Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 26 June 2001 WG-H / Support status Packaging / RPM’s UK + EU DG CA’s central grid-users file grid “ping” job

Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 26 June 2001 Packaging: Globus New version of globus RPM released yesterday Includes hooks for other components (PBS, CA etc) gsi-wuftpd rebuilt with it, to use gridmapdir dynamic accounts if available Last release before Globus 2?

Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 26 June 2001 Packaging: GSI openssh Packaged by QMW in RPM format Uses accomanying openssl RPM Supports ssh2 protocol Underlying openssh is actively supported, so better if/when security patches are needed. Uses gridmapdir patch, so again dynamic accounts supported.

Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 26 June 2001 Packaging: globus-pbs A small RPM to configure jobmanager-pbs in the Globus gatekeeper Relies on patches in main Globus RPM to specify PBS command locations Only necessary to install globus RPM, openpbs RPM and globus-pbs RPM to get jobmanager-pbs working

Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 26 June 2001 CA RPM’s Globus RPM include make-ca-signing- policy script This rebuilds CA configuration from CA- specific fragments gridppca RPM - trust UK HEP CA certs eudgca RPM - trust EU DataGrid CA certs gridppca-request - request UK user certs

Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 26 June 2001 Central grid-users Prototype system working at Manchester on Babar PC farm Fetch grid-users file from Each line = address : “cert DN” Script makes grid-mapfile from this (using. for username to get a dynamic account) Could easily be used for UK prototype grid

Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 26 June New website URL (again!) All existing links redirected automatically Need a better “propaganda” front page (Working on SSL based authentification, since can easily convert UK HEP CA certs and import them into IE / Netscape. This will allow “on the page” editing, and be more Windows-friendly.)

Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 26 June 2001 Grid “ping” job Gavin McCance has a prototype of this working to some sites Runs simple job and fetches basic results from the remote sites including a timestamp Results are fed into WP3 prototype relational database Automatic web page of results will be available soon

Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 26 June 2001 Future Support work Need to formalise software testing: ie need people to sign up and feed back experiences of what works and what doesn’t Need more documentation CVS repository. Document store. WG Mailing lists. Better web write access. Use UK HEP CA host certs GridPP-wide grid-users file? (with groups)

Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 26 June 2001 Testbed1 Integration WG Currently deciding process rather than integration itself First meeting last Thursday Will have another meeting this Friday then begin integration work

Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 26 June 2001 Major results of first meeting: 1 It was agreed that each WP should deliver the following for PM9 A Description of all package sub modules as detailed as possible A list of dependencies on Globus components A list of dependency on external packages A Test suite One or more contact people. They should be part of the integration team.

Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 26 June 2001 Major results of first meeting: 2 People in Integration Team are: WPs, Applications, WP6 and WP12 representatives. “Integration and Validation teams should work very closely.” “The Validation team should be probably have people from the Integration team plus some people from Applications running tests.”

Andrew McNab - Manchester HEP - 26 June 2001 Major results of first meeting: 3 CVS access by the end of July. Start packaging in August. By the end of September roll out RPMs to be deployed by the Validation Team. Beta "Testbed" with a beta release probably ready by the end of October.