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EGI Core activities:PHASE I

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Message Broker Network

  • Overview. The message broker network is a fundamental part of the operations infrastructure ensuring message exchange for monitoring, the operations dashboard and accounting. As such it is a critical infrastructure component whose continuity and high availability configuration must be ensured.
  • Consortium: GRNET, SRCE
  • Contact: Christos Kanellopoulos, Kostas Koumantaros
  • Funded resources: 5 PMs
  • Total cost: 26550 Euro
  • Duration: 12 months, as of May 01 2014
  • OLA:

Operations Portal

  • Overview. EGI.eu provides a central portal for the operations community that offers a bundle of different capabilities, such as the broadcast tool, VO management facilities, a security dashboard and an operations dashboard that is used to display information about failing monitoring probes and to open tickets to the Resource Centres affected. The dashboard also supports the central grid oversight activities. It is fully interfaced with the EGI Helpdesk and the monitoring system through messaging. It is a critical component as it is used by all EGI Operations Centres to provide support to the respective Resource Centres. The Operations Portal provides tools supporting the daily running of operations of the entire infrastructure: grid oversight, security operations, VO management, broadcast, availability reporting.
  • Consortium: CNRS
  • Contact:
  • Funded resources: 24 PMs
  • Total cost: 157100 Euro
  • Duration: 12 months, as of May 01 2014
  • OLA:

Accounting Repository

  • Overview. The EGI Accounting Infrastructure is distributed. At a central level it includes the repositories for the persistent storage of usage records. The central databases are populated through individual usage records published by the Resource Centres, or through the publication of summarised usage records. The Accounting Infrastructure is essential in a service-oriented business model to record usage information.
  • Consortium: STFC
  • Contact:
  • Funded resources: 12 PM, 4800 Euro of extra cost
  • Total cost: 95469 Euro
  • Duration: 12 months, as of May 01 2014
  • OLA:

Accounting Portal

  • Overview. The EGI Accounting Infrastructure is distributed. At a central level it includes the repositories for the persistent storage of usage records. The central databases are populated through individual usage records published by the Resource Centres, or through the publication of summarised usage records. The Accounting Infrastructure is essential in a service-oriented business model to record usage information. The Accounting Portal provides data accounting views for users, VO Managers, NGI operations and the general public.
  • Consortium: CESGA
  • Contact:
  • Funded resources: 6 PM
  • Total cost: 25380 Euro
  • Duration: 12 months, as of May 01 2014
  • OLA:

SAM central services

  • Overview: Central systems are needed for accessing and archiving infrastructure monitoring results of the services provided at many levels (Resource Centres, NGIs and EGI.EU), for the generation of service level reports, and for the central monitoring of EGI.eu operational tools and other central monitoring needs.
  • Consortium: GRNET, SRCE, CNRS
  • Contact:
  • Funded resources: 28 PM and 2500 Euro of extra costs
  • Total cost: 159900 Euro
  • Duration: 12 months, as of May 01 2014
  • OLA:

Central monitoring services

  • Overview. Infrastructure operations requires in some cases monitoring activities to be run centrally to support specific activities, like monitoring of UserDN publishing in accounting records, GLUE information validation, and of software versions of deployed middleware.
  • Consortium: GRNET, SRCE
  • Contact:
  • Funded resources: 12 PM and 2500 Euro of extra costs
  • Total cost: 64710 Euro
  • Duration: 12 months, as of May 01 2014

Security monitoring and security operations support tools

  • Overview. EGI is an interconnected federation where a single vulnerable place may have a huge impact on the whole infrastructure. In order to recognise the risks and to address potential vulnerabilities in a timely manner, the EGI Security Monitoring provides an oversight of the infrastructure from the security standpoint. Also, sites connected to EGI differ significantly in the level of security and detecting weaknesses exposed by the sites allows the EGI security operations to contact the sites before the issue leads to an incident. Information produced by security monitoring is also important during assessment of new risks and vulnerabilities since it enables to identify the scope and impact of a potential security incident
  • Consortium: CESNET
  • Contact:
  • Funded resources: 4 PMs
  • Total cost (40% EGI.eu co-funding): 25600
  • Duration: 12 months, as of May 01 2014
  • OLA:

Service registry (GOCDB)

  • Overview. EGI relies on a central registry (GOCDB) to record information about different entities such as the Operations Centres, the Resource Centres, service endpoints and the contact information and roles of people responsible for operations at different levels. GOCDB is a source of information for many other operational tools, such as the broadcast tool, the Aggregated Topology Provider, the Accounting Portal, etc.
  • Consortium: STFC
  • Contact:
  • Funded resources: 6 PM and 5581 Euro of extra costs
  • Total cost: 80963 Euro
  • Duration: 12 months, as of May 01 2014
  • OLA:

Operations support services

  • Overview. Auxiliary services and activities are needed for the good running of Infrastructure Services. Examples of such services are VOMS service and VO membership management for infrastructural VOs (DTEAM, OPS), the provisioning of middleware services needed by the monitoring infrastructure (e.g. top-BDII and WMS), and catch-all services for emerging user communities and activities for service level management, service level reporting and service management in general.
  • Consortium: CYFRONET, GRNET
  • Contact:
  • Funded resources: 8 PMs
  • Total cost: 65400 Euro
  • Duration: 12 months, as of May 01 2014
  • OLA:

Security coordination

  • Overview. Security is recognised as an important aspect of e-Infrastructures and requires co-ordination between the EGI participants at various levels, in particular for the prevention and handling of incidents
  • Consortium: STFC, FOM, SNIC
  • Contact:
  • Funded resources: 20 PMs and 17000 Euro of extra costs
  • Total cost: 223371 Euro
  • Duration: 12 months, as of May 01 2014
  • OLA:

Acceptance criteria

  • Overview. The quality criteria are the functional and non functional requirements that a product must fulfill to be released in UMD, these include generic requirement applicable to every product, and specific requirements applicable to the capabilities supported by a component.
  • Consortium: IberGrid
  • Contact:
  • Funded resources: 10 PMs
  • Total cost: 56400 Euro
  • Duration: 12 months, as of May 01 2014
  • OLA:

Collaboration tools/IT support

  • Overview. The task provides the following services for the EGI collaboration, all the services requiring authentication must interface with SSO: EGI.eu Web site hosting and CMS maintenance; EGI main events dedicated webspace; EGI SSO; Including shibboleth access for third party services using SSO as ID provider; Wiki; Mailman; Forum; DocumentDB; Indico; RT; Instant messaging (Jabber); RT must interface with the UMD software provisioning system. Tight cooperation with the provider of the UMD infrastructure is expected; Main DNS for egi.eu domain
  • Consortium: CESNET
  • Contact:
  • Funded resources: 12 PMs
  • Total cost: 76800 Euro
  • Duration: 12 months, as of May 01 2014
  • OLA:

Staged Rollout

  • Overview. The Staged Rollout is a procedure by which certified updates of the supported middleware are first tested by Early Adopter (EA) sites before being made available to all sites through the production repositories. This procedure permits to test an update in a production environment that exposes the product to more heterogeneous use cases than the certification and verification phase. This allows the discovery of potential issues and potentially to add mitigation information to the UMD release notes.
  • Consortium: IberGrid
  • Contact:
  • Funded resources: 10 PMs
  • Total cost: 56400 Euro
  • Duration: 12 months, as of May 01 2014
  • OLA:

Software provisioning infrastructure

  • Overview. The software provisioning infrastructure provides the technical tools to support the UMD release process from pulling packages from the developers repositories to the build of a release.
  • Consortium: GRNET, CESGA
  • Contact:
  • Funded resources: 19 PMs and 12000 extra costs for CESGA
  • Total cost: 119160 Euro
  • Duration: 12 months, as of May 01 2014
  • OLA:

Incident management helpdesk

  • Overview. EGI provides support to users and operators through a distributed helpdesk with central coordination (GGUS). The central helpdesk provides a single interface for support. The central system is interfaced to a variety of other ticketing systems at the NGI level in order to allow a bi-directional exchange of tickets.
  • Consortium: KIT
  • Contact:
  • Funded resources: 12 PMs and 18000 Euro of extra costs
  • Total cost: 124740 Euro (offered in-kind in 2014)
  • Duration: 12 months, as of May 01 2014
  • OLA:

1st and 2nd level support

(merged with second level support)

  • Overview: EGI provides support to users and operators through a distributed helpdesk with central coordination (GGUS). The central helpdesk provides a single interface for support. Software-related tickets that reach the second level of support are analysed and if necessary are forwarded to 3rd line support units only when there are clear indications of a defect (in software, documentation, etc.).
  • Consortium: IberGrid, CESNET
  • Contact:
  • Funded resources: 28 PMs
  • Total cost: 157280 Euro
  • Duration: 12 months, as of May 01 2014
  • OLA:

2nd level support (core platform)

  • merged with 1st level support (above)

2nd level support (community platform)

(merged with the other monitoring and accounting tasks)

Document EGI-InSPIRE Operational Tools Sustainability provides more information about the current technical specifications, support and maintenance activities of the following services: Operations Portal, GGUS, GOCDB, SAM, Messaging, Accounting Repository, and Accounting Portal.