Operations and Deployment

Deployment

• Bring current deployment up-to-date
  • Build new image for 2GB internal USB memory
  • Design and implement a depot recovery process
  • Send recovery keys out to sites and update the depots
  • Set Nagios back up
  • Develop MOU for current deployment

• Prepare existing hardware for deployment
  • Update image on internal USB (will use for testing of the above recovery process)
  • Send 6 depots to SFASU with additional PDU
  • Find new collaborators/sites

• Define a standard set of software tools for depots
  • Iperf
  • Nagios
  • mtr
  • other tools...

• Gain experience with existing deployment

• Discuss a multi-tiered system for sites
  • Tier 1: Sites that run their own LServer and Chord ring
  • Tier 2: Sites that manage their own REDDnet depots
  • Tier 3: Sites that use their own storage resources as depots
  • Develop MOU for each tier

• Investigate new monitoring and management tools
  • rsync or similar (short term)
  • Perceus (long term)

Monitoring

• Use StorCore, Nagios, iperf, and visualization tools from SC07
  • Have a statistic page that gathers information from tests and presents them cleanly
  • Define support for REDDnet

• Create a REDDnet status site, using google maps

• Create an RT site to resolve users' issues

Validation Framework

• Stress and WAN testing on Production REDDnet
  • Automated testing with Clyde
  • Real world use

• QA testing on Test REDDnet required before moving into production REDDnet
  • A stringent set of tests to test both the hardware, OS, IBP, and LStore as throughly as possible (primarily Clyde)
  • Allow users to test using this system