fernandez/CSIC, Carlos Fernandez, Alvaro Simon Garcia/CESGA
- Funded resources: 19 PMs and 12000 extra costs for CESGA
- Total cost: 119160 Euro
- Duration: 12 months, as of May 01 2014
- OLA:
Incident management helpdesk
- Overview. EGI provides support to users and operators through a distributed helpdesk with central coordination (GGUS). The central helpdesk provides a single interface for support. The central system is interfaced to a variety of other ticketing systems at the NGI level in order to allow a bi-directional exchange of tickets.
- Consortium: KIT
- Contact:
- Funded resources: 12 PMs and 18000 Euro of extra costs
- Total cost: 124740 Euro (offered in-kind in 2014)
- Duration: 12 months, as of May 01 2014
- OLA:
1st and 2nd level support
(merged with second level support)
- Overview: EGI provides support to users and operators through a distributed helpdesk with central coordination (GGUS). The central helpdesk provides a single interface for support. Software-related tickets that reach the second level of support are analysed and if necessary are forwarded to 3rd line support units only when there are clear indications of a defect (in software, documentation, etc.).
- Consortium: IberGrid, CESNET
- Contact: Aleš Křenek, Zdeněk Šustr/CESNET, Jorge Gomes, Goncalo Borges, Joao Pina/LIP; Isabel Campos, Enol Fernandez/CSIC, Carlos Fernandez, Alvaro Simon Garcia/CESGA,
- Funded resources: 28 PMs
- Total cost: 157280 Euro
- Duration: 12 months, as of May 01 2014
- OLA:
2nd level support (core platform)
- merged with 1st level support (above)
2nd level support (community platform)
(merged with the other monitoring and accounting tasks)
Document EGI-InSPIRE Operational Tools Sustainability provides more information about the current technical specifications, support and maintenance activities of the following services: Operations Portal, GGUS, GOCDB, SAM, Messaging, Accounting Repository, and Accounting Portal.