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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.
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.  


= Federation of NGI services and central coordination =
* Release date: 19-12-2012
* Deadline for submission: 22-12-2012


== Overview ==
= NGI services provisioning and usage=
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.
*Release date: '''19-06-2013'''
*Deadline for submission:'''12-07-2013'''


== Instructions ==
== Overview  ==
Please participate to the survey by submitting your contribution [ here].


You can find a PDF version of the survey [ here]. 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.
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.  


== Results ==
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.


= Sustainability of the EGI/NGIs operations service =
== Instructions ==
* Release date: 24 July 2012
* Deadline for submission: '''07 September 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>.
* Release date: 24 July 2012
* Deadline for the submission: '''07 September 2012'''


With this survey, we aim to collect information about the sustainability of NGI operations services and EGI global operations services beyond 2014.
<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.  


Information gathered through this survey will be used:
== Results  ==
- to provide information for D4.7 'Sustainability assessment of operational services'
- to prepare the workshop on the sustainability of national infrastructures planned for the next EGI Technical Forum (see workshop description)
- to evolve operations in the coming two years of EGI-InSPIRE towards a more sustainable model


== Instructions ==
= Use of configuration management tools in the EGI resource centres  =
Please participate to the survey by submitting your contribution [https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8R3JMC5 here].


You can find a PDF version of the survey [https://wiki.egi.eu/w/images/9/9e/Survey_29541291.pdf here]. 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.
*Release date:&nbsp; '''2013-01-28 '''  
*Deadline for submission:'''*2013-03-01, close of business*'''


== Overview  ==


= Resource Allocation Policies =
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.
* Release date: 17 July 2012
* Deadline for submission: '''07 September 2012'''


== Overview ==
'''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.  
Support of new international user communities across EGI requires the access to a portion of resources at NGI and Resource Centre level. However, policies for capacity allocation differ greatly across NGIs, and in some cases across Resource Centres of a given NGI.
Purpose of this survey is to collect information about individual policies in use for better '''capacity management''' across EGI.


ITIL defines '''capacity management''' as ''The Process responsible for ensuring that the Capacity of IT Services and the IT Infrastructure is able to deliver agreed Service Level Targets in a Cost Effective and timely manner. Capacity Management considers all
== Instructions  ==
Resources required to deliver the IT Service, and plans for short-, medium- and long-term Business Requirements''.


The survey is targeted to '''NGI Operations Managers'''. Operations Managers are requested to collect information from individual site operations managers, in case of policies which differ across sites in the NGI.
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)'''


== Instructions ==
<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.  
Please participate to the survey by submitting your contribution (1 reply per NGI) [[operations/Resource_Allocation| here]]. Feedback must be provided involving sites, if resource allocation policies are site-specific.


== Results ==
== Results ==
* NGI [https://documents.egi.eu/document/1385 feedback]
* [https://indico.egi.eu/indico/getFile.py/access?contribId=6&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=1234 slides] OMB, March 2013
* Survey [https://indico.egi.eu/indico/contributionDisplay.py?sessionId=77&contribId=221&confId=1019 overview]


= [[EGI_Operations_Surveys_%28CLOSED%29|CLOSED Surveys]] =
 
 
 
= [[EGI Operations Surveys (CLOSED)|CLOSED Surveys]] =
 
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Latest revision as of 11:29, 20 June 2013

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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