APEL/Storage
Storage accounting in APEL is based on the StAR (Storage Accounting Record) developed by EMI in conjuction with the OGF Usage Record Work Group (UR-WG).
EMI delivered StAR solutions for dcache and DPM in EMI-3.
In both cases the storage service queries its database at a site and extracts data to populate StAR usage records. The site then uses SSM as a transport method to send the StAR records across the EGI Messaging Service to APEL.
Deployment Instructions
DPM - you need to run 1.8.7 or higher.
While this is still in test mode please send the HostDN to apel-admins@stfc.ac.uk and ask them to authorise you for storage publishing.
dcache and dpm should send one StAR record per VO. Please aet up a cron to run once per day.
Accounting Portal Prototype view