EGI-InSPIRE:Plan 2012 SA1.7

Assessment of progress, 2011

Network Support

https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/File:Network-Support-Objectives_for_2011-v2.pdf

MILESTONE-1: Workflow for handling network-related tickets in GGUS implemented and operational, procedures understood and shared, known. Fully Achieved. There is a workflow in place for the GGUS Network Support Unit. ( Achieved 100 %).

MILESTONE-2: HINTS system up and running, volunteering sites enrolled, pilot phase on-going Fully Achieved : the main server is up and running, pilot sites are using it. ( Achieved 100 %).

MILESTONE-3: HINTS system in production mode, community of sites extended to the whole community of EGI sites willing to join. Partially Achived: some developments are still on going, to consolidate the system and procude ia64 architecture based HINTS probes. ( Achieved 20 % ).

MILESTONE-4: Installation-CD ready and available to the EGI sites for performing measurements and archiving data Achieved, although currently no further support for this task ( Achieved 100 %).

MILESTONE-5: Graphical User interface developed and available, complementing the tool provided functionality Not Achieved : due to lack of manpower, this development thread has been suspended ( Not Achieved )

MILESTONE-6: Periodic reports from the GN3 PerfSONAR community to the EGI Network Support written and distributed. Achieved - although the reports have been mada by means of slides presented at the EGI Net Sup Workshops - and not single DOC or PDF files. ( Achieved 100 %).

MILESTONE-7: Improved NetJobs GUI available Not Achieved : The GUI of the NetJobs tool did not improve : an upgrade has been made to some components to elimiate (Not Achieved)

MILESTONE-8: NetJobs in production mode, new sites enrolled, improved capacity measurements. Not Achieved : no new sites have been enrolled, interest for the tool overall quite low expressed by sites. (Not Achieved)

MILESTONE-9: All approved and used Network Support tools documented Partially Achieved : some documentation has been made available for HINTS, but it is not enough. Documentation for perfSONAR MDM is available ( Achieved 30 %).

MILESTONE-10: GUIs integrated in the operations portal or at least linked by it Not Achieved : This work did not even start mostly due to lack of manpower/resources. ( Not Achieved)

MILESTONE-11: Questionnaire produced and circulated to the NRENs, answers gathered, outcome provided to the EGI/EGI-Inspire Operations community Not Achieved : a general questionare devoted to the NRENs-NGIs interaction was never produced; the emphasis moved to IPv6: a general Survey on it has been organized. (Not Achieved)

Plans for 2012

Network Support

With respect to last year's workplan, some changes have occurred: the support for DownCollector and NetJobs is lacking of manpower and resources, only HINTS and

PerfSONAR MDM are tools with a proper support team, provided by FranceGrille and GEANT3/DANTE respectively.

A new important thread of work related to IPv6 has started-clearly impacting on 2012's plans for EGI Network Support, and involving collaboration with

HEPiX IPv6 WG/WLCG and EGI Inspire JRA1.

MILESTONE 2012-1 EGI IPv6 Testbed in place and start being operational for middleware core services testing

MILESTONE 2012-2 Report on the testing activities and their outcome produced and made available to the Net Sup community, Tech Providers,

MILESTONE 2012-3 MILESTONE 2012-4