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Inspire reports menu: Home SA1 weekly Reports SA1 Task QR Reports NGI QR Reports NGI QR User support Reports


1. Task Meetings

Date (dd/mm/yyyy) Url Indico Agenda Title Outcome
weekly (phone): Participants Maria Dimou, Helmut Dres, Guenter Grein https://www.egi.eu/indico/categoryDisplay.py?categId=27 "shopping list" meeting traceable at: https://savannah.cern.ch/projects/esc/ and https://rt.egi.eu/rt/Dashboards/2636/GGUS-Requirements
monthly (web conf): Representatives from EMI, EGI, IGE, NGIs, GGUS team, WLCG https://indico.egi.eu/indico/categoryDisplay.py?categId=78 GGUS Advisory board meeting Further development of GGUS system
need driven no INDICO URL one on one meetings with NGI interface developers testing the interfaces, resolving interface issues
need driven no INDICO URL meetings with EGI-SA2 /EMI /IGE definition of the technology support workflows and their implementation

2. Main Achievements

Report Generator

Most features of the Report Generator went online with the Feb release. However some minor changes are still to be done: RT 4750 RT 4752

GGUS structure

Support units

Decommissioned support units

  • "gLite Release Pages and Repository"
  • "NGI_ZA"

New support units

  • "UI WN Tarball"

VOs

Decommissioned VO

  • "ict.vo.ibergrid.eu"
  • "demo.vo.edges-grid.eu"
  • "vo.sixt.cern.ch"
  • "vo.gear.cern.ch"
  • "israelvo.isragrid.org.il"

Introduced new VO

  • "ops.ndgf.org"

Review of VOs with low number of tickets or without any tickets in GGUS and checking the members of the VO mailing lists.

GGUS web portal

  • New "Did you knows?" about the following topics:
 - Info about team and alarm members/tickets
 - Ticket relation in GGUS
 - Brief instruction how to process GGUS tickets
  • Decommission of the software release dashboard
  • Implementation of an ticket monitoring dashboard (only visible for authorised staff)
  • New info pages for TEAMers and ALARMers

GGUS system

  • Finished migration of GGUS mail boxes to new KIT mail infrastructure.
  • Clarified meaning of status "waiting for reply".
  • Review of VOs providing support via GGUS.

Interfaces with other ticketing systems

  • Fixed bugs in interface to CERN SNOW.
  • Implementation of interface for IBERGRID RT ticketing system.
  • Updated interface with NGI_CZ RT due to system migration of RT.
  • Updated GGUS host certificate.

Alarm tests after GGUS releases

  • Executed the alarm and interface tests after GGUS releases.

High availability

  • Skipped auto-switching approach. Switching to the backup machines will be done using a management script that can be run by GGUS admins or the KIT on-call service at any time.

3. Issues and Mitigation

Issue Description Mitigation Description
Collaboration of GGUS with CSIRT CSIRT decided not using GGUS.
Collaboration of GGUS and PRACE This action is postponed as it has only low priority for PRACE at the moment.

4. Plans for the next period

GGUS report generator

Implement some minor requirements that came up lately.

GGUS structure

  • Integration of Operations Portal in GGUS. This action is postponed as requested by Operations Portal admins.
  • Implement a SAML/Shibboleth based access to GGUS.
  • Fully integrate CMS VO in GGUS and retire interface to Savannah.
  • Migrate GGUS shopping list from Savannah to JIRA.

Interfaces with other ticketing systems

  • Implement interface to PRACE RT system.
  • Implement interface to DANTE ticketing system.