October 2002 Status report


Goals this month

  1. Equipment status
  2. Certificate service Statistics
  3. Roll out plan for version 2 of DOEGrids
  4. Data center design

Achievements

Equipment status

The last server for the farm has been built out, but we are having problems with the secure racks.  The power to the racks can not be done at this time because of an error in the installation of the racks.  This problem is being worked with Plant Engineering and the rack vendor. This will delay the deployment of the secure racks until the March 2003. The complete move of the servers to the secure racks will be done April 2003.  We currently have the New Root CA, New Subordinate CA (DOEGrids), plus one server that will end up as a RM or other support system.  This completes the build out for the servers - software configurations and testing will be done in November.

Certificate service Statistics as of 11/5

Certs per month issued ~ 40 – 80
Total Certificates issued:  565
Certificates revoked:   54
People Certificates  235
Services Certificates  256
Host (internal usage)    18
Requests in Queue:    7

Roll out schedule for DOEGrids.

Tasks

Dates

Comments

Configure new servers to support DOEGirids.org 11/15/2002 All server software is installed and basic configuration is done. Testing must be done before they are put into production.
Order media vault 12/1/2003 This vault will store the Root CA and associated media for the service.
Order  Black rack security server 12/1/2003 This is the server that will control access to the racks.
Order new Root CA server 12/1/2003 This server is to replace the current root server, with a lower cost model.
Develop operations guide 12/15/2002 The first draft is out for review
Update EDG files 2/1/2003 We must update EDG information before service can be put into production.
DoEGrids production service 2/15/2003 DOEGrids will be put into parallel production with DOE Science grid service.
Complete Black Racks installation. 3/1/2003 Delays caused by improper rack instalation.  
Install Black rack security server 3/1/2003 This is the server that will control pin access to the racks as well as logging events.
Install media vault 3/1/2003 This vault will reside at LBNL. We will also use an offsite repository for security related material - smart cards, etc - off site support and what goes there is a research topic.
Add Firewall policies 3/1/2003 The new servers are on the firewall subnet.  Firewall configuration to support the project will be done by March
Move all PKI servers 4/1/2003 Servers will be moved to the secure racks after testing of the new racks - security, networking, etc They will be housed in temporary racks until the Black racks are done.
Deploy Time servers 1 qtr 2003 This service will provide accurate time to the CA servers. We need to also research the ability to provide secure time.
Deploy a secure logging service 2qtr 03 We need to research how to provide a secure logging service for the CAs.

ESnet Data Center design: