1. CERN-Russia Collaboration in CASTOR Development

2. Cern Advanced STORage Manager

3. 2003: 3 man-months - 1 visit 2004: 6 man-months - 3 visits
Man Power
2003: 3 man-months visit
2004: 6 man-months visits
2005: 7 man-months visits

4. Work performed - I DLF – Distributed Logging Facility
Consists of DLF Server, DLF API, and special programs for configuring/maintenance.
Each CASTOR component can send log messages to the DLF Server for storing them in the Database. ORACLE and MySQL are supported.
DLF API also gives the possibility to write log messages to a file. The messages can be transferred from the log file to the database by using special program dlflogstore.

5. Work performed - II DLF Query GUI
DLF Query is a frontend for viewing log messages from the DLF databases.
Only needed log messages can be selected by using search criteria.
Any Web Browser can be used to view log messages.

6. DLF Query GUI

7. Work performed - III
“Expertd” – generic network service – interface to CLIPS (a tool for building expert systems)
CASTOR security
CASTOR Monitoring tools (Java)
CASTOR DataBase Viewing GUI
Prototype of Garbage Collector
Improvements to the DLF

8. CASTOR Monitoring

9. CASTOR DB Viewing GUI

10. Web Links

11. Further Plans
There is some work which should/could be done. Of course, it depends on the current needs. Examples are:
Improving DLF
Port Oracle PL/SQL code to PostgreSQL
CASTOR Scheduler (other than LSF)
Trying free Oracle Express Edition for small installations
Self-Describing tapes