EGI-InSPIRE:Sa1 tasks

This document explains how operational activities map to EGI-InSPIRE SA1 tasks and provides guidance to SA1 staff on how to report activities and effort.

= Task 1: Activity Management = (Task leader: T. Ferrari, EGI.eu) Activities

• (NGI) participation to the Operations Management Board (OMB)
• (NGI) participation to bi-weekly operations meetings
• (NGI and EGI.eu) Review of SA1 and non-SA1 milestones and deliverables

= Task 2: A Secure Infrastructure = (Task leader: M. Ma - STFC, Dep. S. Gabriel - Nikhef)

• (NGI) participation to EGI CSIRT. EGI CSIRT covers all aspects of operational security aimed at achieving a secure infrastructure within EGI. It ensures both the coordination with peer grids and with the NGIs and NREN CSIRTs.
  • Incident Response Task Force (IRTF) Handle day to day operational security issues, coordinates Computer-Security-Incident-Response
  • Security Drills Group (SDG) testing of the inter CSIRT communication channels.
  • Security Monitoring Group (SMG) Develop, deploy and maintain security monitoring tools.
  • Training and Dissemination Group (TDG) Raise security awareness and improve security for system administrators by providing security training and best practice

= Task 3: Service Deployment and Validation = (Task leader: M. David - LIP, Dep. M. Lechner - KTH)

• (NGI) Participation to staged rollout of middleware component updates
• (NGI) Interoperability at the NGI level: operation of multiple middleware stacks and novel resources (virtualization, HPC, etc.), interoperability with regional grids, feeding interoperability requirements into EGI

• (EGI global task) Definition and implementation of a new workflow to automate software deployment cycle, from release of the sw developers to deployment
• (EGI global task) Coordination of the staged rollout activities carried out by the NGIs
• (EGI global task) Liaison with gLite Collaboration release team (interim)
• (EGI global task) Chairing the operations meetings
• (EGI global task) Operational interoperation between NGIs and with international Grids, e.g. of the accounting and monitoring infrastructure, gathering or requirements

= Task 4: Infrastructure for Grid Management = (Task leader: E. Imamagic - SRCE)

• (NGI) Deployment (system management and validation) of regional instance of operational tools:
  • regional Nagios and MyEGI portal (mandatory)
  • regional GOCDB (prototype available)
  • regional operations portal and dashboard
  • regional accounting portal (prototype available)
  • Provide feedback on tool deployment issues and requirements

• (EGI global task) Deployment of central operational tools
  • GOCDB (STFC), operations portal and dashboard C. L'Orphelin (IN2P3), central Nagios-based SAM components and MyEGI W. Lapka (CERN), central messaging infrastructure C. Kanellopoulos (AUTH), central network monitoring tools (downcollector) M. Reale (GARR)
  • Migration plan to EGI.eu domain, failover configurations
  • Coordination of regional deployment of tools (e.g. Nagios)

= Task 5: Accounting = (Task leader: J. Gordon, STFC)

Global services:

O-E-2 Central accounting repository and portal, coord: G. Mathieu (STFC), J. Lopez Cacheiro (CESGA)

NGI International services:

O-N-2 NGI accounting infrastructure

Task 6: Helpdesk Infrastructure (T. Antoni, KIT)

Global services:

O-E-6 Helpdesk, coord: T. Antoni (KIT)

O-E-8 User requirements, G. Sipos (EGI.eu)

NGI International services:

O-N-6 NGI helpdesk system

Task 7: Support Teams (Ron Trompert, SARA)

Global services:

O-E-5 Grid operations oversight (COD): coord. M. Radecki (CYFRONET), R. Trompert (SARA), L. Uljie (SARA)

O-E-7 1st line support (TPM), coord: H. Dres (KIT), A. Paolini (INFN)

O-E-12 Coordination of network support, M. Reale (GARR)

NGI International services:

O-N-5 Oversight (NGI 1st line, ROD)

O-N-7 NGI support team

O-N-9c Resource allocation

Task 8 Providing a Reliable Grid Infrastructure (C. Kanellopoulos, AUTH)

Global services:

O-E-14 Core grid services, coord: C. Kanellopoulos (AUTH)

O-E-13 Best practices and procedures, coord: V. Hansper (CSC)

NGI International services:

O-N-8 Grid core services