Alert.png The wiki is deprecated and due to be decommissioned by the end of September 2022.
The content is being migrated to other supports, new updates will be ignored and lost.
If needed you can get in touch with EGI SDIS team using operations @ egi.eu.

EGI-InSPIRE:Sa1 2013-03-05

From EGIWiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Main EGI.eu operations services Support Documentation Tools Activities Performance Technology Catch-all Services Resource Allocation Security


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


Progress of SA1 issues

Nothing new to report.

Milestones/Deliverables

SA1.1 Activity Management

MEETINGS

  • EGI Operations meeting, chaired and agenda preparation
  • Federated cloud taskforce
  • GGUS Advisory board, chairing, minutes preparation, contribution to the agenda with input, progress on GGUS
  • meeting on reuse of operations tools for research infrastructures
  • EduPert meeting for continuation of network troubleshooting activities in collaboration of NRENs and DANTE, discussion of strategy for perfsonar support in GGUS

ACTIVITIES

  • definition of GLUE 2 activity roadmap
  • Developing GLUE2 cloud extension - in progress
  • Discussion with security groups about an extended user emergency suspension policy, to be shared with WLCG
  • Fedcloud testbed information system maintenance
  • Follow up of a problem with StoRM frontend which may prevent the upgrade to EMI-2
  • assessment of status of gLite 3.1/3.2 upgrade progress, followup in tickets, discussion of suspension policy in collaboration with COD
  • assessment of readiness of EMI 1 probes for the start of the EMI 1 decommissioning campaign, coordination of start of campaign on 04 March. Development of probes for the entire EMI 1 stack in time for the start of the campaign was impossible due to a number of issues with version publishing in BDII. The number of services currently monitored is still incomplete.
  • review of GGUS ticket workflows for middleware support in case of unresponsiveness in preparation to the the end of EMI and IGE
  • discussion of GGUS service levels as proposal to PTs after EMI/IGE
  • discussion of calendar for the start of the enforcement of the policy of private data retention
  • discussion of next steps for MPI monitoring in nagios
  • assessment of comments to business logic of probe for automated monitoring of userDN publishing
  • call of input of UCB to the agenda of Cf13

SA1.2 Security

2-week report as D Kelsey was on leave last week

  • SVG - monthly meeting held
  • CSIRT monthly team meeting held
  • SVG - 4 advisories issued following new software releases
  • SVG - 1 new vulnerability reported, affected small number of sites ( Software not in UMD). Provider fixed and contacted sites using their software. IRTF sees this as sufficient therefore closed without SVG advisory to all sites.
  • Presentation at OMB on Central CSIRT user banning/emergency suspension
  • SSC-NGI - supporting and preparing for first NGI run
  • Another local root vulnerability has been investigated, but not found to be a major problem for our infrastructure - it does not affect RHEL5/6-type of distributions.
  • Finalised CSIRT plans for 2013 - and presented them at OMB
  • Work on posters and talk for EGI CF
  • Planning for training at ISGC 2013
  • First draft of compromised certificate handling procedure produced

SA1.3 Staged rollout

Preparation of staged rollout of WN tarball. Definition of WN tarball support policy and future support in GGUS.

SA1.3 Integration

Nothing new to report.

SA1.4 Central tools

  • New release of GGUS deployed (https://operations-portal.egi.eu/broadcast/archive/id/879)
  • Preparation & participation in JRA1 meeting (all teams)
  • EMI-1 probes:
    • turned all tests to CRITICAL on Saturday March 2nd
    • campaign officially started on Monday March 4th
    • added ARC-CE probe
    • discussion & improvement of DPM probe
    • call broadcasted to sites to add VOMS and ARGUS to GOCDB/Site-BDII
  • discussion about the new userDN probe continued, Accounting portal will prepare API by the end of the week

SA1.5 Accounting

Repository

Portal

SA1.6 Helpdesk

SA1.7 Support

Software Support

Network Support

SA1.8 Availability and core services

Documentation

Nothing new to report.

Meetings