On 16/01/13 15:39, Daniela Bauer wrote:
> I'm so looking forward to all these tickets about machines I can't do
> anything about.
>
If a machine can have a site, and a "NGI_UK" service group (AIUI, that's
what Ewan is proposing), then presumably the ticket goes to the site -
which can do something about it.
Chris
> Cheers,
>
> Daniela
>
>
>
> On 16 January 2013 15:35, Ewan MacMahon <[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB-
> <mailto:TB->
> > [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>] On Behalf
> Of Jeremy Coles
> >
> > It is not the clearest of tickets!
> >
> > The basic idea is that an NGI hosts a number of services that
> (somehow)
> > need to be monitored and declared more formally as core NGI services -
> > such as VOMS and the top-BDIIs - as they are not part of the grid
> site as
> > such. The agreed approach was to group them into a 'sort of'
> virtual site
> > that can declare states for those services in the same way as an
> actual
> > resource site component (SE, CE...) is declared. I need to read
> that ticket
> > a few more times to check the actual steps being suggested...
>
> It looks like there's the possibility for a 'Service Group' which looks,
> as far as I can see, quite a lot like a site, but may be a slightly
> better
> fit for this purpose than actually setting up a site in the normal
> manner.
>
> It's not clear to me whether a resource can 'belong' to its actual
> site, and
> be in a service group, or whether it can only belong to one, but I'd
> suggest
> we set up a service group and give it a go. It shouldn't break
> anything[1].
> We are going to need a contact email address for it though - that
> should be
> a mailing list maintained on suitably non-GridPP infrastructure, and
> also
> probably not at RAL.
>
> Ewan
>
> [1] I mean, what could possibly go wrong, right?
>
>
>
>
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