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Operations Surveys

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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.

Survey on Logging and Bookkeeping capabilities, service management and auditing and gLite-CLUSTER

  • Release date: 18 Jan 2011
  • Deadline for submission: 10 Feb 2011

Overview

  • PART 1, Logging and Bookkeeping Service: Logging and Bookkeeping (LB) it is a monitoring service which gathers, aggregates and archives information on infrastructure behaviour from the perspective of users' tasks. The EMI project aims at extending the LB scope and its further integration with other grid services. The first page of the survey contains a set of questions to help LB Team to better design the new features of the LB Service, and to target the real users' needs.
  • PART 2, Remote Grid Service Management (RGSM). Management is performed through a set of notifications issued to the relevant Grid service instance. Examples of management actions are: start, stop, drain etc. The RGSM framework can be used for remote management of a service. EMI has a dedicated task force to investigate the requirements for common service monitoring and management interfaces. This survey is to collect information and requirements from the EGI operations community and sites to understand which technologies are of interest for service management.
  • PART 3, Grid service auditing (GSA), that is a feature that allows a system administrators and users to check the status of a service in terms of load, length of internal queues, and to monitor service workload from a grid point of view over time. Service auditing is different from Nagios-based monitoring as it is not based on probes, but rather on the periodic gathering of service status information.
  • PART 4, gLite CLUSTER, glite-CLUSTER allows the configuration of information related to the batch system environment to be separated from the configuration of the job submission interface. With this service sites will be able to publish their resources information consistently and without any workaround. Even in case of multiple CEs or cluster with heterogeneous hardware configuaration. There are few questions to understand how the publishing of cluster information is a problem for site managers.

Instructions

The survey needs to be completed on-line on zoomerang (submission via e-mail or other form is not accepted). Every NGI is requested to collect feedback internally and to provide them through a single submission. NGIs that are operated by a multi-country federated Operations Centre can submit their feedback either individually or through their Operations Centre. Note that the survey needs to be submitted at one time (it cannot be saved and re-edited at a later time).

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Resources

  • pdf version of the survey