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Contents 1 Attendees 1.1 Confirmed 1.2 Apologies 2 Agenda 2.1 Thursday, January 24th 2008 2.2 Friday, January 25th 2008 2.3 Parallel Sessions 2.3.1 Session 1: Authentication for visualisation tools 2.3.2 Session 2: Flow Monitoring 2.3.3 Session 3: Visualisation 2.3.4 Session 4: Protocol documentation 2.3.5 Session 5: perfSONAR 4.0 (and perfSONAR 3.1) 2.3.6 Session 6: Problem management process and document - overview and feedback 2.3.7 Session 7: Release 3.0 updates and discussion 2.3.8 Session 8: Web-Services Performances - progress meeting 2.3.9 Session 9: MDM - Pilot - NOC and PERT Training Definition 2.3.10 Session 10: Data analyses and alarm tools 2.3.11 (Testing process review and future planning) SESSION CANCELED 2.3.12 Template 2.4 Relevant Sessions for JRA1 Participants during overall GN2 Workshop

Attendees

Confirmed

1. Nicolas Simar (Thursday afternoon only)
2. Andreas Hanemann
3. Patricia Marcu
4. David Schmitz
5. Chris Welti (Wednesday morning till Friday noon)
6. Hans Trompert
7. Stijn Melis (Thursday morning till Friday noon)
8. Stijn Verstichel (Thursday morning till Friday noon)
9. Jochen Reinwand
10. Verena Venus
11. Thomas Holleczeck
12. Loukik Kudarimoti (Thursday afternoon till Friday noon)
13. Szymon Trocha (Thursday afternoon till Friday noon)
14. Maciej Glowiak (Thursday only)
15. Nina Jeliazkova
16. Luis Marta
17. Candido Rodriguez
18. Alessandro Inzerilli
19. Giovanni Cesaroni
20. Mario Reale
21. Branko Radojevic
22. Sasa Cavara
23. Prodromos Gerakios (Wednesday morning till Friday noon)

Apologies

1. Stephan Kraft
2. Frederic Loui

Agenda

Thursday, January 24th 2008

• 9:00 - 9:10 - Welcome - Andreas
• 9:10 - 10:30 - Parallel Session
  • Session 1: Authentication implementation for visualisation tools
  • Session 2: Flow Monitoring

Presentation

• 10:30 - 11:00 - Coffee Break
• 11:00 - 12:30 - Parallel Session
  • Session 3: Visualisation
    • Looking Glass: GARR proposals for UI
  • Session 4: Protocol documentation
• 12:30 - 13:00 - Reports on parallel sessions
• 13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch Break
• 14:00 - 14:15 - Activity Status Update - Nicolas Simar
• 14:15 - 15:30 - Session 5: perfSONAR 4.0 discussion (first part, plenary)
• 15:30 - 16:00 - Coffee Break
• 16:00 - 16:30 - Session 5: perfSONAR 4.0 discussion (second part, plenary)
• 16:30 - 17:30 - Session 6: Problem management process and document (plenary)
• 17:30 - Closing

Friday, January 25th 2008

• 9:00 - 10:30 Parallel Session
  • Session 7: Release 3.0 and updates
  • Session 8: Web-service performance progress (SESSION CANCELLED, too few participants)
• 10:30 - 11:00 - Coffee Break
• 11:00 - 12:30 Parallel Session
  • Session 9: NOC and PERT Training definition
  • Session 10: Data analyses and alarm tools
• 12:30 - 13:00 - Reports on parallel sessions
• 13:00 - Closing

Parallel Sessions

Session 1: Authentication for visualisation tools

• Session helper: Candido; WI: 6, session length: 1h00
• Description: Current issues related to the addition of AA functionalities to visualisation tools, in particular about the recent modifications of the authN protocols: timestamps and new protocol for the WE profile.
• Attendance:
  • Expected: Candido, visualisation developers (Patricia, David, Nina, Danijel, Stijn)
  • Confirmed: Candido, Stijn

Session 2: Flow Monitoring

• Session helper: Hans; WI: 3, session length: 1h30
• Description: Flow monitoring related discussions
  • No discussion items yet. If you have anything to discuss, please update here.
• Attendance:
  • Expected: Hans, Sasa, Alessandro, Jon Kare, Nicolas, all other flow monitoring enthousiasts
  • Confirmed: Hans, Sasa, Prodromos

Session 3: Visualisation

• Session helper: Andreas; WI: 6, session length: 1h30
• Description:
  • This session is about common topics for the visualisation tools, in particular about the implementation of AA, implementation of utilisation categories.
  • Proposal by Mario to improve the Looking Glass interface
• Attendance:
  • Expected: Andreas, David, Patricia, Nina, Danijel, Stijn, Mario
  • Confirmed:

Session 4: Protocol documentation

• Session helper: Verena; WI: 5, session length: 1h30
• Description: Work on the protocol documentation document from Nicolas
  • Nicolas proposal approval or modification.
  • Identify the user documents that are needed: Work in small groups to sort the material already there. The aim is, to get an overview of already existing documentation and specification.
  • Provide a rough timeline for getting the documentation ready.
• Attendance:
  • Expected: Developers, testers
  • Confirmed: Verena, Prodromos

• Minutes:

Work in groups to identify existing documentation/specification: Four groups reviewed the following parts: LS-interaction, EchoRequest, Authentication and result codes. One further group reviewed LS documentation. The outcome will be presented on the mailing-list and put into the document from Nicolas. Missing parts should be added by the developpers. Louis and Prodromos volunteered to work on existing documents after release. Input from a Java-Base delevoper is needed. Further discussion to be done in the April developers meeting.

Session 5: perfSONAR 4.0 (and perfSONAR 3.1)

• Session helper: NS; WI: 3, session length: 1h30
• Description: This session aims at defining what will be in perfSONAR 4.0. What enhancements, what new products? Several proposal will be presented and feedback collected. (feel free to send proposal). 15 min per proposal. The enhancements should also be performed with respect to MDM development.
  • Web-service self diagnosis (NJ) : extention of the perfsonar ping to ask the web-service to run some internal analyses. Are all the components working fine.
  • Testing the web-service installation (LK): description of how the installation of the different components of a service can be tested by users after their installation and how (servlet based).
  • performance enhancements (RL): if progress significants.
  • Schema extension (ST)
  • Implementation of utilisation categories (requirement of DFN for data access, AH)
  • Extensions for finding closest MP (Andreas)
  • Protocol documentation for 4.0 (NS)
• Attendance:
  • Expected: Release Management, Work Item Leaders, Main Developers
  • Confirmed: Szymon

Session 6: Problem management process and document - overview and feedback

• Session helper: Loukik; WI: 15, session length: 1h00
• Description:
  • Discussion about the problem management as proposed so far
  • Bug handling inefficiencies (bug 278, Verena)
• Attendance:
  • Expected: Work item leaders, all developers (requires remote participation)
  • Confirmed:

Session 7: Release 3.0 updates and discussion

• Session helper: Loukik; WI: 15, session length: 1h30
• Description: Open issues with respect to the perfSONAR 3.0 release
• Attendance:
  • Expected: Release Management (Loukik, Luis, Michalis), developers involved in the release
  • Confirmed:

Session 8: Web-Services Performances - progress meeting

• Session helper: Szymon; WI: 5, session length: 1h30
• Description: The objective of this session is to evaluate the progress made and the next steps interm of benchmarking tests and in term of performance improvements. NS/MM/RL/ST to identify need/agenda
  • An extention to the perfsonar ping will be presented (as valuable tool to check the performance). The attendance will have to indicate if and when those changes should be integrated into the developments.
• Attendance:
  • Expected: Illias, Szymon, Maciej, visualisation
  • Confirmed: Szymon, Prodromos

Session 9: MDM - Pilot - NOC and PERT Training Definition

• Session helper: Alessandro; WI: 15, session length: 1h (must be on Friday morning)
• Description: Alessandro will provide a draft squeleton of the NOC training that will be provided. The session will be used to brainstorm and identify what needs to be covered for the NOC/PERT training (so that they can learn how to use ther perfSONAR tools, infrastructure and support). The training structure should be re-usable accross multiple NRENs.
• Attendance:
  • Expected: Alessandro, Gabor, Chris, Luis, Szymon.
  • Confirmed: Chris, Szymon

Session 10: Data analyses and alarm tools

• Session helper: Jochen; WI: 3/6, session length: 1h30
• Description: The sessions deals with the handling of the data measured by perfSONAR. One issue is which data is considered as anomaly. This is obvious for some metrics (e.g. availability), while it is not for other metrics (e.g. jitter). Based on the different tools that are already existing it should be discussed how alarms should be raised and how they should be tracked. Such a functionality can be attached to the existing visualisation tools, in particular the HADES and BWCTL visualisation. The outcome of the session should a decision for the technical solution. Main issues:
  • Data analyses: Presentation from a student (Thomas) working on his diploma thesis about analysing Hades data.
  • Alert system: What components are needed? What do we already have (Hades alert system prototype)? What needs to be done?
  • The users' expectations: Possible perfSONAR Applications (by Toby Rodwell), see http://wiki.geant2.net/bin/view/SA3/Sa3PerfmonMain#PerfSonarApps
• Attendance:
  • Expected: Jochen, Verena, Andreas, David, Patricia, Nina, Danijel, Stijn
  • Confirmed: Jochen, Verena, Thomas
• Minutes

(Testing process review and future planning) SESSION CANCELED

• Session helper: ; WI: 15, session length: 1h00
• Description:
• Attendance:
  • Expected: Release management, testers, some developers
  • Confirmed:

Template

• Session helper: xxx; WI: xxx, session length: xxx
• Description:
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Relevant Sessions for JRA1 Participants during overall GN2 Workshop

The GEANT2 workshop consist of several meetings that are relevant to JRA1. You can find below the list of meetings and the people who will attend them.

1. Tuesday 09:00 - 10:30 - AA/eduGAIN (CR, NS, PM, DS, SM)
2. Tuesday 13:00 - 17:30 - Cross activity cNIS v1 meeting (DS/PM, NS, JK, MR/GI)
3. Wednesday 09:00 - 13:00 - Plenary (JRA1 demo - NS) ; attendance (at least ST, AH, LK)
4. Wednesday 14:00 - 15:30 - JRA1-PERT progress, demo (AH, AI, GC, NS, CW)
5. Wednesday 16:00 - 17:30 - JRA1-JRA2 (netflow progress, set-up a document template to submit to TF-CSIRT, netflow deployment) (NS, HT, AI, JKH, SC) - Christophe's presentation on COMBO card
6. Thursday 09:00 - 13:00 - Cross activities (monitoring, ticket, statistics, users, training) (NS, LK, JR, ST)
7. Thursday 09:00 - 18:00 - JRA1 meeting (AH to organise the session schedule and be the maitre d' for the duration of the JRA1 meeting)
8. Friday 09:00 - 13:00 - TC Meeting (NS)
9. Friday 09:00 - 13:00 - JRA1 meeting