[glue-wg] ATLAS, GLUE and JSON

[Alan Sill]

Hi Paul,

I had approached JP a few months ago with the idea of creating a schema in the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)'s new Redfish architecture specifically to accommodate GLUE data. This would have the following features and advantages:

1) Integrates with a standard already being built into hardware in data center server and storage by several vendors,
2) Would map well to the basic ideas and approach of GLUE
3) Provides existing implementation models using ODATA for organization and both JSON and XML representations for data exchange 
4) DMTF would be willing to give us our own schema directory for Redfish for use with GLUE information.

Redfish is being built into hardware from several major vendors now as a replacement for IPMI (for servers and similar equipment) with some features specifically interesting to GLUE for things like storage through the partnership between the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and DMTF. SNIA's version of Redfish is called Swordfish, and includes a lot of information that would be very good to use as input for gathering up information we normally care about representing at the data-center level with GLUE.

I've thought of a name for this possible use of GLUE in the context of Redfish, which is of course "GLUEfish". The idea is to represent data center level information such as is typically gathered and exchanged in GLUE using the Redfish schema, thereby leveraging existing tools that could gather the information directly from current- and future-generation hardware.

If you are interested in discussing this further, please let me know. Otherwise, here are some useful links:

Redfish Developer Site: http://redfish.dmtf.org <http://redfish.dmtf.org/>

Specifications:

  Redfish standard:  http://www.dmtf.org/redfish <http://www.dmtf.org/redfish>
  OData: http://www.odata.org/documentation <http://www.odata.org/documentation>
  JSON-schema: http://www.json-schema.org <http://www.json-schema.org/>

I'd love to talk about this more with the GLUE group in general.

Alan



> On Oct 12, 2016, at 5:25 PM, Paul Millar <paul.millar at desy.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> <background>
> 
> A little while ago, the WLCG VO ATLAS started investigating how to do storage accounting in a platform neutral fashion (i.e., not depending on SRM).
> 
> Their idea was that a site would "somehow" ensure that their storage system always has a file containing the necessary information.  The file would be stored in a standard location.  ATLAS could then read this file using whichever protocol is easiest.
> 
> The plan was for this file would be encoded as JSON.  They also put together a rough description of how this file should look like.
> 
> I suggested that they investigate GLUE 2 and the GLUE-JSON binding, rather than coming up with their own proprietary solution.
> 
> </background>
> 
> So, ATLAS are asking for some information:
> 
>  o	people with whom they can discuss how to use
> 	GLUE2 and GLUE-JSON.
> 
>  o	tools that parse GLUE-JSON.  I guess this would be mostly
> 	from XSEDE guys.
> 
> So, does anyone want to help them evaluate GLUE 2?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Paul.
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