PROC04 Quality verification of monthly availability and reliability statistics
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Title | Quality verification of monthly availability and reliability statistics |
Document link | https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/PROC04 |
Last modified | 16th August 2018 |
Policy Group Acronym | OMB |
Policy Group Name | Operations Management Board |
Contact Group | operations@egi.eu |
Document Status | Approved |
Approved Date | 30 October 2012 |
Procedure Statement | Instructions RODs and Operations Centres on how to handle justification for poor monthly performance |
Owner | Alessandro Paolini |
Overview
The document describes the process of how to handle justification for poor monthly performance.
Links to all monthly statistics are provided on a regular basis at Availability and reliability monthly statistics page.
Definitions
Please refer to the EGI Glossary for the definitions of the terms used in this procedure.
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", “MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
Process of handling RC Availability and Reliability
Availability alarms are raised on the ROD Dashboard and are thought to be a warning for NGI informing about poor performance of site within the last 30 days.
Entities involved in the procedure
Regional Operator on Duty (ROD): team provided by NGIs and responsible for handling RC availability and reliability alarms through Dashboard in Operations Portal.
Operations: team provided by EGI.eu and responsible for handling of underperforming sites which were below the target for 3 consecutive months.
NGI manager: person who suspend the underperforming site or provide site justification.
Steps
When an alarm is raised, it means that the Availability metric has dropped below the threshold of 80% for the last 30 days period.
Handling alarms:
Step# | Responsible | Action |
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1 | ROD | Creates a ticket through the dashboard notifying site administrator that the Availability metric has dropped below the threshold of 80% for the last 30 days period.
The expiration date should be set to not later then same date next month minus 1 day. |
2 | ROD | Escalation of the ticket will vary between NGIs. NGIs have freedom to decide if they want to apply any escalation procedure or treat availability tickets just as an notification for site administrators. |
3 | ROD |
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Handling of underperforming sites (below the target for 3 consecutive months):
Step# | Responsible | Action |
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1 | Operations | Creates a GGUS ticket for each underperforming site. Ticket template. |
2 | NGI operations manager | Within 10 working days NGI operations manager can suspend the site or ask to not suspend the site by providing adequate explanation |
3 | Operations | Send a direct email to NGI and site contact email (in GOC DB) with deadline 2 days for comments |
4 | Operations |
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Recomputation procedure
In case of doubts about the validity of Availability/Reliability reports, a RC/NGI can request recomputations according to the procedure defined at PROC10
Known issues and recommendations to NGIs
- Newly certified sites will get inaccurate Availability/Reliability figures for the month they were certified and all months before that. ARGO Computation Engine takes into account the Certification status of the site in GOCDB in order to decide if metrics should be calculated for the site. Because the Certification status history is not currently available in the operations tools, until a solution is implemented NGIs should check if they have sites affected by this issue and report it as explanation. More information at [1] and [2].
- Recalculation - The calculations performed by ARGO always take into account the information system status and GOCDB information at the time the calculation is performed, and not that of a certain checkpoint in the past. The implication of this is that any complete recalculation has the risk of altering the results for sites that had correct numbers in the first place. Thus until a solution is found, complete recalculations are avoided whenever possible, and errors are fixed on per site basis for those that have lower number than they should.
- Weighted availability is calculated by multiplying the number of logical CPUs a site published with the published HEPSPEC value in BDII. It is important that these numbers are correct, if HEPSPEC for a site is too high or too low (for example in case of mistake) the overall NGI weighted availability will be affected.
Revision history
Version | Authors | Date | Comments |
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M. Krakowian | 19 August 2014 | Change contact group -> Operations support | |
Alessandro Paolini | 2016-06-08 | Change contact group -> Operations | |
Alessandro Paolini | 2018-08-16 | A/R of NGI Core services no more handled, deleted from procedure; updated some links |