EGI-InSPIRE:SA1.4-QR8

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
02/02/2012	https://www.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=815	InSPIRE-JRA1 phone conf	Deployment of operational tools next releases.
26/04/2012	https://www.egi.eu/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=1023	InSPIRE-JRA1 phone conf	Deployment of operational tools next releases.

2. Main Achievements

APEL team provided list of certificates used for testing the new APEL client. Certificates were authorized on production brokers to use protected SSL access to topics and queues.

GOCDB version 4.3 was released on April 18th. Major change in this version was introduction of service groups (previously known as virtual sites) and new roles. Detailed list of new features can be found in JRA1 section. GOCDB failover instance was deployed at the Fraunhofer institute in Germany, however the failover instance is still running the old version of GOCDB.

Three new versions of Operations portal were deployed in this quarter: 2.9 on Feburary 16th, 2.9.2 on March 26th and 2.9.3 on April 25th. 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. Decommission of the old CIC portal (cic.egi.eu) was performed on April 25th. The old address is now redirected to the Operations portal (operations-portal.egi.eu). Transition from topic to virtual destination in order to improve synchronization between SAM instances and Operations portal is in progress.

In this quarter there were no public SAM releases, only an internal one. Two new NGIs in process of creation deployed SAM/Nagios instances: NGI_MD and NGI_UA. At the end of the quarter following SAM/Nagios instances were in production:

• 26 NGI instances covering 37 EGI partners
• 2 ROC instances covering 2 EGI partners
• 1 project instances covering 1 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.

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 in Fraunhofer institute is still being deployed. Delay is caused by the development and deployment of the new GOCDB version.
Monitoring of underperforming sites.	COD team has proposed monitoring of availability and reliability of sites. In case of decreased A/R alarm would be raised against the site. Such approach would enable sites to correct A/R figures before the end of the month and stay within OLA thresholds. Discussions have started on defining implementation details.

4. Plans for the next period

The decommission of the old CIC Portal is planned for May 2012.

Security Dashboard will be released to production in the next quarter. VO Dashboard will be released to production between March and April 2012.

Deployment of the refactored Operations Dashboard is planned for April / May 2012.

Track and perform planned tests of failover configurations of centralized tools.

Deployment of the new SAM instance dedicated for monitoring operational tools with the new probes provided by operational tools developers.

Integration of DesktopGrids resources into EGI infrastructure.