/* * ############################################################## * ## ## * ## CIC OPERATIONS PORTAL ## * ## Communication Interface for Central Operations ## * ## ## * ############################################################## * * developped at IN2P3-CNRS Computing Centre, Lyon, France * http://cc.in2p3.fr * * cic-information@in2p3.fr * * -------------------------------------------------------------- * File & version: $Id: CICPortal_release_note_V-4.9.txt,v 1.1 2008/03/05 10:20:27 lorpheli Exp $ * Author : Cyril L'orphelin * * Description: * This is the release note of CIC Operations Portal v-4.9 * * * * -------------------------------------------------------------- */ ################################### Overview ################################### The CIC Operations Portal is online at URL http://cic.gridops.org This portal has been created as a part of the SA1 activity. It is dedicated to ensure: # to be a management and operations tool # to be an entry point for all Egee actors for their operational needs # to manage the available informations about EGEE VOs and related VOs # to monitor and ensure grid day-to-day operations on grid resources and services Each actor of Egee will then be able to enter or have access to informations from an operational point of view according to its role into Egee - what we define as an actor's view: # VO views : actions depending upon VO Managers and VO administrator # VO mb views : actions depending upon VO members responsabilities # RC views : actions depending upon RC responsabilities # and so on with COD, ROC and OAG Home section of the portal is public. Other sections are secured using certificates and SSL authentication. ################################### Main changes from v-4.8 ################################### Main changes are presented in 6 groups: 0- Background - technical changes 1- New features 2- Improvements of existing features 3- Bug fixes 4- Failover related work 5- integration and parallel work additionnaly, the exhaustive development list is published at the end of this document, giving for each development the following information: - purpose of the development - entity or person requesting this development - end of development date 0- Background - technical changes ################################### - GOC DB Failover : due to a high dependency to GOC DB we have setup a replica of data from GOC DB. We refresh and store dataset depending the criticity of data. The dataset is use only if GOC DB is down . - CIC portal code and repository licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. README file containing License terms added to CIC portal root directory, both in current physical location and in CVS. 1- New features ################################### - Description page about COD activity and COD working groups added to the "COD procedures" section of the portal. This page contains information and links about different activities handled within the scope of COD - Display of the number of users per VO ( if VOMS server is available and reachable ) http://cic.gridops.org/index.php?section=home&page=volist 2- Improvements of existing features ################################### ROC / RC Reports ---------------- - the global design has been reviewed and improved . - the concurrent access has been changed . VO ID CARDs ------------ - Changes in certificate info display: when a cert is manually uploaded, it now appears along with the automatically retrieved one. This has been done to facilitiate certificate replacement when expiration date is reached, allowing site admins to configure their site with the new one while still having info about the current one COD DASHBOARD ------------- - 1st Line Support Dashboard: As agreed during last COD meeting, 1st line supporters will be allowed to create tickets for alarms of their region when they are younger than 24h. Ticket creation functionality has accordingly been adapted on the regional dashboard. (task 3419) - Notepad per site is now also available in site details page (accessed through "other tools" section, selecting a site). It was previously only accessible through alarm details pages. 3- Bug fixes ################################### - Bug fix: COD dashboard broken link (GGUS ticket #33308). When browsing details of a given alarm, links to "already open tickets for that site" were broken. # Task 2979 - Bug fix: insertion of a NA4 contact when registering a new VO was failing because of a bug in syntax checking. # Task 3059 - Bug fix: UKI regional dashboard was not displaying ggus tickets, because of a naming problem (UKI region is labeled differently in GOCDB and SAM) -> Task 3285 4- Failover related work ################################### GOC DB Failover : please see section 0 - Background and technical changes 5- integration and parallel work ################################### N/A ################################### Development details since last release ################################### ------- 02/2008 ech------- + Changes in certificate info display: when a cert is manually uploaded, it now appears along with the automatically retrieved one. This has been done to facilitiate certificate replacement when expiration date is reached, allowing site admins to configure their site with the new one while still having info about the current one - Asked by VO managers + First Line support dashboard : Authorize ticket creation - Asked by ROC CE + Correction of links in alarms details - Asked by Alessandro Cavalli / Steve Traylen + GOC DB replica in CIC DB - Asked by COD + COD activities and working group page - Asked by Helene Cordier + Evaluate and display the number of users per VO - Asked by Bob Jones + Correction in the insertion of NA4 contact - VO Managers ------- 03/2008 ------- + Notepad accessible from Site Details view - Asked by COD ################################### About previous releases ################################### Please browse older release notes for information about previous releases: http://cic.gridops.org/common/all/releaseNotes/CICPortal_release_note_V-4.8.txt http://cic.gridops.org/common/all/releaseNotes/CICPortal_release_note_V-4.7.txt http://cic.gridops.org/common/all/releaseNotes/CICPortal_release_note_V-4.6.txt http://cic.gridops.org/common/all/releaseNotes/CICPortal_release_note_V-4.5.txt http://cic.gridops.org/common/all/releaseNotes/CICPortal_release_note_V-4.4.txt http://cic.gridops.org/common/all/releaseNotes/CICPortal_release_note_V-4.3.txt http://cic.gridops.org/common/all/releaseNotes/CICPortal_release_note_V-4.2.txt http://cic.gridops.org/common/all/releaseNotes/CICPortal_release_note_V-4.0.txt http://cic.gridops.org/common/all/releaseNotes/CICPortal_release_note_V-3.2.txt http://cic.gridops.org/common/all/releaseNotes/CICPortal_release_note_V-3.1.txt http://cic.gridops.org/common/all/releaseNotes/CICPortal_release_note_V-3.0.txt http://cic.gridops.org/common/all/releaseNotes/CICPortal_release_note_V-2.5.txt http://cic.gridops.org/common/all/releaseNotes/CICPortal_release_note_V-2.4.txt http://cic.gridops.org/common/all/releaseNotes/CICPortal_release_note_V-2.3.txt http://cic.gridops.org/common/all/releaseNotes/CICPortal_release_note_V-2.2.txt http://cic.gridops.org/common/all/releaseNotes/CICPortal_release_note_V-2.0.txt http://cic.gridops.org/common/all/releaseNotes/CICPortal_release_note_V-1.3.txt http://cic.gridops.org/common/all/releaseNotes/CICPortal_release_note_V-1.0.txt http://cic.gridops.org/common/all/releaseNotes/CICPortal_release_note_V-0.5.txt http://cic.gridops.org/common/all/releaseNotes/CICPortal_release_note_V-0.4.txt ##### EOF #####