Development

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O-E-18

Development and maintenance of operational tools – mandatory (EGI.org)

While the tools for accounting are included in the Middleware, other tools are needed to support operations. Examples are: tools for SLA-compliance monitoring, dashboards and alarm systems, ticketing systems, portals, etc., and new tools to improve automation. The maintenance of the set of the tools presently in use on the Europe production Grids and the upgrades that will be necessary for keeping in step with the quantitative and qualitative evolution of the Grid, are included in the responsibility of the Operation function of EGI. This includes monitoring tools to measure and report on the quality of networks used by Grid project to ensure the underlying network infrastructure is working properly and is efficiently used, and that SLA constraints with network providers are met. It is foreseen that EGI.org will only take coordination responsibility (mandatory task) while a set of willing NGI’s will take care of the development work, to be co-funded by the EC.