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EGI-InSPIRE:Italy-QR10

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Quarterly Report Number NGI Name Partner Name Author
QR10 IGI INFN P. Veronesi


1. MEETINGS AND DISSEMINATION

1.1. CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS ORGANISED

Date Location Title Participants Outcome (Short report & Indico URL)
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)
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
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2.
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Et al?
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

  • IGI Portal (https://portal.italiangrid.it) is now accessible for all communities part of IDEM federation.
  • We are developing a new plugin for the IGI portal, in order to make easier the data management task to the Grid end user.
  • We are working on storage solution for providing storage services for scientific gateway

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

  • 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
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.