Pre-deployment Testing in PPS

The PPS helps by mandate to evaluate deployment procedures, interoperability and basic functionality of the software against scenarios reflecting real production conditions.

The "PPS deployment test activity", coordinated by CESGA-PPS is integrated in the framework of the current release procedure.

To be a member in the pre-deployment team and participate in the testing of services, it's necessary:

• To have installed correctly selected service with last PPS update.
• Be subscripted to pps-deployment-test@cernNOSPAMPLEASE.ch mailing list(using Simba web page, http://listboxservices.web.cern.ch/listboxservices, with a CERN valid user)
• This mailing list is used to communicate new updates to the pre-deployment team

Sites member of this pool are requested to following the next procedure:

• An e-mail is sent by Felix, informing a new Update has been prepared, CERN repositories are ready and with the link to the Release Notes.
• A second e-mail is sent by Alvaro or Esteban with the pre-reports for being filled each service released in the Update
• Each Site fill the report for the service to which is charge to test it
• The Sites upgrade as soon as possible (not more than 1 day) their priority services (see list below)
• Report with the result of the upgrade is sent to the pre-deployment list,
• Pre-deployment test coordinator will summarize the result of the whole test
• The update will be released to PPS, and a bulletin will be created with the summary reports on EGEE Pre-Production Service link.

The pre-deployment test pool is composed as follows:

Distribution of services among testing sites

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Each site should point the respective service to the CERN repository as follows:

For APT (gLite3.0):

• SLC3 services: rpm http://glitesoft.cern.ch/EGEE/gLite/APT/R3.0/ rhel30 externals Release3.0 updates

For YUM (gLite 3.1):

• All services, SLC4 EXCEPT WN: baseurl=http://grid-deployment.web.cern.ch/grid-deployment/glite/pps/3.1
• WN, SLC4: baseurl=http://grid-deployment.web.cern.ch/grid-deployment/glite/pps/3.1/glite-WN/sl4/

For YUM (gLite 3.2):

The new packages can be found on links:

• All services, SLC5: baseurl=http://grid-deployment.web.cern.ch/grid-deployment/glite/pps/3.2/
• Torque client: baseurl=http://grid-deployment.web.cern.ch/grid-deployment/glite/pps/3.2/glite-TORQUE_client/sl5
• WN, SLC5: baseurl=http://grid-deployment.web.cern.ch/grid-deployment/glite/pps/3.2/glite-WN/sl5

- Example of how to configure the new repositories:

• Under /etc/yum.repos.d, create PPS-glite-WN.repo and PPS-glite-TORQUE_client.repo:

[PPS-glite-WN]
name=PPS-glite-WN
baseurl=http://grid-deployment.web.cern.ch/grid-deployment/glite/pps/3.2/glite-WN/sl5/$basearch/
enabled=1

[PPS-glite-TORQUE_client]
name=PPS-glite-TORQUE_client
baseurl=http://grid-deployment.web.cern.ch/grid-deployment/glite/pps/3.2/glite-TORQUE_client/sl5/$basearch/
enabled=1

- Example of how to install and configure the metapackages:

yum groupinstall PPS-glite-WN
yum install PPS-glite-TORQUE_client
/opt/glite/yaim/bin/yaim -c -s site-info.def -n WN -n TORQUE_client

SL5 services summary list

Services in italic characters are already in the production release or about to get there

-- Main.aretico - 25 May 2007

Searched: EstebanFreire