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VO Services
Introduction
Setting up and operating a VO is a complex task that requires an important effort for ensuring a high quality of services. Many tools and services are available in EGI that rely on the VO information, and sometimes, procedures are neither easily available nor complete. The EGI VO Services subtask aims at supporting VOs in the whole process of start-up, management and operation, pointing out to tools, services, documentation and procedural guidelines to maximize the usage of the resources.
The VO services activities are summarized in four main points:
- VO Management Support: To set up a central documentation point with procedures, FAQs and a single contact point.
- Promotion of VO activities: To ease the access to tools and services to foster production quality by the users of a VO.
- VO Infrastructure Monitoring: To aid setting up tools for monitoring the resources under the point of view of the VO.
- VO Infrastructure Usage: To support the monitoring on the usage of the resources by the users from a VO or a VRC.
VO Management Support
Consultancy and Support
The GGUS VO Services Support Unit is one of the official communication channel at VO Managers diposal to receive support regarding procedures, services and tools they operate in their daily work. It has been established to provide a closer link with the technical services staff so that VO managers can:
- ask for consultancy services regarding tools and services
- ask for support while operating their VO
- ask for clarification of procedures or documentation improvements
- provide feedback regarding specific tools and/or services
The established workflow assumes that, while interacting with the VO managers, VO Services staff can involve different experts in the discussions, and bridge VO managers requests with the appropriate support units.
Through the interactions with the VO managers, different requirements can emerge. In this case, it is the VO Services Support Unit responsibility to summarize the discussion into a requirement, and insert it in EGI Request Tracker. USCT is then responsible for the requirement follow up.
Documentation for the VO Manager daily work
Promotion of VO activities
VO activities normally consist of a very well defined set of procedures executed on a specific defined order. To minimize time and optimize success, the VO Service team has investigated tools and services available within the EGI community that could be adapted to multi-VO environments. The final goal is to easy the access to those applications aiming to foster production quality by the users of a VO. The following sections present a list of tools and services that could be offered as Emerging VOs.
Services and Tools
Ganga
| Orange | Apple |
| Bread | Pie |
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Evaluation Document: Ganga + Diane + minidashboard evaluation (version 1.0.2) |
Diane
Evaluation Document: Ganga + Diane + minidashboard evaluation (version 1.0.2)
Minidashboard
Evaluation Document: Ganga + Diane + minidashboard evaluation (version 1.0.2)
Complementary Documentation
- Core VO services evaluation (version 1.0.2)
- Survey on monitoring tools (version 1.0.5)
- Ganga + Diane + minidashboard evaluation (version 1.0.2)
VO Infrastructure Monitoring
Members of VRCs and VOs should be able to assess how reliable their production infrastructure is. VRCs and VO members should be able to use integrated tools that run VO specific tests on their infrastructure on a regular basis, and make the results visible for VO and VRC members. Such tools tipically consist of multiple modules:
- An infrastructure testing framework: A component that can host VO/VRC specific tests and run these tests on a regular basis on the infrastructure
- A monitor system: A system that collects test results and makes them visible for VO/VRC members
- An alarm system: A component that can raise alarms whenever a site/service/resource fails a VO-specific test.
Services and Tools
The following proposed tool aim to acomplish the previous defined objectives:
Activity documentation
Workplans
USAG Presentations
Internal schedule
Contacts
- GGUS: VO Services Support Unit
- Mailing list: vo-services@mailman.egi.eu