Services
By joining the NGS a Site gets access to the technical expertise of all members as well as the centrally run services which are provided for all to use. This enables members to take advantage of existing services in order to solve commonly encountered problems.
| Problem | Service | Description | User | HEI | NGS Service |
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How do I control who is accessing my resource in a secure manner? |
CA | Certificate Authority responsible for signing UK Certificates and ensuring that the correct policies are in place for international acceptance | Managing Certificates | NA | CA Web Interface |
| SARoNGS | A service that allows the use of HEI's UK Access Management Federation credentials to access the NGS (Shibboleth) | in progress | in progress | Shibboleth | |
| RA | Registration Authority is a authorised person who can approve CA certificate requests. Normally based at each HEI and audited by the NGS | Finding your RA |
setting up an RA | RA web interface (for RAs only) | |
| VOMS | A Service where communities can setup their own Virtual Organisations and users can ask to become members | VOMs Interface | NA | VOMS | |
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How do I account for the usage of my resource? |
RUS | Allows HEI to publish the use of their services to the NGS. Users and Virtual Organisation can then view their data | User UAS | RUS Clients and VO UAS (Optional) | RUS Server |
| APEL | EGEE Sites Publish there accounting information via APEL. This can be integrated into the NGS accounting scheme | User UAS | APEL | APEL | |
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How do I advertise my resources to my users? |
UEE | Uniform Execution Environment - A script deployed by the resource provider that invokes applications. Information is published to the NGS BDII | Available Applications | UEE publishing | NA |
| BDII | HEIs publish information about their resources to the BDII. Other services such as the WMS query this information and make decisions | Querying BDII | Publishing to the BDII (GLUE) | Installing a BDII | |
| GOCDB | All NGS Sites use the EGEE GOCDB Service to provide information on their Sites. | GOCDB |
GOCDB Joining Guide | GOCDB Service |
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How do I know my resources are available? |
INCA | All NGS resources are monitored for availability and the functions they support. | INCA Web Interface | INCA Configuration | INCA Service |
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What do I need to do to make my resources available? |
Middleware Installation | The components needed to be part of the NGS. | NA | Installation Documentation | NGS Software Stack |
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How do my users access resources on the NGS? |
MyProxy | Users upload a proxy of their certificate using the Certificate Wizard tool to the MyProxy Server. The uploaded proxy is then available for use by applications | Certificate Wizard |
Installation Documentation (Optional) | MyProxy Service |
| UI/WMS |
User Interface machine that allows access to the NGS Workload Management System (WMS) Workload Management System allows jobs to be routed to the resources which are available, support the VO and have the required application installed |
UI/WMS | NA | UI/WMS Service | |
| User Tools | Tools to help you use all the NGS resources available. | Tools | |||
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How do I get help? |
NGS Helpdesk | Central Helpdesk System that supports users and sites | Help |
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| Problem | Service | Description | User | HEI | NGS Service |