HEPiX Fall 2014 Workshop

Session

Basic IT Services

16 Oct 2014, 13:30

Nebraska Union - Regency Suite (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)

32. Developing Nagios code to suspend checks during planned outages

Ray Spence (u)

16/10/2014, 13:30

Basic IT Services

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/NERSC Division Developing Nagios code to suspend checks during planned outages. Raymond E. Spence NERSC currently supports more than 13,000 computation nodes spread over six supercomputing or clustered systems. These systems access cumulatively more than 13.5PB of disk space via thousands of network interfaces. This environment enables scientists...

25. Configuration Services at CERN: update

Ben Jones (CERN)

16/10/2014, 13:50

Basic IT Services

A status of the Puppet-based Configuration Service at CERN will presented giving a general update and discussing our current plans for the next 6 months. The presentation will also highlight the work being done to secure the Puppet infrastructure making it appropriate for use by a large number of administratively distinct user-groups.

23. CFEngine Application at AGLT2

Mr Ben Meekhof (University of Michigan)

16/10/2014, 14:15

Basic IT Services

CFEngine is a highly flexible configuration management framework. It also has a very high learning curve which can sometimes make decisions about how to deploy and use it difficult. At AGLT2 we manage a variety of different systems with CFEngine. We also have an effective version-controlled workflow for developing, testing, and deploying changes to our configuration. The talk will...

21. Puppet at USCMS-T1 and FermiLab - Year 2

Timothy Michael Skirvin (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

16/10/2014, 14:40

Basic IT Services

USCMS-T1's work to globally deploy Puppet as our configuration management tool is well into the "long tail" phase, and has changed in fairly significant ways since its inception. This talk will discuss what has worked, how the Puppet tool itself has changed over the project, and our first thoughts as to what we expect to be doing in the next year (hint: starting again is rather likely!).

3. DataBase on Demand : insight how to build your on DBaaS

Ruben Domingo Gaspar Aparicio (CERN)

16/10/2014, 15:05

Basic IT Services

Inspired on different database as a service, DBaas, providers, the database group at CERN has developed a platform to allow CERN user community to run a database instance with database administrator privileges providing a full toolkit that allows the instance owner to perform backup/ point in time recoveries, monitoring specific database metrics, start/stop of the instance and...

51. Configuration Management, Change Management, and Culture Management

James Pryor (B)

16/10/2014, 16:20

Basic IT Services

In 2010, the RACF at BNL began investigating Agile/DevOps practices and methodologies to be able to do more in less time or effort. We choose Puppet in 2010 and by Spring of 2011 we had converted about half our of configuration shell scripts into Puppet code on a handful of machines. Today we have scaled Puppet 3.x to support our entire facility and and host a common Puppet code base that is...

9. Ermis service for DNS Load Balancer configuration

Aris Angelogiannopoulos (Ministere des affaires etrangeres et europeennes (FR))

16/10/2014, 16:45

Basic IT Services

This presentation describes the implementation and use cases of the Ermis Service. Ermis is a RESTful service to manage the configuration of DNS load balancers. It enables direct creation and deletion of DNS delegated zones using a SOAP interface provided by the Network group thus simplifying the procedure needed for supporting new services. It is written in Python as a Django Application....