Speaker
Dr
Stefano Dal Pra
(INFN)
Description
Keeping track of the layout of the informatic resources in a
big datacenter is a complex task.
DOCET is a database-based webtool designed and implemented at INFN. It
aims at providing a uniform interface to manage and retrieve needed
information about one or more datacentre, such as available hardware,
software and their status.
Having a suitable application is however useless until most of the
information about the centre are not inserted in the DOCET's
database. Manually inserting all the information from scratch is an
unfeasible task.
After describing DOCET's high level architecture, its main features
and current development track, we present and discuss the work done to
populate the DOCET database for the INFN-T1 site by retrieving information from a
heterogenous variety of authoritative sources, such as DNS, DHCP,
Quattor host profiles, etc. We then describe the work being done to
integrate DOCET with some common management operation, such as adding
a newly installed host to DHCP and DNS, or creating a suitable Quattor
profile template for it.
Author
Dr
Stefano Dal Pra
(INFN)
Co-author
Mr
Alberto Crescente
(INFN)
