Proposal to create the Metrics Implementation Group MIG

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Proposal to create theMetrics Implementation
Group (MIG)

• Alistair Mills
• OCC, CERN
• alistair.mills_at_cern.ch
• project-eu-egee-sa1-mig_at_cern.ch
• 12 June 2007

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Remarks about how we do things

• Groups working on things should not be left on
  their own.
• For example
• GGUS has the ESC
• CIC has the COD meetings
• GOCDB has its advisory group
• SAM has something?
• However
• ROCs get little help with deliverables/
  milestones
• OCC gets little help with quarterly reports
• OCC gets little help with EU reviews
• The plan for the deliverables/ milestones misses
  coordination
• Result
• deliverables are not as useful as they could be
• things are done at the last minute
• the information which is required for a document
  is not readily available
• often quite stressful for the individuals
  concerned

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Related work

• MSA1.1 - Defines the set of metrics for SA1 and
  the quarterly reporting requirements
• APG - Accounting Portal Group - Started December
  2006
• This is satisfactory
• Extend the mandate of this group and put its work
  on the agenda for a future ARM
• QAG - Quality Assurance Group
• This group meets monthly and guides the work of
  JRA2
• Alistair attends these meetings (Pawel is deputy)
• SA1 is getting some time from Etienne Urbah to
  work on the MIG
• DSA1.4 - Production Infrastructure Assessment - 1
  - March 2007
• This was an important deliverable
• Its readiness was affected by data not being
  readily available
• There were commitments made in the deliverable to
  improvements coming in DSA1.7
• DSA1.7 - Production Infrastructure Assessment - 2
  - February 2008
• One of the two main reasons for the MIG is to
  support this deliverable

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MSA1.1 Activity Metrics Defined

• This deliverable provides a list of metrics for
  SA1 in five groups
• https//edms.cern.ch/document/723928
• Size metrics - 8 items
• Operations metrics - 5 items
• Usage metrics - 5 items
• user support metrics - 8 items
• service metrics - 12 items
• Not all metrics are required for the quarterly
  report
• The milestone makes no commitment to
  implementation
• Good work done by Maite in April 2006

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Prototype of quarterly metrics

• In November 2006, I wrote a note to collect
  together my ideas about how we could make the
  measurements.
• http//egee-docs.web.cern.ch/egee-docs/mig/pdf/Pro
  totype_of_metrics_quarterly_report_137_08.pdf
• At that time, the only metric which did not have
  a measurement was file transfer. This has now
  been implemented by GridView
• Since Q03, quarterly report contains a set of
  pointers to metric sources
• The source of the metrics include
• Gstat
• Gridview
• SAM
• GridIce
• GOC-DB
• CESGA
• APEL
• GGUS
• Some scripts

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Useful URLs for this work

• Web site for the MIG
• http//egee-docs.web.cern.ch/egee-docs/list.php?di
  r./mig
• Mission statement
• http//egee-docs.web.cern.ch/egee-docs/mig/mig_mis
  sion_164_01.txt
• Set of meetings
• http//egee-docs.web.cern.ch/egee-docs/list.php?di
  r./mig/meetings
• Test implementation
• http//egee-docs.web.cern.ch/egee-docs/list.php?di
  r./mig/test_implementation

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Progress so far

• Got the support of Ian Bird for this work
• Etienne is working on this, 40 of his time
• Alistair is working on this, 10 of his time
• Obtained a commitment for help from ROC-NE
• Test implementation of the size metrics part
• Container available for the other four parts
• Schedule of meetings for June/ July/ August
• Mailing list
• Expect to be able to use this for QR06 (October
  07)
• Report at EGEE07

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Call for participation

• Alistair Mills, OCC, CERN
• Etienne Urbah, LAL, CNRS, France
• Coen xxx, SARA, Netherlands
• Pawel Wolniewicz, POZNAN, Poland
• Someone from GGUS (Guenter?)
• Someone from GOC/APEL (Dave?)
• Someone from Gridview (Zdenek?)
• Someone from CESGA (Javier?)
• Someone from SAM (Piotr?)
• Someone from GSTAT (Min?)
• Someone from COD (Gilles?)
• Someone from the monitoring groups (James?)
• Someone from the Service Level Agreement group
  (Ioannis?)
• Someone from GridIce (Sergio?)

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Questions/ Comments

• Questions?
• Comments?

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