[gin] Re: [gin-jobs] Job Endpoint Verification Tests

[Stuart Martin]

Hi Steven,

Thierry Delaitre (and team) has setup a portal that can provide the  
testing of GIN infrastructure that we are looking for.

The GIN portal can be accessed on the following URL:
     https://gin-portal.cpc.wmin.ac.uk:8080/gridsphere/gridsphere

The next step is to add periodic testing/monitoring and interactive  
testing for individual GIN users to the GIN portal.
The NGS portal has an example of the automated periodic testing GMT  
portlet that will be added to the GIN portal.
It is accessible at the following URL: https://gngs- 
portal.cpc.wmin.ac.uk:8080/gridsphere/gridsphere and then clicking on  
the GT4/GEMLCA monitor portlet.

Thanks Thierry for setting this up!

This will show that:
     1) interoperation is possible to all (or most all?) GIN  
resources via a portal.
     2) The client API the portal uses to interact with each GIN  
resource island is interoperable.
         e.g. using the GramJob java API from GT 4.0.2 can be used to  
submit jobs too X WS GRAM island resources

-Stu

On Aug 3, 2006, at Aug 3, 8:44 AM, Steven Newhouse wrote:

> All,
>
> Within the 'GIN management' we have spent some time discussing how  
> we can verify the integrity of the emerging infrastructure. At the  
> moment we have several pools of resources:
> * Pre-WS GRAM
> * WS GRAM
> * ARC
> * JSDL
>
> We need some definition of 'compliance' that can be used by the  
> infrastructure verification (testers!) and application community to  
> say that a particular resource is working.
>
> I am aware of some old work in the UK in the Grid Integration Test  
> Scripts (GITS - http://www.soton.ac.uk/~djb1/gits.html) which may  
> be OK for pre-WS GRAM. INCA has verification tests but are designed  
> (I believe) to run much more as a background monitoring task than a  
> user driven compliance check. Likewise there are monitoring  
> infrastructures developed within EGEE bu the GOCs.
>
> We need something lightweight (manual?) that can be triggered by a  
> user to see if job submission into these resources works for them  
> from their current location. Either a script or a series of  
> documented tests.
>
> So...
> 1. Do you have a series of manual tests that could be contributed?
> 2. (Semi-) automated scripts that could be used to verify a  
> resource's operation?
>
> Or other approaches/solutions that could be used in this area...  
> now is the time to speak up!
>
> Steven
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