Grid Service Monitoring Working Group

Most of the information you might be looking for should be here but you can also look at current activity on the Group Sharepoint project.

Also, the work of the group has now been carried on within the context of the EGEE III Operations automation team.

Mandate and General Information

• Working Group Mandate
• A high level overview of the WLCG monitoring group : WLCG Monitoring for Managers (pdf)
• An introduction to WLCG monitoring for grid service developers : Monitoring for Service Developers (pdf)
• LCGMonitoringWorkingGroups - peer groups for Fabric and Application monitoring

WG meeting agendas and presentations can be found here.

Standards

• GridMonitoringDataExchangeStandard - open for comments
• GridMonitoringProbeSpecification - open for comments
• GridMonitoringToolsInterfaceSpecs - first draft of standardized specification of various monitoring components

• GridMonitoringTopologyDatabase - Work in progress

Nagios - Grid Service Monitoring using on-site monitoring

This work is now documented as part of the EGEE OAT Wiki.

Some old information :

• Installation Instructions - old manual version
• Release notes

MSG - A Message System for Grids

• MessagingSystemforGrid - A home page for our work on messaging systems for monitoring integration

Older Pages:

• GridPublisherSpecificationGridView - How to publish messages into GridView via MSG
• GridPublisherDevelopment - planning and progress monitoring of work on Grid Publisher, work in progress
• GridPublisherSpecification - specification of the new transport layer for monitoring information

GridMap Demonstrator - a novel way of visualizing monitoring and state data for the grid

Developed as part of the CERN openlab/EDS collaboration, which takes place within the CERN-IT Grid Deployment group

• First public demonstration at EGEE'07 conference.
• http://gridmap.cern.ch

(More information to be added soon)

Monitoring Systems Review

• GridServiceMonitoringToolSummary
• GridServiceMonitoringDescriptions
• GridServiceMonitoringRelations - notes about the relationship of this group to some other groups
• GridView - the twiki home of the Gridview visualisation project team
• SamCern and EGEE Sam portal - Service Availability Monitoring information pages

Other Resources

• Grid Site Monitoring Questionnaire circulated to grid sites Jan 2007. The returns received are summarised in the WG presentation given at the BOF meeting.
• Grid Service Monitoring Definition Template (.pdf) (.doc) circulated to grid service developers early 2007
• 0703-GridMonitoringPrototype.pdf: Working diagram for prototype

Testing, evaluation and other works-in progress

Outlines and place-holders for works-in-progress closely related to the Grid Service Monitoring Working Group -

• SAMGridViewVisualisationProposal - use cases and ideas on the visualisation of SAM monitoring data, open for contributions
• GridMonitoringGangliaIntegration - prototype integration with Ganglia
• UseLocalActiveMQForMessaging - use ActiveMQ directly to handle messaging. This aims to replace the directory message cache system and to directly send messages in the borker infrastructure.

Contact

• mailto:wlcg-monitoring-wg@cernNOSPAMPLEASE.ch - contact the group coordinators (WG core-group membership)
• mailto:wlcg-monitoring-discuss@cernNOSPAMPLEASE.ch - community support and discussion (subscribe)

Meetings and Presentations

• Working Group meetings on CERN indico
• Monitoring session at LCG GDB - Dec 2007
• WLCG Service Reliability Workshop - Nov 2007
• UK HEP System Managers Meeting - Oct 2007
• Grid Camp 2007, Taipei - Oct 2007
• Monitoring Session in Operations track EGEE'07 - Oct 2007
• GridKa School 'Grid Monitoring' - Sep 2007
• Monitoring Session at CHEP'07 - September 2007
• Grid Operations Workshop - Jun 2007
• Monitoring session at LCG GDB - Jun 2007
• OSG All-hands Meeting - Mar 2007
• WG BOF at WLCG Collaboration Workshop - Jan 2007