Publikace na Matematicko-fyzikální fakulta |
2010
Abstrakt
Running a Tier-2 WLCG site is a demanding task, especially given the ever increasing number of machines, auxiliary hardware and accompanying software packages. System administrators have always tried to find ways to reduce their efforts while not compromising systems' security and reliability.
In this paper, we focus on reducing the duplication of information describing a complete datacenter, including the relations between various components. We provide details about the Deska project, an in-house CLI appliance for managing these metadata.