EGI-InSPIRE:Italy-QR10
Quarterly Report Number | NGI Name | Partner Name | Author |
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QR10 | IGI | INFN | P. Veronesi |
1. MEETINGS AND DISSEMINATION
1.1. CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ORGANISED
Date | Location | Title | Participants | Outcome (Short report & Indico URL) |
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1-3.10.2012 | Bologna | V site managers school | 20 people | web site event (in italian) |
1.2. OTHER CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
Date | Location | Title | Participants | Outcome (Short report & Indico URL) |
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17-21.09.2012 | Prague | EGI Technical Forum 2012 | Participation (around 12 people) in SA1 meetings, presentations and demos | web site event |
1.3. PUBLICATIONS
Publication title | Journal / Proceedings title | Journal references Volume number Issue Pages from - to |
Authors 1. 2. 3. Et al? |
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Publication title | Journal / Proceedings title | Journal references | Authors |
2. ACTIVITY REPORT
2.1. Progress Summary
2.1.2. GARR
2.1.2. INFN
Migration activity
- Core Grid services provided by NGI_IT have been upgraded to EMI-1 or EMI-2.
Resource centers changes
- Five Resource centers are suspended (GRISU-COMETA-ING-MESSINA, GRISU-COMETA-UNICT-DIIT, GRISU-COMETA-UNICT-DMI, GRISU-COMETA-UNIPA, INFN-NAPOLI-ARGO).
- One Resource centere have been closed (SISSA-Trieste).
- Two Resource centere have been certified (BIOCOMP, INAF-TS).
IGI portal
- We have developed a new plugin for the IGI portal, in order to make easier the data management task to the Grid end user.
- We have developed specific interfaces for some application
- We are working on storage solution for providing storage services (Grid/Cloud) for scientific gateway
- We are working on cloud solution integration in the portal
National Certification Authority
- Improvements in the design of the IGI on line CA, preparation of the needed certificate profiles and setup of a first test environment with all the final elements foreseen in the architecture (CA,Myproxy server,public frontend etc..).
- Preparation of the CP/CPS document of the ROOT-CA and for the OnLine CA.
- Test of the Hardware Security Module for the IGI online CA with the CA management software that will be used in the production system
New core service
- AMGA catalog: an AMGA server has been installed and configured. Some tests have been carried out and the server is now available for Italian
communities.
- CVMFS: a CVMFS server is now available for SuperB community;
- CVMFS: a CVMFS server is under test to distribute software for some regional VOs;
National Certification Authority
- Improvements in the design of the IGI on line CA, preparation of the needed certificate profiles and setup of a first test environment with all the final elements foreseen in the architecture (CA,Myproxy server,public frontend etc..).
- Preparation of the CP/CPS document of the ROOT-CA and first rough draft of the CP/CPS document for the On Line CA.
- Test of the Hardware Security Module for the IGI online CA with the CA management software that will be used in the production system
Security
- Support to the sites for the incident response, vulnerability assessment and monitoring.
- Organization of the EGI-CSIRT training sessions at the next Technical Forum 2012.
2.2. Main Achievements
2.2.1. GARR
2.2.2. INFN
- Started in October the TPM and DMSU merge, the INFN effort is in the following activities: Triage & assignment and 1st/2nd Level Support
- IGI Portal (https://portal.italiangrid.it) is now accessible for all communities part of eduGAIN federation.
- The IGI report generator is a more powerful statistics tool.
- IGI Portal is now available to all users part of IDEM federation.
- An AMGA the server is now available for Italian communities.
- CVMFS server is now available for SuperB community.
- Partecipation Virtual team projects (National and International)
- VT MPI within EGI
- MPI-Multicore IGI group
- During the quarter, EAs performed SR activities for some grid components(LFC, WMS, CLUSTER, CREAM, STORM, VOMS, SAM)
- Contribution to the final version of the D4.4 deliverable "Security Risk Assessment of the EGI Infrastructure", in particular to the threats definition and risk evaluation.
2.3. Issues and mitigation
Issue Description | Mitigation Description |
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Relevant and blockng failures during SAM Nagios update 17 caused the interruption of the main server. Successfully switched to the fail-over instance. | Issues fixed dropping metric result store database. |