Catalogue:Infrastructure

iMarine as an infrastructure offers a variety of functionality to its end users directly or to Infrastructure Managers. The functionality that are offered mainly by gCube services ( in gCube terminology named Enabling services ) or third party tools can be classified in the following categories:

• Deployment : The Infrastructure trough its enabling services is capable of automatic deploy and activate Software Bundles remotely, thus allowing administrators to remotely manage software installation and upgrades.

• Hosting : End user are capable to upload, deploy and activate their software bundles ( war) on the Infrastructures by relying on a simple and intuitive Graphical Wizard and Management interface.

• Resources Lifecycle : Services and nodes running on the infrastructure can be managed remotely in terms of activation/deactivation, assignment to VOs and VREs ( which dynamically groups users and resorces assigned to them), publication to an Information System for their easy discovering.

• Monitoring : Services and nodes deployed on the infrastructure are monitored semi-automatically by the usage of de-facto standard tools, like Nagios and Nagios-NRPE. Infrastructure Administrators and Site Managers can be notified in case of issues and promptly react.

• Accounting : The infrastructure account the usage of the tools that are provided trough its Graphical interfaces. In addition the accounting at the level of resources ( storage, CPUs etc) not yet available is going to be included soon, and will help administrators in the definition of policies on the usage of the infrastructure.

• Security : The services to protect gCube infrastructure resources from unauthorized accesses

• Workflow Execution