EGI-InSPIRE:Plan 2013 SA1.4

Assessment of progress in 2012

SAM monitoring of operations tools
- Central OPS-Monitor instance (https://ops-monitor.cern.ch/nagios/) was deployed in November 2012 after SAM Update-19 release.
MSG: implementation of test message broker network
MSG: staged message broker network upgrades
- Four staged upgrades performed in 2012: January 31st, June 1st, November 7th and November 28th.
MSG: scalablity improvement
- Automatic closing of inactive STOMP connections after one hour was implemented in January.
MSG: improvement of availability
- Camel routes switched off, SAM uses virtual destinations starting from January.
CIC portal decommissioned
- Decommission of the old CIC portal (cic.egi.eu) was performed on April 25th.
Deployment of VO operations dashboard
- VO Dashboard was included in Operations Portal 2.9, released on February 15th.
Site A/R monitoring
- Probe for site A/R monitoring was included in Operations Portal 2.9.6, released on September 27th.

Automatic notification in case of failure of a central tools (ALARM tickets)
- Initial assessment was performed by the GGUS team. Implementation will be done in 2013. Activity will be performed by the GGUS team as part of SA1.6.

Automatic DNS switching to failover instance
- Automatic DNS switching to dynamically re-point the goc.egi.eu domain still needs to be investigated.

GOCDB v5
- GOCDB v5 is scheduled for release end ~April/May. This will introduce changes to the existing PI (documented at https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Doctrine). This release will require acceptance testing by dependent PTs.
- The failover will need to be updated simultaneously on production release.
- V5 will introduce more non-exclusive scope tags for hosting multiple projects in the same instance (details below). The existing scope PI parameter will support a comma-separated list of scope values rather than exclusive EGI or Local scope values (Aug/Sept).