EGI-InSPIRE:SA1.7-QR5

1. Task Meetings

Date (dd/mm/yyyy)	Url Indico Agenda	Title	Outcome

2. Main Achievements

Grid Oversight

ROD teams news letter

The transition from EGEE to EGI InSPIRE came about with a lot of changes. For Operations, the EGEE Regional Operations Centres, called ROCs, are in the process of being dismantled and their responsibilities transferred to the NGIs, or have already completed this process. In the EGI era, ROD teams will monitor the quality of sites in their country or region, whereas COD is responsible for the global oversight over the whole EGI infrastructure. This is to provide a high-quality grid infrastructure to the user communities. These changes have also leaded us to think about how COD and ROD are going to interact with each other in this new setting. During the Grid Oversight session at the EGI Tech Forum it was made clear to us that people find it cumbersome to travel in order to have regular face to face meetings. Nevertheless, we do feel the need to create and maintain a coherent and alive Grid Oversight community and to have interaction between ROD and COD that goes beyond the dashboards. This is necessary, in our view, to create a top-quality grid infrastructure for our users. For this reason we have created this newsletter. The purpose of this newsletter is to inform you about recent and upcoming developments related to Grid Oversight and to show to you the metrics indicating how well we did the past month. We have published newsletters since december 2011. We will continue to do this on a monthly basis. This quarter we have published a newsletter in may and june.

ROD session at EGI TF

We will organise a ROD teams session at the EGI TF in Lyon. We have come up with a programme that will be published on the web soon.

Procedures

We have proposed a change to the escalation procedure which entails the removal of an unnecessary step.

Tutorial Videos

The set of tutorial videos described in the QR4 report has been finished.

TPM

Nothing in particular to report on this task except that the change of TPM shift between the Italian and German TPM teams take place at the same local time (regardless of summer or winter time), at 14:00.

Network Support

Further testing of HINTS has been carried out both in France and in Italy. Probes have been installed in Bologna at INFN CNAF, in Rome at INFN Roma Tre and GARR; in Toulouse and Paris. A development server has been set up in Paris and a production one is located in Rome. The test of the system has started and feedback has been provided to the developers. This will improve the quality of the tool, including the documentation. Cross registration of probes between the French and Italian sites has been carried out. Participation of the EGI NetSup coordination team to the HEPiX IPv6 Working Group has been organized and the first 2 meetings have been attended. A brain storming session with GEANT3 PERT has been organized and basic ideas have come out for fruitful collaboration. They will be reported by a forthcoming short document.

3. Issues and Mitigation

Issue Description	Mitigation Description
Grid Oversight: None
TPM: None
Network Support: None

4. Plans for the next period

Grid Oversight

1. Continue investigation of the impact on operations support model related to new middlewares in EGI.

2. Continue the investigation on how to improve availability and reliability metrics.

3. Evaluation of upcoming new releases of the operational dashboard.

TPM

Nothing in particular to report except continuing the work as usual.

Network Support

Keep carrying out the testing and validation campaign for HINTS, pS DVD e2e Live DVD and NetJobs and present the tools in September at the EGI NetSup workshop OMB during the EGI TF in Lyon. Organize a questionnaire on IPv6 for the NGIs.