Operations

EGI Operations

Contact information

Contact address: operations at egi.eu

EGI-InSPIRE

Activities

• SA1-specific information on: tasks, activities and coordinators
• All activities and tasks

Milestones and deliverables

• SA1 Milestones
• SA1 Deliverables
• All milestones and deliverables: QR2 | QR1

Quality metrics

• NEW! EGI-InSPIRE SA1 tasks and NGI reports and metrics for QR3 will be collected on wiki.
  • NGI QR Reports and Metrics. Note. Providing NGI reports and metrics is mandatory for EGI-InSPIRE partners. These are provided by the NGI Operations Managers.
  • SA1 Task QR Reports and Metrics. Note. SA1 task reports and metrics are provided by the respective leaders.
• EGI-InSPIRE SA1 Quality Metrics
• EGI-InSPIRE overall project metrics
• EGI-InSPIRE quality assurance

Groups and meetings

Operations Boards and Groups

• Operations Management Board (OMB)
• Operational Tool Advisory Group (OTAG)
• Operations Automation Team (OAT)
• EGI CSIRT
• Grid oversight (COD)

Task forces

• Operational Level Agreement (OLA) Task Force - October 2010.

Mandate: to propose a plan for an extension and further development of the current OLA framework of EGI.

Meetings

Relevant documentation: Operational Level Agreements (OLAs) within the EGI production infrastructure MS404 | OLA roadmap proposal

• Network Support Task Force - October 2010.

Mandate: o propose a strategy and a set of tools and workflows to provide Network Support in EGI.

Network support team and task force

Meetings

Relevant documentation:

Meetings

• Monday operations meetings
• All EGI-InSPIRE SA1 meetings on Indico

Infrastructure

• EGI infrastructure providers

Willing to join ?

Step-by-step instructions for a Grid site

Performance

• Availability and Reliability
• Suspension

Interoperability of EGI operations

• NGIs and other Grids
• UNICORE 6 Nagios sensors implementation

Operational security

Security:Main Page | EGI Computer Security and Incident Response Team | EGI Software Vulnerability Group

Operations tools information

The Operations tools information page provides links to EGI central operations tools, to documentation and gives an overview of the current NGI deployment plans of local tool instances.

Middleware

NEW! EMI services documentation

Distribution process

This section describes the process and procedures to deploy new versions of Grid middleware components and operational tools into the EGI production infrastructure.

• Middleware:Release_Process
• Deploying Software into the EGI production infrastructure, Milestone MS402
• Staged Rollout: list of Early Adopters and software components
• EGI IGTF Release Process

Supported middleware

• NEW! gLite 3.1 end of support schedule, OMB approved, 26 Nov 2010
• Latest releases
• WLCG baseline clients and services

• Procedure for retiring middleware services (to be updated)
• Processes for Maintaining and Enforcing a List of Supported gLite Middleware Service (to be updated)

ARC

• Overview
• Latest release
• Documentation
• Development roadmap
• Release management

gLite

• Latest updates
• release schedule
• Installation and configuration documentation
• gLite user guide

UNICORE

• Download server & central services: Core Server | Workflow System | Common Information Service

• Download clients: Rich Client | Command Line Client | HiLA API
• Documentation

Collecting Requirements

• EGI Operations requirements gathering process, OMB, 21 Dec 2010
• NEW! Nagios test requirements
• NEW! Middleware requirements
• Tool requirements - coming soon
• NEW! EGI Operations Surveys

Resources

Presentations

• Project presentations about operations
• All project presentations
• Other:
  • EGI Operations Requirement Gathering Process, OMB, 21 Dec 2010

Templates

• EGI-InSPIRE presentation template | EGI-InSPIRE document template | EGI-InSPIRE quarterly report template
• Operations news archive
• EGI-InSPIRE project presentation