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Grid Tech TeamCertificates, Monitoring, &

FirewallSeptember 15, 2003Chiang Mai, Thailand

Allan Doyle, NASAWith the help of the entire Grid Tech Team

September 15, 2003Grid Tech Team 2

Certificates


Virtual Organization Definition

• Grid Virtual Organization (VO)– Set of resources (computers, storage

systems)– Distributed among participating

organizations– Available for use by a group of users– Is defined by the grouping of resources plus

the grouping of individuals, brought together for a common purpose under mutually acceptable governing rules.


Organizations, Resources, Users, and Virtual Organizations

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Storage ResourceCompute Resource

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VOX

VOY

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Creating a VO• Hosts and users must obtain certificates• Users are then granted access to hosts

(by the owners of the hosts).• The set of users coupled with the set of

hosts they are allowed onto is what “defines” the VO

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Compute Resource

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CCS SSSSS

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VOX

VOY

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CEOS Grid

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USGS EDC

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GMUESA ESRIN

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NASA ADG

CNES

ColorsBlue - CEOS CertificatesGreen - DataGrid CertificatesBlack - TBD


CEOS Grid - CAs• CEOS Grid Users will not all have the

same CA• We want to limit the number of CAs to

the smallest possible set.– Makes management easier– Makes policy decisions easier

• European users already have a high-quality operational CA

• US Users are encouraged to obtain certificates from NASA IPG


CEOS Certificates from NASA IPG

• NASA Information Power Grid (IPG) already runs a high-quality CA that is accepted by most VOs.

• NASA IPG is providing CA resources for the CEOS Grid.

• Current status– Certificate request software has been delivered &

tested.– Operating well at 2 test sites (II, SGT) and at GMU.– Others are encouraged to try it out.

• Availabilityhttp://grid-tech.ceos.org/gridwiki/CeosGridVirtualOrganizationUsername ceos-grid, password grid-tech– Small tar file & quick installation instructions

http://grid-tech.ceos.org/gridwiki/CeosGridVirtualOrganization


Monitoring


Network Monitoring


Grid Tools Monitoring


Firewall


General Firewall Issues• Using the Grid means that you have to make

new services accessible to the internet– System administrators and security people will be

uncomfortable with this– Some sites have different policies, some are set up

to allow experimentation outside the firewall• What you can do

1. Familiarity - install & test on a machine outside the firewall, learn about the Grid

2. Provide information about security issues to people who need it

3. Develop a relationship with the people you depend on for access


Firewall• Tech Team has put together a firewall

documenthttp://grid-tech.ceos.org/gridwiki/FirewallBestCommonPractices• Contents

– Introductory material• CEOS Grid overview; Quick primer on Grids; Globus port

numbers– Site specific sections

• Meant to be filled in by each site with anything you learned that might help someone else

– Product specific info• Currently only one - Cisco instructions

– Miscellaneous• Open Questions; References; To Do


CEOS Grid Toolkit


CEOS Grid Components• Baseline (Core)

– Globus 2.4.2 with latest bug-fix packages - see advisories page at:

• http://www-unix.globus.org/toolkit/advisories.html?version=2.4 – Grid Packaging Toolkit (GPT) 2.2.9– IPG Certificate Authority Package 0.0.3

– EU Data Grid 2.0 (being used by ESA)• Globus 2.4

• Other Dependent Packages– Java Community Grid Kit (Java CoG) 1.1– Other COG’s (Perl/Python)


Globus 2.4.2 Advisories*• GridFTP Server 1.9• Gram Job Manager 3.13• Gram Client Tools 3.6• GSI Sysconfig 0.10• Globus Common 3.14• LDAP Modules 0.12• GSI Credential 0.9• GSI Cert. Utils 0.12• GSI Proxy Core 0.8• GSI Proxy Utils 0.9• FTP Control 1.9

*As of 8/11/2003


Grid Components we’re Tracking

• Globus 3.0• Metadata Catalog Service (MCS) (Current

version as of 8/11/03)– Open Grid Services Architecture – Data Access &

Integration• (OGSA DAI 2.5 - http://www.ogsadai.org.uk/)

– Community Authorization Service (CAS) Alpha R2 Release

• OGSA DAI 3.0 – Ported version of MCS – planned

• MCS with Spatial Query capabilities – planned• Storage Resource Broker/Metadata Catalog

(SRB/MCAT) V. 2.1.2– Globus Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI)


CEOS Grid Toolkit• WGISS participants are developing higher-level tools &

components• GMU

– OGC WCS with GridFTP back end– OGC WCS with Grid front end– OGC Catalog wrapper on Grid MCS– Reprojection service, 13 NASA EOS projections

• ESA– Grid Engine - multi-Grid job management– Web Notification - Grid-to-Web events– Grid Portal - Web control of Grid applications– Reprojection Service


CEOS Grid Toolkit Catalog• We need to put some thought into how

we want to describe the components.• Possible metadata elements (thanks to Stu

Doescher):– short name– long name– summary description– pointer to additional discussion– latest version and date– maturity - new, obsolete– other parts needed– recommendations

– Contact points• supported and by who• used by

– Technical parts• Language• how to install• problems


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