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This page collects information about surveys relevant to the EGI Opreations Community and the EGI Technology Providers (such as EMI, IGE, etc.). Surveys are conducted to collect information about deployed software, oprational tools and generally speaking to collect feedback from Resource Infrastructure Providers and Resource Centres.
This page collects information about surveys relevant to the EGI Operations Community and the EGI Technology Providers (such as EMI, IGE, etc.). Surveys are conducted to collect information about deployed software, operational tools and generally speaking to collect feedback from Resource Infrastructure Providers and Resource Centres.  


= Usage and future maintenance of deployed software =
* Release date: 06 March 2012
* Deadline for submission: '''20 March 2012'''


== Overview ==
= NGI services provisioning and usage=
Several EC-funded projects that are sourcing code currently deployed in the EGI production infrastructure, will terminate in 2013. Among these are EMI (ARC, dCache, gLite, UNICORE) and IGE (Globus). EGI needs to define the list of software products whose maintenance and supported is considered to be high priority in order to ensure service continuation to the end-users.
The information collected through this survey is of great importance, and will be used by EGI to define a software support plan. Please make sure that your input to the survey is accurate and correctly reflects the position of your community.
Purpose of this survey is to:


*Define the list of products that are considered to be high priority
*Release date: '''19-06-2013'''
*Assess current usage of these high priority products:
*Deadline for submission:'''12-07-2013'''
**which communities are using what
**current workload
*Assess which operations and/or user communities will directly contribute to software development and maintenance after 2013 (last question of the survey)


This survey is targeted to virtual research communities and resource infrastructure providers (EIROs and NGIs, 1 reply per NGI/EIRO), who are responsible of collecting information from their users and resource centres respectively.
== Overview  ==


== Instructions ==
The NGI operations sustainability survey provides indications of little progress in securing new funding to support national operations services to compensate the end of EC funding expected after April 2014 with the end of EGI-InSPIRE. Through EGI-InSPIRE EC currently contribute to the 33% of the operational costs of national grid infrastructures.  
Please participate to the survey by submitting your contribution [https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SW2WK6K here] (''Please, read carefully the overview and the instructions'').


You can find [https://wiki.egi.eu/w/images/0/0a/Survey-usage-support-middleware.pdf here] a PDF version of the survey.
Costs of running operations can be partly reduced by sharing operational services with other NGIs and by increasing their efficiency by centrally coordinating the deployment of core services. With this survey we aim at collecting NGI expressions of interest in exploring some of these deployment scenarios in preparation to the end of EGI-InSPIRE. The results of this survey will be used to plan actions for a transition to the period after EGI-InSPIRE.  


= Platform, software and VM deployment plans=
== Instructions  ==
* Release date: 06 March 2012
* Deadline for submission: 20 March 2012


==Overview ==
Please participate to the survey by submitting your contribution. <big>'''[https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NGI_services_provisioning_and_usage  Click here to take survey]'''</big>.  
Grid software is being provided for multiple OS platforms. For example, the number of platforms supported will increase with EMI 2.0, which is expected in Spring 2012: in EMI 2.0 it is expected that all products will be released for sl6, and a subset also for Debian.
EGI operations consequently need to review the list of early adopter sites, to make sure that staged rollout resources are allocated for testing of software on the platforms of interest.
In addition, EGI SA2 is deploying a new Market Place based on StratusLab. The new Market Place will include different Virtual Machines with different middleware services ready to be used, verified and tested by SA2 team. We need to assess your interest in this service.


All Resource infrastructure Providers are requested to consult with their site managers to define their priorities. Please provide your feedback according to the instructions below.
<big>'''[https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/File:Survey_Federation_of_NGI_services_and_central_coordination_v2_.pdf PDF version of the survey]'''</big>. It is a fill-in form PDF (''Acrobat Reader X'' allows to save forms) and can be used for your convenience, but submit your official answer using the online survey.  


== Instructions ==
== Results  ==
Please participate to this survey by supplying your input at [[operations/Platform_Deployment Survey|here]]


== [[Operations/Platform_Deployment_Survey|Results]] ==
= Use of configuration management tools in the EGI resource centres  =


= [[EGI_Operations_Surveys_%28CLOSED%29|CLOSED Surveys]] =
*Release date:&nbsp; '''2013-01-28 '''
*Deadline for submission:'''*2013-03-01, close of business*'''
 
== Overview  ==
 
The support of the common components of yaim (glite-yaim-core, in the EMI products list) after the end of the EMI project is being discussed, and the product teams responsible of EMI/gLite components currently relying on YAIM, may decide to move to a different configuration mechanism in the future.<br> <br> Several sites are already using various software configuration management tools (e.g. puppet) to deploy their middleware services, and if in the future it will not be possible to set up grid services with a homogenous configuration file (e.g. the site-info.def used by yaim) the deployment and configuration of grid resource centres may rely more heavily on these configuration tools.
 
'''Survey purposes:''' The results of this survey will be used by the EGI Operations Management Board to identify suitable replacements for yaim,for those EGI/gLite products for which yaim support will be abandoned (if this will be the case), and to encourage NGIs and sites to share their current experiences with these tools, and best practices.
 
== Instructions  ==
 
Please participate to the survey by submitting your contribution. <big>'''[https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9TH5T9L Click here to take survey]'''</big>. '''(please, submit one response per site)'''
 
<big>'''[https://documents.egi.eu/document/1557 PDF version of the survey]'''</big>. It is a fill-in form PDF (''Acrobat Reader X'' allows to save forms) and can be used for your convenience, but submit your official answer using the online survey.
 
== Results  ==
* [https://indico.egi.eu/indico/getFile.py/access?contribId=6&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=1234 slides] OMB, March 2013
 
 
 
 
= [[EGI Operations Surveys (CLOSED)|CLOSED Surveys]] =
 
[[Category:Operations_Management_Board]]

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This page collects information about surveys relevant to the EGI Operations Community and the EGI Technology Providers (such as EMI, IGE, etc.). Surveys are conducted to collect information about deployed software, operational tools and generally speaking to collect feedback from Resource Infrastructure Providers and Resource Centres.


NGI services provisioning and usage

  • Release date: 19-06-2013
  • Deadline for submission:12-07-2013

Overview

The NGI operations sustainability survey provides indications of little progress in securing new funding to support national operations services to compensate the end of EC funding expected after April 2014 with the end of EGI-InSPIRE. Through EGI-InSPIRE EC currently contribute to the 33% of the operational costs of national grid infrastructures.

Costs of running operations can be partly reduced by sharing operational services with other NGIs and by increasing their efficiency by centrally coordinating the deployment of core services. With this survey we aim at collecting NGI expressions of interest in exploring some of these deployment scenarios in preparation to the end of EGI-InSPIRE. The results of this survey will be used to plan actions for a transition to the period after EGI-InSPIRE.

Instructions

Please participate to the survey by submitting your contribution. Click here to take survey.

PDF version of the survey. It is a fill-in form PDF (Acrobat Reader X allows to save forms) and can be used for your convenience, but submit your official answer using the online survey.

Results

Use of configuration management tools in the EGI resource centres

  • Release date:  2013-01-28
  • Deadline for submission:*2013-03-01, close of business*

Overview

The support of the common components of yaim (glite-yaim-core, in the EMI products list) after the end of the EMI project is being discussed, and the product teams responsible of EMI/gLite components currently relying on YAIM, may decide to move to a different configuration mechanism in the future.

Several sites are already using various software configuration management tools (e.g. puppet) to deploy their middleware services, and if in the future it will not be possible to set up grid services with a homogenous configuration file (e.g. the site-info.def used by yaim) the deployment and configuration of grid resource centres may rely more heavily on these configuration tools.

Survey purposes: The results of this survey will be used by the EGI Operations Management Board to identify suitable replacements for yaim,for those EGI/gLite products for which yaim support will be abandoned (if this will be the case), and to encourage NGIs and sites to share their current experiences with these tools, and best practices.

Instructions

Please participate to the survey by submitting your contribution. Click here to take survey. (please, submit one response per site)

PDF version of the survey. It is a fill-in form PDF (Acrobat Reader X allows to save forms) and can be used for your convenience, but submit your official answer using the online survey.

Results



CLOSED Surveys