EGEE to EGI Transition Meeting: User Community & Operations

Session

Moving to NGI Operations

2 Mar 2010, 13:30

Z009 (EGI.eu)

Description

EGEE is based upon a Regional model. EGI will move towards a national model. Some ROCs are already there (single country ROCs) others are easier to migrate (two country ROCs). What is the state of readiness with the rest?

7. Moving from ROCs to NGIs

Tomasz Szepieniec

02/03/2010, 13:30

Experience from CE and the plans for SEE to migrate

8. What do ALL NGIs need to do?

Mario Reale (GARR), Sven Gabriel, Torston Antoni

02/03/2010, 14:00

The move from ROCs to NGIs means new responsibilities for an NGI: * Security: Contacts and Operational procedures (O-E-15 & 16) * Networking: How should you interact with your NREN and networking issues (O-E-12) * Helpdesk: NGI Operations support unit (O-E-5, O-E-6 & O-E-7)

15. What do SOME NGIs need to do?

Mario David

02/03/2010, 15:30

The move from a central to a national structures means that SOME NGIs need to participate actively in some activities: * Middleware Rollout. Sites are needed to put releases of new software services into a production use for communities to verify their ability to operate at production loads. (O-E-9) * Interoperation. Some new software releases will change the public interfaces used by other...

9. Dealing with different middleware

Alexander Papaspyrou, John Gordon

02/03/2010, 16:15

EGI will work to define middleware interfaces that need to be supported in production as opposed to naming specific middleware instances. Operationally, particular middleware distributions will need to be integrated into production. This will have an impact on: * Integration into monitoring tools * Accounting of resource usage into national/central accounting databases * Deployment,...

17. NGI and VO Readiness Survey

Gabriel Zaquine

02/03/2010, 16:45

NA1 has an upcoming deliverable examining the state of the NGIs in preparation for transition. As part of that a survey will be sent out to NGIs and VOs.