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Recent Completed Developments

Current Developments

See GOCDB/Release4/Feedback : This page groups all feedback received on the new system.

The list of [GOCDB development items is available in the EGI RT ticket tracker]

These are the developments we are currently working on. They come from the agreed development list, as defined by the Operational Tools Advisory Group (OTAG) who filters and prioritizes user requests. As of July 2011, development plans are focused on supporting a regional synchronizing GOCDB instance.

Regional Syncing GOCDB

The following tasks need to be completed to produce a regional syncing GOCDB instance. "DONE" means completed in our current development version of GOCDB and not necessarily put into production.

  • Enable database level tagging to allow scoping of data - DONE
  • Modify PI queries to be scope aware (e.g. get_downtime?scope=Regional) - DONE
  • Atomic database access - IN PROGRESS
  • Add scoping capability to the web portal - IN PROGRESS
    • This is being achieved through MVC implementation of inserting / editing objects
      • Add / Edit Service Endpoint - DONE
      • Add / Edit Site - IN PROGRESS
      • Add / Edit Downtime
      • Add / Edit User
      • Add / Edit Role
  • Remove old Non-MVC code
  • Remove old XML Input code
  • Indicate what scope data has in the web portal
    • When viewing an individual object
    • When viewing a table of objects
  • Add scope specific web portal views
    • View Local Sites
    • View EGI Sites
    • Scope Specific Search
  • Create transfer mechanism
    • Identify changed data
    • Expose changed data through the PI
    • Authenticate data sources
    • Validate exposed data
    • Add / Edit Objects
    • Confirm data has been successfully synchronized
  • Native downtime viewing mechanism (Ops portal solution won't work for regional GOCDB)
  • Create standard package creation process
  • Define release process
  • Documentation
    • Installation
    • Common maintenance tasks
    • Answers to common queries
    • NGI Specific Modification of a Regional GOCDB
      • Modifying the front end
      • Querying the database

Other Developments

  • Explicitly indicate if all SEs of a site are in downtime through the PI
  • Redevelop the xml_output module to implement nested XML collections, probably using the Query2XML package. This is necessary because the existing XML Output module will only generate flat XML documents (e.g. that often map to individual DB entities). Currently SQL joins/associations between Sites, SEs and URLs cannot be represented as hierarchical/nested XML documents (for example, consider nesting multiple EndpointLocation objects/URLs in the ServiceEndpoint XML, see: Media:GocdbGlue2UnicoreV2.pdf).
  • Support for 'Virtual Site Entities (VSite)' There is a requirement to group existing Service Endpoints (currently grouped under their corresponding 'owning' physical Site) under a new 'Virtual Site' entity. See: https://rt.egi.eu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=987 and https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/Logical-site
    • At present, the proposed features of a VSite will include (see Media:VirtualSitesDesign.pdf‎):
      • A VSite will be a separate GOCDB entity, and will have users and other attributes much like an existing physical site but with different rules (described below). Importantly, we believe this grouping has to be a new gocdb object in order to clearly define the intended semantics of the grouping (e.g. both a 'VSite' and an imaginary 'VService' could both group many SEs, but a VSite has very different semantics to a VService !).
      • A VSite will be used to group existing Service Endpoints only (i.e. SEs that have already been created under their owning physical Site).
      • A VSite cannot group new SEs that have no owning physical site.
      • A single SE may only have a single parent physical Site (i.e. GOCDB cardinality of 1 between Site and SE)
      • A single SE can have many parent VSites (requires GOCDB cardinality of 'many-to-many' between Virtual Site and SE).
      • New PI queries are proposed to support querying of VSites and querying of SEs that are grouped under a VSite (much like the existing get_site and get_service_endpoint methods (https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/GOCDB/PI/get_service_endpoint_method and https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/GOCDB/PI/get_site_method ). The following XML example is related: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/pub/Main/ATPVOFeeds/atp_vo_feed_example.xml
      • The permissions model of a VSite is not yet well defined. It is currently proposed that users with a role over the owning physical site should maintain their cascading permissions over their SEs (i.e. no modification to the current site/permissions model), however, users with a role over the VSite will not have any cascading permissions over the SEs. Consequently, this has the following important implications;
        • A VSite could not be used to declare a downtime for all its member SEs.
        • Similarly, users with a role over the VS will not be able to update/modify a member SE.
      • If VSite permissions are required (e.g. for declaring SE downtimes and modifying SEs), then a user may have to request a new role under the physical site or be granted a corresponding permission. These requirements are currently undefined.


development item Estimated release Estimated date
Provide a production quality package for GOCDB regional module 4.0d7 Oct 2010
Improvement of GOCDB failover system and backend replication 4.0.1 May 2011
New service endpoint URL associations for new service types (see above) ? April/June 2011
Re-develop GUI Logic (see above) ? Sept 2011 (EGI-Y2)
Update/refactor role model for finer grained permissions (see above) ? EGI-Y2
Data scoping by tagging GOCDB entities (see above) ? EGI-Y2
Regionalisation GOCDB/Release4/Regionalisation ? EGI-Y2/3
Work on GOCDB and Operations Portal common front end ? EGI-Y2
GOCDB interface to the dynamic information system (BDII/GluE) ? EGI-Y3