1. German Cancio – WP4 developments Partner Logo WP4-install progress CERN, 19/6/2002 German.Cancio@cern.chGerman.Cancio@cern.ch for WP4-install

2. German Cancio – WP4 developments - n° 2 Overview Plans Work done Issues

3. German Cancio – WP4 developments - n° 3 Initial Plans until R2 u For release 1.2 (End of March): n Bugfixes, documentation n LCFG light u For release 1.3 (End of May): n Port new LCFG to EDG and RH62 u For release 1.4 (End of July): n Integrate new HLD configuration language and compiler n CDB->Kickstart translator prototype n Support for RH72 n Integration with monitoring n Investigate CCM integration u For release 2.0 (End of September): n Kept for buffer overflows…

4. German Cancio – WP4 developments - n° 4 Work done (I) Release 1.2: u Released u Moved away from BOOTP to DHCP n Escape 64-byte limitations in options u Some minor tasks on hold due to misc reasons (see progress reports)

5. German Cancio – WP4 developments - n° 5 Work done (II) Release 1.3 – LCFGng u EDG / LCFGng almost released – delay due to critical illness in Edinburgh n Will we be on time for release 1.3? n Heavy testing is required before releasing to development testbed (end of next week!) u LCFGng backported from RH 7.1 to EDG 6.2 n Local dependencies identified & removed in LCFGng components n Most issues solved (e.g. use of different bash versions) n Work now concentrating on base installation components u Edinburgh’s DICE build environment adapted/ported to EDG n Enable usage of same buildtools at EDG and Edinburgh n Conformance with EDG build tools n Almost all EDG+Edinburgh components ported to DICE build environment

6. German Cancio – WP4 developments - n° 6 Work done (III) u LCFGng core libs/tools and components identified and imported into EDG CVS n ~ 20 components imported n More flexibility and robustness by maintaining separated CVS repositories for EDG and Edinburgh -> robustness, site independence u EDG components/libs and EDG modified LCFG components rewritten/ported to LCFGng n ~ 15 components n Includes new components / libraries for improved configuration access, and managing init.d scripts n EDG aims are to use LCFG as system configuration tool only n EDG-LCFG Monitoring components available u New configuration schema: first version to be presented tomorrow by Maite

7. German Cancio – WP4 developments - n° 7 Work done (IV) Release 1.4 & 2.0 u Work on interfacing LCFG with the new HLD. Worked on porting example components from mkxprof to pan. Pan can generate output compatible with experimental LCFGng client. Work on making the.def files optional is ongoing. n Integration is most likely to be labelled as ‘experimental’ (dvp testbed deployment) u The CCM/NVA API discussions tomorrow will have a significant impact on what will be done for R1.4 and 2.0 u Replacing LCFG installer with KickStart/Anaconda: See presentation by INFN tomorrow u Support for RH72: n LCFGng runs natively on RH71 n Porting will be done based on the CERN certified RH72

8. German Cancio – WP4 developments - n° 8 Issues u Multiplatform support n How to manage components for multiple platforms (now: RH62, RH72, in the future: RH X.Y, Solaris?) n How to manage release cycles for different platforms n Learn from other systems (eg. SUE) u HLD integration n We have to weigh backwards compatibility with the need to integrate with the new HLD. u Support for network boot (PXE, bpbatch) n Several solutions exist: CERN (pxelinux), Edinburgh (pxegrub), CNAF (bpbatch?) n Going towards KickStart/Anaconda will increase the choices u Upgrade mechanism n Not sure yet if we can provide a non-intrusive upgrade for RH62 LCFG->LCFGng clients u Documentation, documentation, documentation, docum…