Webinar “Operating the TCS shared portals” for NREN admins TCS shared portal project a/TCS_Portal_project Jan Meijer 28 April 2010
room etiquette Please use a headset Please explicitly indicate you have a question: – use the chat to say ‘question’ – start talking but start with ‘I have a question’ audio/video: – less camera’s is better view of the presenter – if your environment is noisy, mute your mic
agenda Opening – extra agenda items? Project status Functionality walk through (Henrik/Thomas) Question round REST/OAUTH API Closing
Project overview Establish and operate a shared web-based portal for the TCS eScience Personal certificate service. Pilot service until 30 April 2011 Started with CESNET, CSC, Forskningsnettet, SUNET, SURFnet, UNINETT Quickly joined by RENATER, ACOnet, GARR BELNET on its way
Portal 2 portals: Personal and eScience Personal Uses ‘Confusa’ software ( 2x2 SURFnet VM servers for resilience High availability 99.81% on 99.99% infrastructure
Project status Portal installations in production since January 2010 EuGridPMA accreditation for eScience Personal secured in February 2010 TCS CAs in production since 15 February Busy connecting federations in February/March/April Fixing Confusa bugs and adding new features in January - April
Project status (2) Software now sufficiently alligned with CPS Change from ‘Setup’ to ‘Production’ planned for 1 April Service production 1 May 2010! sa/TCS_Portal_project
meet the team: tcs-portal-core Henrik Austad Confusa development UNINETT Sigma Thomas Zangerl Confusa development NDGF Joost van Dijk Tech. Product Manager SURFnet Thijs Kinkhorst Portal sysadmin wizzard Tilburg University Teun Nijssen Fixer, PKI-logist Tilburg University Kevin Meynell PDO TERENA Jan Meijer project coordinator UNINETT
Practical Trouble reporting: Other lists: Possible weekly web conf drop-in hour?
what do *you* need to do? Create national procedures that satisfy the CPS Configure NREN admins Configure Subscribers and Subscriber admins Ensure certificate revocation National support!
Portal software dev. done Branding! Robotic Interface! Allow Personal and eScience Personal! Adhere to both CPSes! Configurable in certificates! Language/translation! Improved error-handling, logging, code clean! OAuth! REST!