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EGI-InSPIRE:SA1.4-QR11

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1. Task Meetings

Date (dd/mm/yyyy) Url Indico Agenda Title Outcome
26/11/2012 https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1257 InSPIRE-JRA1 phone conf Tools status update
17/12/2012 https://indico.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1281 InSPIRE-JRA1 phone conf Tools status update

2. Main Achievements

Two upgrades of ActiveMQ brokers performed in November: 7th to version 5.5.1-fuse-08-15 and 20th to version ActiveMQ 5.5.1-fuse-09-16. A complete changelog can be found at the following address: http://fusesource.com/wiki/display/ProdInfo/FUSE+Message+Broker+v5.5.1-fuse+Release+Notes.

GOCDB version 4.4 was released on September 10th. Detailed list of new features can be found in JRA1 section.

One new version of Operations portal was deployed in this quarter: 2.9.6 on September 3rd. The major achievement in new version is implementation of probe for monitoring under-performing sites.. Detailed list of new features can be found in JRA1 section. At the end of the quarter there were four NGI instances: NGI_BY, NGI_CZ, NGI_GRNET and NGI_IBERGRID.

Transition from topic to virtual destination in order to improve synchronization between SAM instances and Operations portal is in progress.


SAM Update-17 staged rollout successfully finished on August 27th. By the end of the quarter 30 instances were upgraded to SAM Update-17. At the end of the quarter following SAM/Nagios instances were in production:

  • 28 NGI instances covering 38 EGI partners
  • 3 ROC instances covering 3 EGI partners
  • 3 external ROC instances covering the following regions: Canada, IGALC and LA.

Detailed list of SAM/Nagios instances can be found on the following page: SAM Instances.

The new SAM instance for monitoring operational tools was deployed in October: https://ops-monitor.cern.ch/nagios. Integration with the central ACE was still in the progress at the end of the quarter.

3. Issues and Mitigation

Issue Description Mitigation Description

4. Plans for the next period

APEL SSM will be rolled into production in the following quarter. In order to enable sites to publish accounting data securely to production message broker network gLite-APEL nodes need to be authorized. Component for retrieving list of gLite-APELs DNs from GOCDB will be implemented and deployed on production message brokers.

A new version of Operations Portal containing availabilities/reliabilities reporting system from perspective of VOs will be deployed in production.