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EGI InSPIRE held its first ROD teams workshop

The availability and reliability of sites in the grid infrastructure is monitored and safeguarded by ROD (Regional Operator on Duty) teams in different countries. This way a production quality grid infrastructure can be delivered to the EGI's user communities. The first EGI InSPIRE ROD teams workshop was organised on June 1st and 2nd. The meeting gathered up 51 people from 18 countries.

As the European Grid infrastructure has been developed and formulated, the ways to monitor and safeguard the reliability of sites has shaped as well. In the EGEE era, this activity was centralised as 11 sites performed this duty for the whole infrastructure in weekly shifts. In the course of the EGEE-III project this activity moved towards decentralisation where the 11 sites monitored only sites in their own region. Now, in EGI InSPIRE, process is even more decentralised as regions split into countries, each having its own ROD team. The responsibility is now transferred to new organisations with new people involved.

A considerable number of the people attending the workshop come from countries not involved in operations in the EGEE project and were new to the ROD work. There was two tutorial sessions intended especially for those new people to discuss the operational procedures and operational tools used by the ROD teams. Other sessions in the workshop included an overview from the COO of EGI, presentations on the Operations model and how NGIs are embracing this new structure, and presentations and discussions of tools used to monitor the resources. There was also a presentation on a new gLite middleware component called Argus which addresses consistent authorization decisions for distributed services.