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The Service Availability Monitoring (SAM) system is used to monitor the resources within the production infrastructure. SAM monitoring data is used for calculation of availability and reliability of grid sites.

SAM Nagios probes re-factoring TF

SAM tool instances

Documentation

Introduction

SAM Tests terminology and types

SAM Test

Test is a procedure which checks specific functionality of a given service, i.e. single measurement (e.g. org.bdii.Freshness, hr.srce.RGMA-CertLifetime). Tests are executed on NGI/ROC SAM instances.

A SAM test is:

  • an OPERATIONS test which raises alarms in the Operations Portal (see list of OPERATIONS tests)
  • an AVAILABILITY test whose result is used for Resource Centre availability calculation by ACE (see the ROC_CRITICAL profle)

NOTE: CRITICAL is used ONLY to refer to one of the possible results returned by a Nagios probe.

Probe

Probe is code which implements single or multiple tests.

Metric

Metric instances are tuples of flavour, metric name and optionally FQAN (POEM documentation). Metric is a synonym for tests used in the development documentation. In operations document "test" is the reference term to be used.

POEM Profile

POEM (Profile Management Database, former Metric Description Database) aims to describe existing metrics and group (profiles) them in order to run tests. In addition it should define actions that can either configure the way the availability and reliability is computed or allow notifications to messaging system.

A POEM is a profile as a triple of (vo, atp_groups and metric instances) where:

  1. set of atp_groups is a set of service instances defined in the Aggregated Topology Provider via a VO feed, e.g. LHCb_Site LCG.CNAF-T2.it= (service_instance1, service_instance2, etc.)
  2. set of (service_flavor, metric, fqan) tuples
    1. metric is fully qualified name of the metric (e.g. hr.srce.SRM2-CertLifetime)
    2. service_flavor is taken from ATP (e.g. CE, SRM, etc.)
    3. FQAN - voms role to use for the tests (e.g. /Role=lcgadm) - as metric1 is run with fqan1, metric1 with fqan2, etc.
  3. VO: is the name of the VO

In other words, the profile is a cartesian product of service groups and metrics, plus VO.

New Administration Guide

Please use this guides to install SAM Nagios "Update 23" instance - SAMUpdate23

Administrator guides

Probes

Developers guides

Support

This section collects all information related to the SAM team support activities.

  • Support to EGI:
    • Incidents and bugs affecting the SAM services are managed via GGUS tickets. These tickets follow a support line of three levels:
      • 1st Level Support: carried out by the EGI TPM
      • 2nd Level Support: carried out by the "ARGO/SAM EGI Support" SU
      • 3rd Level Support: carried out by the "SAM-Nagios Experts" SU
      • New requirements and coordination topics are discussed at OTAG meetings.
    • Other topics (different from incidents, bugs, requirements, coordination) are managed on a best effort basis, on the SAM EGI mailing list (argo-ggus-support AT grnet.gr).

SAM-related Procedures

  • Validate ROC or NGI Nagios Procedures: PROC05
  • Setting a Nagios test status to OPERATIONS: PROC06
  • Adding new probes to SAM: PROC07
  • Management of the EGI OPS Availability and Reliability Profile: PROC08

Resources

  • Andreade, P.; M. Babik, M.; Bhatt, K; Service Availability Monitoring Framework Based On Commodity Software; CHEP12, March 2012 (poster)