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Manuals
The EGI Operations Manuals are approved technical documents that provide prescriptive guidelines on how to complete a given task. These documents are periodically reviewed, and need to be followed by all partners (as opposed to a best-practice documents that provide optional guidelines).
Number | Category | Title | Comment | Relevant to | Status |
MAN 01 | Operations | Publishing Site Information | Instructions on how to use attributes in the GlueSite object. | Resource Centre administrators | approved |
MAN 02 | Operations | Service Intervention Management | Instructions on how to manage a service intervention, i.e. an action which will involve or lead to the possibility of a loss, or noticeable degradation of a service. | Resource Centre administrators | approved |
MAN 03 | Middleware | MPI-Start Installation and Configuration | Instructions for Resource Centre administrators on how to install and configure MPI-Start | Resource Centre administrators | approved by the MPI-support team |
MAN 04 | Operations | Tool Intervention Management | This manual provides information on how to manage central operational tool unscheduled downtimes. | Central tool administrators | approved, 01 August 2011 |
MAN 05 | Middleware | (EMI.gLite) top-BDII High Availability | Instructions for the implementation of a top-BDII High Availability configuration | Resource Centre administrators | approved, June 2011 (OMB and EMI) |
MAN 06 | Middleware | Failover for MySQL grid based services | Instruction for the implementation of failover of MySQL grid based services. | Resource Centre administrators, VO managers | approved |
MAN 07 | Middleware | VOMS Replication | Instruction for the implementation of MySQL VOMS server replication | Resource Centre administrators, VO managers | approved |
MAN 08 | Middleware |
Publication to information system (QCG, Globus, ARC, Unicore) |
This manual provides information on how to publish to information system (BDII) for QCG, Globus, ARC, Unicore. | Resource Centre administrators | Draft |
MAN 09 | Middleware | Accounting data publishing | This manual provides information on how to publish accounting information from different middlewares. | Resource Centre administrators | approved |
Troubleshooting and Grid Administration
- Troubleshooting Guide for Operational Errors on EGI Sites
- Grid Administration FAQs
- Middleware issues and solutions
HowTos
Miscellaneous collection of short HowTos which are relevant to various other documentation, procedures, etc.
Number | Title | Comment | Relevant to | Status |
HOWTO 01 | Site Certification Required Information | Information required in the GOCDB when registering a site/resource centre | Resource Centres, Operations Centres | Ready |
HOWTO 02 | Site Certification Required Documentation | Short list of documentation required to read when registering a site/resource centre | Resource Centres, Operations Centres | Ready |
HOWTO 03 | Site Certification GIIS Check | Information to check GIIS/BDII published information when certifying a site/resource centre | Resource Centres, Operations Centres | Ready |
HOWTO 04 | Site Certification Manual tests | Information for how to manually test services when certifying a site/resource centre | Resource Centres, Operations Centres | Needs work |
HOWTO 05 | How to publish the OS name | Enter the correct values in the site-info.def of your CE | Resource Centres, Operations Centres | Needs work |
HOWTO 06 | How to publish the system architecture | Enter the correct values for GlueHostArchitecturePlatformType | Resource Centres, Operations Centres | Needs work |
HOWTO 07 | How to change the Site-BDII | Step by step how-to | Resource Centres | Review needed |
HOWTO 08 | How to use WSPGRADE | Step by step how-to | Users | Under construction |
HOWTO 09 | How to use Federated Cloud Storage | Step by step how-to | Users | Review needed |
HOWTO 10 | How to port application into EGI Federated Cloud | Step by step how-to | Users | Review needed |
HOWTO 11 | How to use the rOCCI Client | How to use the rOCCI Client | Users | Ready |
HOWTO 12 |
Globus Online cookbook for EGI VOs |
how the 'SRM type' storage services that are federated into EGI can be used as endpoints of file transfers managed by Globus Online | Users |
Ready |
HOWTO 13 | EUDAT B2STAGE cookbook for EGI VOs |
how to move data between EGI resources and EUDAT resources using the B2STAGE service | Users |
Ready |
HOWTO 14 |
How to use COMPSs |
How to use COMPSs / Integration of COMPSs in the EGI FedCloud |
Users |
Ready |
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions are question/answer documents providing information on specific technical areas. The FAQ provides a high-level overview of the issue and collection of links for futher investigation .
Number | Area | Title |
FAQ01 | Accounting, Installed Capacity | Using HEP SPEC 06 |
FAQ02 | Middleware | Transition from lcg-CE to CREAM |
FAQ03 | User | Renewing a personal certificate |
FAQ04 | Grid Administration FAQs | Grid Administration |
FAQ05 | Support | GGUS FAQs |
FAQ06 | Site management | GOCDB FAQ |
FAQ07 | Grid Oversight (ROD) | Grid operations oversight FAQ |
FAQ08 | VO Management | VO management FAQ |
FAQ09 | VO Management | VO Service Availability Monitoring FAQ |
FAQ10 | User | EGI Federated Cloud User FAQ |