1. II EGEE conference Den Haag November, 22-26 2004 ROC-CIC status in Italy luciano.gaido@to.infn.it

2. II EGEE conference – Den Haag November, 22-26 2004 Summary The INFN-GRID Release Resource Centres and supported VOs Services Site certification Support: the Ticketing System Installation activities Ongoing activities Open issues Some useful links

3. II EGEE conference – Den Haag November, 22-26 2004 The INFN-GRID Release INFN-GRID 2.2.0 release is based upon the official LCG- 2.2.0 is 100% compatible Additions to LCG 2.2.0: Added support for DAG jobs; Added support for AFS on the WorkerNodes; Added support for MPI jobs via home syncronisation with ssh; Documented installation of WNs on a private network; Added VOMS+LCAS/LCMAPS: CDF, ZEUS, INFNGRID VOs are managed via a VOMS server. All resources are fully managed via LCFGng

4. II EGEE conference – Den Haag November, 22-26 2004 INFN-GRID: Resource Centres and supported VOs

5. II EGEE conference – Den Haag November, 22-26 2004 INFN-GRID: The Production Grid Services Grid Services are open to all supported VOs Scope: Italian Grid NEW! Resource Broker/UI DAG: prod-rb-01.pd.infn.it

6. II EGEE conference – Den Haag November, 22-26 2004 EGEE/LCG: The Production Grid Services egee-rb-01.cnaf.infn.it supports BIOMED VO RB/UI with DAG support: Grid Services are open to all VOs supported by INFN-GRID and EGEE/LCG

7. II EGEE conference – Den Haag November, 22-26 2004 Site certification Testing if "the grid is working" is not very easy Certification activity in INFN-GRID can be classified into four levels: Local tests by the local resource center managers; Certification tests by CMT* Team; Monitoring tests by CMT Team; Certification on demand, performed by both CMT and Application Teams. * CMT (Central Management Team) corresponding to the ROC+CIC deployment teams according to EGEE execution plan

8. II EGEE conference – Den Haag November, 22-26 2004 Local site tests These tests can be performed by the local resource center manager, just after an installation/upgrade or also after in case of troubles reported by users or found by our periodic test activity ; All nodes:  Check that all nodes are mounting the LCFGng RPM repository from the LCFGng server; CE/SE:  Verify the files access permissions and check the validity and the subject of the host certificate; CE:  Check if the local scheduler works fine locally; SE:  In the SE storage area there should be one directory for each VO supported with permissions and owners; WN:  WNs should have some pool accounts for each supported VOs.

9. II EGEE conference – Den Haag November, 22-26 2004 The Central Management Team is responsible for the Resource Centres certification i.e. checking the functionality of a site before joining the production grid. Although all certification jobs are VO independent, the INFNGRID VO is used to run these jobs; In particular are checked:  GIIS' information consistence;  Local jobs submission (LRMS);  Grid submission with Globus (globus-job-run);  Grid submission with the ResourceBroker;  ReplicaManager functionality;  MPI functionality In order to certificate a site the CMT uses dedicated grid services (TEST ZONE): RB & BDII: gridit-cert-rb.cnaf.infn.it In this way we avoid to have an uncertified site in the production grid service Certification tests

10. II EGEE conference – Den Haag November, 22-26 2004 Periodic tests (monitoring and on-demand) CMT and system managers, could notify advices about their resources via web inserting a “Downtime advices”. The Calendar shows the snapshot of the Production Service Status. Certification jobs are periodically submitted to the sites in order to pro-actively find ‘troubles’ before users find them.

11. II EGEE conference – Den Haag November, 22-26 2004 The Ticketing System The INFN-GRID ticketing system is used for user and operation support by:  users to ask for information or notify troubles;  system managers to communicate about common grid tasks (e.g. upgrading to a new grid release)  CMT to notify a problem to local system managers Interface between OneOrZero and GGUS ready Demo later today

12. II EGEE conference – Den Haag November, 22-26 2004 Installation: migration to SL (1/2) Very hard to deploy LCFGng in different non-HEP sites: Their resources are already installed and managed; the requirement is “give me just the middleware” Often they do not like the “I-will-do-EVERYTHING” approach No worthwhile effort in porting LCFGng to Scientific Linux To study the transition from LCFGng to a working group has been set up; the starting points are: Quattor will replace LCFGng Quattor will be used at CNAF-Tier1 At the moment quattor appears to be too complex for small/medium sites New tools for manual installation of the middleware are available (YAIM) and they seem to be easy to use

13. II EGEE conference – Den Haag November, 22-26 2004 Installation: migration to SL (2/2) For small/medium sites it seems that new YAIM tools are a good solution Easy to use Supported They address the “give me just the middleware” requirement (and without 300 pages to read!) The ROC-IT Installation WG is splitted in 2 sub-groups: quattor and YAIM. Each group will: Learn how the tool works Report suggestions/bugs to the developers Contribute to the development (in a joint effort with LCG/EGEE WG?) Customize it for an easy deployment in the Italian Region (e.g. adding/enabling features like VOMS, DAG jobs, MPI jobs,...) Study a mixed approach (e.g. use quattor but only to configure the middleware)

14. II EGEE conference – Den Haag November, 22-26 2004 Ongoing activities GridICE improvements: job monitoring, application monitoring, SLA monitoring, alarms notification DGAS integration in the INFN-GRID release INFNGRID release porting to Scientific Linux CIC-on-duty shifts Training for local site managers and grid services administrators coming soon Adding new sites (Spaci, Enea, etc) to the production grid Pre-production service in place (and waiting for the new release)

15. II EGEE conference – Den Haag November, 22-26 2004 Open issues The VO deployment procedures have to be defined Application support organization both at regional and global levels has to be defined Tools for allocating resources to a VO still missing Remote management tools and procedures to be developed Need for a realistic gLite deployment plan Need for training the trainees about the new middleware components, services and tools

16. II EGEE conference – Den Haag November, 22-26 2004 Some useful links INFN Production Grid http://grid-it.cnaf.infn.it/ INFN GridICE http://grid-it.cnaf.infn.it/index.php?grisview INFN test and certification http://grid-it.cnaf.infn.it/index.php?sitetest INFN Support http://grid-it.cnaf.infn.it/index.php?id=51 Contact grid-manager@infn.it (it-roc@infn.it)grid-manager@infn.it Grid-release@infn.it