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APEL Message Format

Please note: we have changed the formats of the job record message and the summary record message, to bring them in line with the EMI Compute Accounting Record. You can find a definition of the EMI CAR here: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/EMI/ComputeAccountingRecord. The document includes the definition of the Aggregated Usage Record (AUR) which is equivalent to our summary records.

This describes a new message format for getting data between the APEL clients and the server.

It also describes the mapping between its fields and those of the EMI Compute Accounting Record (CAR), described here: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/EMI/ComputeAccounting.

Terminology:

  • A message is one file which is sent and received by the SSM. Usually a message will contain a number of records (eg 1000)
  • A record corresponds to one row in the database. It contains a number of key-value pairs as specified by the tables below
  • The header in each message tells the server which type of records are in that message. You need one header per message, so one header per file.
  • Epoch time, also known as a Unix timestamp, is an integer number of seconds since 1st January 1970. For example, the epoch time now is 1311675474. The command date +%s will give you the current epoch time on linux.

Optional fields:

  • If you do not have a value for a field in a record, use "null" or "none" (not case-sensitive) as the value for this attribute OR leave the field out of the record completely.
  • This applies to all the optional fields in JobRecords and Summary records.


Job Records

A message is one file. It can contain multiple records. Different records must be separated by the end of record marker (%%).

Description

Header APEL-individual-job-message: v0.3

The header only appears once at the top of each message (that is once at the top of each file). It defines the type of record and the schema version.

The table shows the equivalent field in the CAR, under the container element urf:UsageRecord. If not specified, it refers to the text value of urf:Key, where the element is a direct child of urf:UsageRecord.

Key Value Description Mandatory CAR equivalent (if different)
Site String GOCDB sitename Yes urf:Site[@type="gocdb"]
Infrastructure String grid OR local
SubmitHostType String CE-ID OR LRMS
SubmitHost String The CE-ID (see example) OR LRMS hostname Yes
LocalJobId String Batch System Job ID Yes urf:JobIdentity/urf:LocalJobId
LocalUserId String Local username urf:UserIdentity/urf:LocalUserId
GlobalUserName String User's X509 DN urf:UserIdentity/urf:GlobalUserName
FQAN String User's VOMS attributes urf:UserIdentity/urf:GroupAttribute[@type="FQAN"]
WallDuration int Wallclock time for the job (seconds) Yes CAR has ISO 8601 time duration
CpuDuration int CPU time for the job (seconds) Yes CAR has ISO 8601 time duration
Processors int Number of processors urf:Processors[@mteric="max"]
NodeCount int Number of nodes
StartTime int Start time of the job (epoch time) Yes CAR has ISO 8601 datetime
EndTime int Stop time of the job (epoch time) Yes CAR has ISO 8601 datetime
MemoryReal int Memory consumed by job (kbytes) urf:Memory[@metric="max" and @type="Physical" and @storageUnit="KB"]
MemoryVirtual int Virtual memory consumed by job (kbytes) urf:Memory[@metric="max" and @type="Shared" and @storageUnit="KB"]
ServiceLevelType String Si2k OR HEPSPEC Yes urf:ServiceLevel[@type]
ServiceLevel double Value of either HepSpec06 or SpecInt2000 Yes urf:ServiceLevel


End of record:  %%

Changes since version 0.2

  • Infrastructure field (optional)
  • SubmitHostType field (optional)

Changes from version 0.1 to version 0.2

  • LocalJobID has changed to LocalJobId
  • LocalUserID has changed to LocalUserId
  • UserFQAN has changed to FQAN
  • ScalingFactorUnit has changed to ServiceLevelType
  • The possible values of ScalingFactorType have changed from ["SpecInt2000", "HepSpec06", "custom"] to ["Si2k"], ["HEPSPEC"]
  • ScalingFactor has changed to ServiceLevel


Notes

If GlobalUserName or UserFQAN is not published, the value for these fields on the server will be set to 'None'.

Jobs are assumed to be grid jobs. To specify local jobs:

  • Infrastructure: local
  • SubmitHostType: LRMS
  • SubmitHost: <LRMS-hostname>

The Group value specified for local jobs must be different to equivalent grid jobs, or you will not be able to differentiate them in the accounting portal. Suggestion:

  • Group: atlas - grid job
  • Group: local-atlas - local job

This advice may change as we get more sites publishing local jobs.

Example Message

APEL-individual-job-message: v0.2
Site: RAL-LCG2
SubmitHost: ce01.ncg.ingrid.pt:2119/jobmanager-lcgsge-atlasgrid
LocalJobId: 31564872
LocalUserId: atlasprd019
GlobalUserName: /C=whatever/D=someDN
FQAN: /voname/Role=NULL/Capability=NULL
WallDuration: 234256
CpuDuration: 2345
Processors: 2
NodeCount: 2
StartTime: 1234567890
EndTime: 1234567899
MemoryReal: 1000
MemoryVirtual: 2000
ServiceLevelType: Si2k
ServiceLevel: 1000
%%
...another job record...
%%
...
%%

Summary Job Records

A new version of the summary message format for use by accounting clients other than EMI 3 APEL is currently in development.

Description

Summary Sync Records

The summary Sync records are used for the creation of the apel-sync Nagios test. It is a mechanism for the central APEL server to know the number of records that each site is storing locally. It is in general only used by sites which publish via the standard APEL client.

Description

Header: APEL-sync-message: v0.1

The header only appears once at the top of each message. It defines the type of record and the schema version.

Key Value Description Mandatory
Site String GOCDB sitename Yes
SubmitHost String CE ID Yes
NumberOfJobs int Total number of jobs for that month Yes
Month int Month Yes
Year int Year Yes







End of record: %%

Notes:

Each record indicates the number of jobs run on the site per month. This data is used to create the Nagios apel-sync test.

Example Message

APEL-sync-message: v0.1
Site: RAL-LCG2
SubmitHost: raltest.rl.ac.uk:8443/cream-pbs-demo
NumberOfJobs: 3479
Month: 1
Year: 2010
%%
...another sync record...
%%
...
%%