Hi All,
I have an action from this week dteam meeting to find out more about Pakiti.
I raised some questions to OSCT, developers and also to CERN (Romain) on the
development of pakiti and the future (EGI/NGI) of the central Pakit server
(maintained by CERN at the moment). Below is the answer from Romain:
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- Pakiti is and will remain a generic monitoring tool (= not for grids only)
- CERN is committed to use and support Pakiti in the longer term (although
with the limited, unfunded resources available)
- Pakiti will remain on SourceForge and development will continue (in the
worst case scenario, from student and volunteer contributions only)
- CERN will still provide a central Pakiti service for WLCG sites, as well
as for EGI (if EGI wishes to use it)
- The grid management is aware of the benefits provided by Pakiti and
acknowledge our strategy and the efforts made by the OSCT in developing it
and pushing it forward
The priority for me now is to see a stable release ASAP on SourceForge. We
still have number of people running the (badly broken) beta from April 2008,
and we need to give them something better.
My personal wish-list for the next stage would be:
- A Pakiti 3.x beta release in Python (or a major PHP rewrite)
- Support for Debian architecture
- Support for hierarchical Pakitis (older versions used to do it very
nicely! should not be too much work to re-integrate)
- A much more fine grained ACL (GRNET had something a few years ago?)
(perhaps hierarchical Pakitis would solve this)
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In summary (combination of above answer and other input from OSCT),
- the development of Pakiti will continue even after EGEE III
- A new release (written in Python) will be ready soon
- A central Pakiti server will be still available at CERN, NGIs can use it
if they want to
- It is possible to setup a regional Pakiti server (Central Europe has one
for example)
- It is also possible to accumulate regional Pakiti results to a central
Pakiti server when the hierarchical Pakitis feature is available.
One clarification, I was wrongly saying that only old version Pakiti can be
used by sites to monitor systems other than WNs. The fact is the Pakiti
client code can run as either cron job (to monitor any of your system, not
just WNs) or a grid job (can only monitor WNs, which OSCT is doing), the
server side (Apache + Pakiti server) is the same regardless of client code.
One advantage of new Pakiti client is it can be run as non-root.
Pakiti and its document can be found at: http://pakiti.sourceforge.net/
Hope it is helpful.
Cheers,
Mingchao
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