Speaker
Ms
Alessandra Forti
(University of Manchester)
Description
System Management Working Group (SMWG) of sys admins from Hepix and
grid sites has been setup to address the fabric management problems
that HEP sites might have. The group is open and its goal is
not to implement new tools but to share what is already in use at
sites according to existing best practices. Some sites are already
publicly sharing their tools and sensors and some other sites do write
very good documentation and share it. The aim is to extend this to a
general practice and in a more organised way and avoid the duplication
of effort that occurs when system administrators are solving mostly
the same problems over and over. The result has been the creation of
a WEB site (www.sysadmin.hep.ac.uk) that hosts a subversion repository
for management and monitoring tools and a wiki. It works as a file
sharing system and single entry point for documentation distributed
in other sites. The site, based on gridsite. This paper describes how the group
is working and what has been achieved so far.
Summary
Cooperative effort to collect documentation and tools from HEP sites sys admin in a
single accessible place.
Author
Ms
Alessandra Forti
(University of Manchester)
Co-author
Michel Jouvin
(LAL (IN2P3))
