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10th Quattor Workshop

11–13 Oct 2010
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Europe/London timezone

Contribution List

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15. Welcome & Comments on Quattor & Tier1
11/10/2010, 10:00
16. Introduction & Practical information
11/10/2010, 10:15
3. Quattor Usage Report
Michel Jouvin (LAL / IN2P3)
11/10/2010, 10:30
Report on the current Quattor usage, based on the survey done in September.
12. Proposed changes to ncm-filesystems (and a future ncm-stab)
Luke Fernando Muñoz Mejías (CERN)
11/10/2010, 11:00
A few months ago, Ian requested some things that make perfect sense about ncm-filesystems. I more or less have the time to implement it now, so here it goes: 1) "preserve" and "format" don't make sense anymore. They do for the installer, but not on a live system. So, the component should just ignore them. It should remove a FS if it disappears from the profile, and create it if it...
2. SCDB update
Michel Jouvin (LAL / IN2P3)
11/10/2010, 11:20
Usual status report about last SCDB developments and plans
4. Pan Compiler Status
Cal Loomis (CNRS/LAL)
11/10/2010, 11:40
The presentation provides the current status of the pan language compiler and a roadmap for upcoming features.
14. Security by default: The importance of lean systems
11/10/2010, 13:30
There are a few very well-known security prinicples in information security such as security by default, security in depth. However, in reality we have seen that people very often overlook some simple but important details, which might eventually lead to a system being compromised. This presentation will give a few examples and observations that we have seen in our day to day operation...
13. Cruft Removal
Mr James ADAMS (STFC RAL Tier1)
11/10/2010, 14:00
A brief summary of our experience trying to reducing the payload size of QWG templated machines and proposals for enhancements and changes to template layout in order to improve package control.
17. QWG Errata Framework
11/10/2010, 14:30
19. GRIF Approach to Errata Deployment
Guillaume Philippon (LAL / IN2P3)
11/10/2010, 15:30
Current experience at GRIF with errata deployment and future plans.
5. Quattor Software Process
Cal Loomis (CNRS/LAL)
11/10/2010, 15:50
Building the components of the Quattor toolkit, packaging those components, and testing them are all essential for maintaining Quattor as a high-quality fabric management system. The current tools and processes are not effective. This presentation provides the plan for moving to a new set of build tools and services to better support the Quattor software development and release process.
1. QWG templates Status
Michel Jouvin (LAL / IN2P3)
12/10/2010, 09:30
Usual status report about QWG templates
7. Migration to QWG templates
Ronald Starink (Nikhef)
12/10/2010, 10:00
A discussion of effort needed to migrate (part of) Nikhef's template hierarchy to QWG-based templates.
11. Deploying SINDES at RAL Tier 1
Mr James ADAMS (STFC RAL Tier 1)
12/10/2010, 11:00
RAL Tier1 is on the point of deploying SINDES in production on all Quattor managed system. This talk will present some of the issues, challenges and expected benefits.
20. QWG Discussion
12/10/2010, 11:20
0. BEgrid Quattor installation current state and help required from community
David Durvaux (BELNET), Shkelzen Rugovac (IIHE (ULB/VUB))
12/10/2010, 13:30
BEgrid (Belgian GRID) is using Quattor in a non standard way. A central server handle configurations for all the sites. Each site is running a "Quattor client" retrieving and compiling the configurations. There is no push to site. The central machine is becoming old and the hardware start failing. A fresh installation is required and it's the opportunity to refresh everything a use...
8. Future changes in QWG Nagios templates
Ronald Starink (Nikhef)
12/10/2010, 14:15
Nikhef's templates for configuring Nagios contain some enhancements compared to the standard QWG templates. During this presentation the differences will be discussed. Based on that, the future development of the Nagios templates can be discussed.
21. Discussion
12/10/2010, 14:35
22. Aquilon Status
Nick Williams (Morgan Stanley)
12/10/2010, 15:05
6. Quattor and Virtualization
Cal Loomis (CNRS/LAL)
12/10/2010, 16:00
Quattor will play an important part in the StratusLab project--demonstrating compatibility with fabric management tools and acting itself as a tool for controlled building of machine images. The presentation provides an overview of the current state of virtualization support with Quattor and the StratusLab plans for Quattor integration/interaction.
10. Building awareness and knowledge of Quattor
David William O'Callaghan (Unknown)
12/10/2010, 16:30
In this session participants will be invited to discuss ways to spread the word about Quattor. This will include Quattor's web presence and other "dissemination" activities.
23. Next Meeting
12/10/2010, 16:50
18. Discussion
9. Using Git with Quattor SCDB
David William O'Callaghan (Unknown)
This talk will discuss experiences with using Git in place of Subversion with Quattor SCDB.
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