1. Current Status Work Package Three By: Mohamed Elshamy

2. Current Progress Solving installation issues in grid node in Egypt. Registering the grid site in Egypt on GOCDB. Learning Ansible. Ansible is attempted to automate IT by making deploying, configuring, and updating software on one machine like doing it on thousand of machines. To use Ansible we have to configure playbooks. Those playbooks are the files which contain the commands that will deployed on the machines. Test deploying grid node with Ansible.

3. Perspectives and schedules Oct-Dec Jul-SepMar-JunDec-Feb Sep-Nov May-Aug 3 5 1 2 4 6 Selection of the grid team and administration assistance to facilitate their travel to Europe. Work Package Three Progress 2013 2014 Knoweldge transfer to the WP3 team in France and Italy. Selection and training of grid management team. Pre- Production test of tier 3 gride node. Production of tier 3 gride node. Continue formations at LLR. Pre- Production test of tier 2 gride node. Production of tier 2 gride node.

4. Current status Currently Grid node is up and working with some issues The grid is consisting from the following 1.One machine acts as a BDII_SITE. 2.One machine acts as a UI. 3.One machine acts as a CE. 4.One machine acts as a WN. 5.One machine acts as a DPM_MYSQL. 6.One machine acts as a DPM_DISK. 7.One machine acts as a SQUID. All the machines are installed on Physical machines.

5. Current status All the machines have the following specs: CPUTwo Quad core processor, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5345 @ 2.33GHz x86_64 Arch, with 4 M L2 cash HD320 Gb Ram16 G Display(AMD/ATI) ES1000 Also we have two virtual machines acting as TOP-BDII and UI. The site is now registered on GOCDB under this link: https://goc.egi.eu/portal/index.php?Page_Type=Site&id=961 It is important to mention that all the services registered on GOCDB are monitored with AfricaArabia ROC in South Africa. We have one last issue with the servers certificates.