March 2002 Status report

Goals this month

  1. Equipment status
  2. Set up a Remote Registration Manager
  3. Update CP/CPS.
  4. European Data Grid status

Achievements

Equipment Status

We have ordered all the Sun servers that we will be deploying for the full service.  The Secure racks specification is nearing completion and should go out in early April. The UPSs have arrived and will be installed with the racks.  Facility planning will be contacted to schedule the installation when component arrival is closer. We are looking at Summer time for the build out of the secure enclosures.  We are still doing product review for the hardware key manager. Product review should be done in April then a procurement  decision can be made.  Complete build out should happen this summer.  

Set up of Remote Registration Manager

Two of the new servers have been built out for the development environment.  They are being used to focus on the issues for managing a remote Registration manager. NERSC is the first customer for this service and they have been working with the ESnet team to determine the configuration and deployment issues. The goal is to produce a shrink wrap solution for RMs.  This will facilitate additional deployments of this service.

Update CP/CPS

Version 2.0 of the CP/CPS has been undergoing extensive revision and review.  The document went out for final review at the end of the month.  A number of issues were turned up and have been discussed on the PMA list.  No show stoppers have been discovered, but a number of details have to be resolved.  The CP is becoming more mature and the issues that are now being address are focusing on operational dependences of Globus and other middle ware software.  Version 2.0 should be released in April

European Data Grid status

EDG has accepted our CA as a peer. They are in the process of adding the needed files to their services.  Demonstrations of this functionality continue.  We have one open issue with CRLs.  There is a disagreement on the meaning of the next update date in the CRLs.  GSI will not accept a CRLs whose next update field in not in the future. This is considered a bug and we have opened a bug report with Globus.  No progress has been made on reviewing EDG participants CPs by our PMA.  This will take time. The major milestone for this is July, when EDG's test bed 2 starts. 

Schedule

Item

Date

Comments

Install Hosts

Oct, 23

3 Systems have been racked

Root CA

November, 30

 

No significant work in December

 

Travel, vacation and laboratory seasonal closer.

RA for PPDG and NFC

January 15, 2002

 

Order equipment, servers etc.

February 8, 2002

This is for the secure build out of the PKI in Room 2275.

RA for PNNL

February 15, 2002

Done  

Beta PPDG, NFC & PNNL certificates

February 15, 2002

Done

Hire developer

March 1, 2002

Done

Add a RM and Directory server to development environment March 15, 2002 Done

EDG participation

April 1, 2002

Done  

Order Racks and remaining components of service April 30, 2002  
Version 2.0 of CP/CPS April 30, 2002  

CA repository online

May 15, 2002

Rescheduled from 3/1 to 5/15 milestone

Start adding new RAs

May 15, 2002

New RAs will be added to schedule. This is dependent on the Secure servers being finished and configured.

CP/CPS – sign off

June 1, 2002

PMA has been set up and approves CP/CPS

Migrate Beta CA/RAs systems to match final CP.

July 15, 2002

 

Issue EDG acceptable Certificates for Test Bed 2

July 1, 2002

 

General release of service

October 1, 2002

System support staff take over daily operation

 

Problems

No significant problems exist at this time.