System Administration and Network Management Committee

Group Chair: Dave Hancock

Mailing List: administrators@futuregrid.org
 

Draft Charter

The FutureGrid Systems Administration & Network Group is composed of system administrators and network engineers from FutureGrid sites that have local hardware and/or network connections into the testbed. The group's core mission is deployment, maintenance, and management of FutureGrid hardware and network resources. This includes supporting interfaces from the firmware layer to the resource management layer.  The group will strive toward uniformity and simplicity of tools, policies, and procedures to support a single instrument to the national research community. The group will maintain a liaison to the other FutureGrid working groups, and select TeraGrid working groups where possible.
 

Activities:

• Hardware deployment & management
• Network deployment & management
• Provide low-level management interfaces (including cluster management software and hardware interfaces such as IPMI)
• Provide scheduling and resource management interfaces for SW group
• Support low-level counters and monitoring data
• Assist in creating pre-defined environments (both native and virtual)
• Provide tier 2 & 3 support for hardware and network resources
• Maintain and develop network impairment interfaces
• Develop and integrate tools for deployment of dynamic environments (both native and virtual)
• Security response & incident handling (interface with TeraGrid Security Working Group)
• Support of account management and accounting information

Products:

• Logical and physical network diagrams
• List of primary and secondary contacts for each hardware and network resource
• Gather contraints on policy interaction
• Document resource deployment and management procedures
• Provide documentation to the User Support Committee where required

See the Meeting Agendas and Notes.


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Committee Members

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