From: Nuno Ferreira
Date: November 28, 2013 7:40:36 PM GMT+03:00
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: Robot certificate owner - user numbers

Dear grid robot owners,

In the past, EGI contacted the owners of robots operating in the EGI infrastructure to better understand the number of users you are serving, more specifically the number of users not possessing a personal X509 making use of robot proxies. This task was recorded in a dedicated wiki page. 

This activity was put in standby mode because there's currently no automatic way to retrieve such statistics, only requesting the robots operators to supply EGI with figures. Since last year, the number of robots more than duplicated and the number of VO's being served by robots also increased. EGI assumes thus an increase on the number of users who access EGI resources via your robots. 

Tiziana Ferrari, in her new role as EGI_InSPIRE director / EGI technical director, wants to have a clear picture about the EGI user community being supported by grid robots, and thus I'm hereby requesting you all to provide us the current total number of users that have access to your robot. These numbers will start to be recorded in EGI_InSPIRE Quarterly reports.

Robots are mostly used by operations teams, pilot jobs and gateway/portals. We are more interested at this point in time to get the numbers for portal/gateway operators, because:
	• Operational tasks like monitoring, usually have a couple of users using the robot
	• Pilot jobs are difficult to associate to whom is using the job and thus to assess how many users are taking profit of it
	• Gateways/portals are responsible to bring new users (with or without X509) to consume e-infrastructure resources
I would like to have these numbers by the end of next Monday, 2nd Dec. 2013. 
I greatly appreciate your collaboration in this topic. Feel free to ping back for any doubt.

Best regards,
N.

P.S. 
(I) BTW, a technical solution is currently being assessed on how robot accounting could be improved, such that per user robot proxies could be properly accounted by APEL.

(II) I know that some of you are keen to see the trend of robots in operation in the e-infrastructure. Here's a snapshot:

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Nuno L. Ferreira   |  User Community Support Officer
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