GLUE 2 information validation - M. Alandes Pradillo/CERN

Tuesday 17 Sept 2013, 11:00 → 12:30 Europe/Amsterdam

Madrid, EGI Technical Forum 2013

Maria Pradillo (CERN)

The glue-validator command is a very useful command for system administrators and middleware developers who want to validate whether the information published by the service they are managing or developing is compliant with Glue 2.0. In particular, the glue-validator is able to validate against the EGI profile for GLUE 2.0 This training will present the glue-validator and how to validate the information published by a site or a resource against the EGI profile for GLUE 2.0. It will describe in detail the different command line options and possible output formats. The training will also explain how to deal with the different failure messages from a practical point of view. An overview of the deployment of GLUE 2 validation in production will be also introduced, explaining what type of errors will raise alarms for the sites and how support to sites will be given by ROD. Finally, some details on the current status of GLUE 2 will be presented, highlighting the most common errors and what to do to get rid of them.

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Slides glue-validator-training-v4.0.pptx

Useful links

• GLUE 2 monitoring twiki
• glue-validator errors
• glue-validator guide

11:00 → 11:30 Part I: Technical details of glue-validator and hands-on tutorial

This session will explain in detail the structure of glue-validator, the command line options and output formats. It will give some practical examples of how to use the glue-validator to validate GLUE 2 information published by a site.

11:30 → 12:00 Part II: GLUE 2 validation in the EGI production infrastructure

This session will explain the deployment of glue-validator as a Nagios probe in the EGI production monitoring infrastructure and how sites may get tickets for critical errors and what they can do to fix them. Some details on the current status of GLUE 2 validation will be presented.

12:00 → 12:30 Part III: Common errors in GLUE 2 publication and how to fix them

This session will give an overview on the most common errors found during the last months while validating GLUE 2 and developing glue-validator. It will focus both middleware developers and sys admins. The session will also give practical guidance on what to do to fix those errors.