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ARCS Operations Small Projects

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End User/Ease of Use

Project Raised By Description Owner Progress
Certificate Text David There are a number of bad sets of words in the Certificate System

* Its says its intrium still
* Bad english in notifications
David Will be slow....
DC 3/12 Most messages seem good now.
David 14/1/2008 - mostly done.
DC 21/1/08 - link to new pages when renewing, maybe recommend Grix?
Easy virtual user David   Sam 6/12/2007 - Heavily Revised, David, When a new cert is issued, the user will auto be put into the top level of VOMS. From there they will be able to put themselves into a group called "Demo". Sites will choose to support the Demo VO by creating appropriate VUs that can do very little (according to local sites rules and practices). The Website will talk a new user through the process and tell them what jobs they can run at what participating sites.
Features -
* All new users have one less step in getting going.
* A user who has a cert can, with no further outside help run a small job somewhere.
* Sites are reasonable secure in that the user has been through a certificate approval process and the site can restrict what they can do.
Will we need to apply restrictions in pbs.pm ? Constrain wall time (to less than 5 minutes?), the application run (perhaps just one per site ?).
31/3/2008 - David, now well documented on web site, all we need to a clean change over to new VOMRS server.
    Says Graham, use this in pbs.pm to limit the Demo user to 5 minutes.   
 
    if( ($ENV{'LOGNAME'} eq "griddemo") && 
           (($wall_time>5)||($wall_time==0)) ) { 
        $wall_time = 5; 
     }

Web Sites/Domains

Project Raised By Description Owner Progress
migrate myproxy, GOC Ashley Migrate myproxy etc to ARCS type names. Ashley, Andy 30/10/2007 - David - Seems we need -
* myproxy1.arcs.org.au
* myproxy2.arcs.org.au
* goc.arcs.org.au - 30/10/07 - David - Done
* myproxy.arcs.org.au is now a cname to myproxy.apac.edu.au.
*BUT* arcs.org.au will one day not exist - nothing should refer to it! DC 25/2/08
* Certificate still refer to APACGrid.
David - Only way to fix that is to declare additional namespace, do we want to do that ?
VOMS Chris Rename VOMS with an ARCS name Sam * voms.arcs.org.au - Sam working on it.
04/12/07

MDS

Project Raised By Description Owner Progress
MDS at TPAC Martin needs for oceanographic project Leigh hard until john formally replaced. 12/11/2007 Leigh will be looking into this.
10/12/2007 - MDS should be working fine(but not job submission just yet)
Auscope Info David MDS or Information Services requirements of Auscope.
see NCRISInformationServicesRequirements 		Gerson 29/10/2007 - recent additions to spec.
18/03/2008 - gave Kashif and Margaret feedback on latest changes to the APAC software map. The implementation of the NCRISInformationServicesRequirements should be done soon
MDS Score Card David It's been decided at the gateway admin meeting on 17 Mar 08 that a shame list/table be created to show which sites are publishing unusable information. You can find the table here (MdsScoreCard) Gerson 20/03/2008 - updated the MDS script that inca is runnning. it is now more sensitive with the information that sites are publishing, even SAPAC's MDS didn't pass all the tests

Systems Project - Development, documentation, upgrades

Project Raised By Description Owner Progress
Gridpulse and Expired Certs David Grid Pulse needs to be able to check for and warn about host certs that are approaching expiration. Darran sample concept script is written, sent to QUT for further testing.
26/10/2007 A number of team members have suggested code but so far no one has tried it put it into the gridpulse script, DRB.
Modified script with ability to check host cert and other certs (eg containercert) sent to David. Need other sites to test - DPC.
Looking at creating a more relevant set of services to check for rather than just the services returned from chkconfig. New rpm should be ready for testing this week.
07/04/08 New rpm in dev repo. Currently being tested.
RPM Templates/Guidelines Daniel Produce a simple SPEC file template with instructions and Guidelines to be used by all RPMS Daniel and others 8/11/07 Meeting with Gerson, Ashley, Russell, Steve and Darran
26/11/07 Template and docs exist - need review
21/1/08 Daniel reviewing for updates to Gbuild, MDS, Grid-pulse
25/1/08 Meeting with Russell, Steve, Florian, Darran, Ashley and Daniel
Documentation Review Daniel Review twiki documentation, search all topics and restructure if necessary by keyword:
1. mds/glue/mip, 2. gateways/xen, 3. myproxy/cert, 4. network/firewall, 5. testing/inca
Use twiki form to category and help keep track of from now on.
Need a brief overview of how it all works.
This task needs a topic of its own to track what has to be done. 		Daniel 29/10/2007 in progress, need to fix other repo issues first. Meeting 8/11/07: Daniel, Gerson, Ashley, Russell, Steve, Darran.
21/1/08 Daniel reviewing Trac front-page and instructions for ng2. Outstanding tickets for ngportal still.
Package nggums Daniel Cox Package nggums and configure auth tool to run on 443 and update auth tool to the newer ngportal version, config ngportal/auth to redirect to nggums/auth. Need gums and uath tool on different port, 8443 Sam, Daniel, Darren break apart.
Have changed test install at iVEC - authtool on 443 gums on 8443. Need to tidy up conf file DPC.
Test CentOS 5 and VDT 1.8 David Not high priority, VDT 1.8.x supports RHEL 5 now. Daniel In use at SAPAC (test), VPAC(test) and iVEC (test). iVEC have some issues. 14/1/08 SAPAC waiting on better access to servers before upgrading (hopefully very soon).
21/1/08 Daniel - need to discuss in detail use of LV/filesystem. Who is actually using CentOS5? ? VPAC using CentOS5? since Nov07. UQ in production with pending python 2.4 issues.
Improve pbs-telltail Jason Make sure all PBS data is reliably transferred to gateway machines Jason Discussed 10/12/07. Particularly an issue if gateway is off-line for a while. Will Globus still catch up properly even if logs are correct?

Experiment/Research

Project Raised By Description Owner Progress
GRAM and GridShib? Markus Investigate GRAM and GridShib? /other nobody Discussed 7/1/08

Data

Project Raised By Description Owner Progress
Uniform GridFTP naming scheme Joseph, Steve To present ARCS end-users with a consistent namespace for data services i.e. GridFTP servers initially, we need to implement an ARCS wide naming scheme   14/1/2008 - Joseph has created a page on the Trac site -- http://projects.gridaus.org.au/trac/systems/wiki/DataServices/GridFTPService
Sites should use gridftp-CLUSTER.DOMAIN
ngdata update to use VDT 1.8.1 Joseph The build script for ngdata needs to be updated
to use VDT 1.8.1
  14/1/2008 - Joseph has created a page on the Trac site -- http://projects.gridaus.org.au/trac/systems/wiki/HowTo/InstallNgData
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