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EGI-InSPIRE:SA1.4-QR3
1. Task Meetings
There are no specific SA1.4 meetings. It was agreed to discuss all deployment issues with operational tool representatives at the JRA1 meetings. Below is the list of JRA1 meetings and subjects relevant for SA1.4 which were discussed.
| Date (dd/mm/yyyy) | Url Indico Agenda | Title | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/11/2010 | https://www.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=209 | InSPIRE-JRA1 phone conf | SAM Update-06 release analysis. Operations portal release. |
| 02/12/2010 | https://www.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=210 | InSPIRE-JRA1 phone conf | Adopting GLUE 2.0 naming in GOCDB discussion. |
| 22/12/2010 | https://www.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=242 | InSPIRE-JRA1 phone conf | Operational tools deployment analysis (Operational tools deployment plans). Operations portal release. |
| 20/01/2011 | https://www.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=212 | InSPIRE-JRA1 phone conf | Finalizing migration from gridops.org to egi.eu. |
| 26/01/2011 | https://www.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=244 | InSPIRE-JRA1 f2f in Amsterdam | Operational tools milestones and regionalization plans. |
2. Main Achievements
Revision of deployment plans of NGI instances of individual operational tools was performed. Information was collected from MS406, MS703, EGEE-III DNA1.6.2 documents and direct response from NGIs. Responses were tracked through the following RT ticket: RT #831.
Monitoring of sites is performed by using OPS virtual organization. At the end of 2010 it was agreed that CERN will continue running the VOMRS service and that the management of VO will be transferred to EGI. At the face to face OMB in Amsterdam it was agreed that VO managers will be Emir Imamagic and Peter Solagna. Initial idea was that there will be a manager per NGI, equivalent to dteam VO. At the OMB it was decided that this schema is too heavyweight as each NGI can have only 2 DNs registered in VO. Decision was made that all operations will be performed by the two VO managers.
The following wiki pages relevant for operational tools were created:
- Operational tools information - page contains brief description about each tool, main links to the tools interfaces and documentation links.
- Operational tools deployment - page contains NGI plans regarding deployment of regionalised versions of operations tools.
3. Issues and Mitigation
| Issue Description | Mitigation Description |
|---|---|
| High availability of central operational tools is needed. | GOCDB: dynamic loadbalancing DNS setup is provided for the address goc.egi.eu, secondary instance will be set up in Fraunhofer institute in the next quarter. SAM: April release of SAM will contain option to install secondary instance, this will be deployed based on depending on NGI size and resources. Operations, accounting portal and metrics portal: services are deployed on virtualization platforms, backups performed regularily, recovery in case of failure can be performed quickly. |
| GOCDB database hardware issues. | GOCDB has recently experienced problems caused by bad database hardware. On January 27th new instance was deployed and all tools were requested to validate the test instance. As the validation was successful migration of GOCDB to new hardware was scheduled for February 2nd. |
4. Plans for the next period
Central MyEGI instance which provides access to data from all NGIs will be deployed at CERN. In addition SAM team will provide specific version of SAM which will enable easy installation of such central MyEGI instance. This activity will be finalized by the end of February 2011.
GOCDB will be migrated to new hardware on February 2nd (see Issues above).
Decommission of gridops.org domain is scheduled for March 14th 2001. All addresses have already been migrated. In case of any issues reported by external tools this date will be moved, but not later than end of March.
Deploy correct web certificates on all central operational tools for the new egi.eu addresses in order to avoid web browser certificate pop-up problem. This activity will be finalized before the decommission of gridops.org domain.
Decommission of the old CIC portal (cic.egi.eu) will be performed between April and June 2011 depending on development of the new Operations portal. The main remaining functionalities which need to be migrated to Operations Portal are broadcast and VO ID cards.
Procedures related to operational tools will be finalized and presented for approval at the OMB in the next quarter.
Contribute and follow discussions of the new task force on regionalization. Update deployment plans of individual NGI instances of tools which will provide regionalized versions in the following period.
Track deployment and validation of remaining regional and NGI Nagioses. Deployment plans of the remaining NGIs are the following:
- UK and Ireland plan to perform NGI creation in the next quarter.
- Asia Pacific ROC Nagios instance has been validated and finalization is planned for the next quarter. For details see GGUS #57154
Track deployment of other operational tools according to their roadmap.
Track development of probes for monitoring operational tools and integration into ops-monitor Nagios instance.
Track and perform planned tests of failover configurations of centralized tools. The ideal customer is GOCDB which will implement failover in the next quarter.