ETICS workshop

23 Oct 2007, 09:00 → 24 Oct 2007, 17:00 Europe/Zurich

600 R-017 (CERN)

Elisabetta Ronchieri (INFN CNAF)

This event is divided into two part, each of them stays one day:

1. First day covers basic aspects of the ETICS system, like service description, most common usage of the command line and web clients etc.
   This session is dedicated for users that are starting or wish to start using ETICS.
2. Second day concentrates about studying advanced ETICS use-cases, and ways they can be implemented.
   This session is dedicated for advanced users, that already use and know the ETICS system.

ETICS stands for "eInfrastructure for Testing, Integration and Configuration of Software". It provides a service to help software developers, managers and users to better manage complexity and improve the quality of their software. Using Grid software and best practices, the service allows to fully automate the way a software is built and tested. In other words, ETICS provide software professionals with an "out-of-the-box" build and test system, powered with a build and test product repository.

The event will be held at CERN (Geneve, Rue de Meyrin), building 600, room R-017.
There is no charge for this event, lunch will not be included (will be paid by participants).

Important information
Computers will NOT be provided during the event. If participants wish to follow to exercises, they have to use their own laptops (wireless network will be available).
In order to follow the exercises, the following preconditions have to be meet:

1. You need a valid certificate signed by certificate authority recognized by EUGridPMA. Please consult https://ca.cern.ch/ca/ for more details.
2. It is highly recommended to register your personal certificate in the ETICS (registration procedure).
3. The certificate should be installed in a web-browser and available as well in .pem format (required for the ETICS command-line client).

Tuesday 23 October

09:30 → 09:45 Welcome, logistics and overview

09:45 → 11:15 ETICS overview

System introduction, architecture, data model, NMI execution engine, reporting and repository

slides ETICS-Overview.pdf ETICS-Overview.ppt

11:15 → 11:45 Introduction to the tutorial

Description and preparation to the tutorial that will take place after lunch break

slides ETICS-tutorial-introduction.pdf ETICS-tutorial-introduction.ppt

11:45 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:30 Tutorial: the ETICS web-client

Participants will model, build and test pre-prepared components in ETICS

paper ETICS-tutorial.doc ETICS-tutorial.pdf

15:30 → 17:00 Tutorial: the ETICS command line client

Participants will model, build and test pre-prepared components in ETICS

17:00 → 17:15 First day summary

Wednesday 24 October

09:30 → 09:45 Welcome, logistics and overview

09:45 → 12:00 Studying advanced ETICS use-cases

Advanced aspects of using ETICS system on example use-cases.
Among other, it covers:
- local editing,
- building from sources or from packages

Participants are welcome to submit their propositions.

12:00 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:30 Studying advanced ETICS use-cases

Continuation of the previous session (only if needed).

Question session.

15:30 → 15:45 Second day summary