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EG-ADM-7: Documentation Review Test

This page captures status for the test case EG-ADM-7, which verifies the availability of Documentation for the ExoGENI rack. For overall status see the ExoGENI Acceptance Test Status page.

Last Updated: 2013-02-05

Test Status

This section captures the status for each step in the acceptance test plan.

Step State Ticket Comments
1. ExoGENI Rack Installation Documentation Color(green,Pass)?
2. ExoGENI Rack Part List Documentation Color(green,Pass)?
3. ExoGENI Software Components Identification Documentation Color(green,Pass)?
4. ExoGENI and OS Upgrade Plans Color(orange,Partial)?
5. ExoGENI Software Components Functional Description and Access to Source code Color(orange,Partial)?
6. ExoGENI Rack Resources Usage and Policy Documentation Color(red,Fail)?
7. ExoGENI Rack Resources Administration Color(orange,Partial)?
8. ExoGENI Rack Administrative procedure for user accounts Color(red,Fail)?
9. ExoGENI Rack Administrative procedure for rack operations Color(red,Fail)?
10. ExoGENI Rack Administrative procedure for rack scheduled shutdown Color(red,Fail)?
11. ExoGENI Rack Administrative procedure for Emergency Stop. Color(red,Fail)?
12. ExoGENI Rack Administrative procedure for health status Color(orange,Partial)?
13. ExoGENI Rack Site Operations documentation Color(red,Fail)?
14. Site Specific ExoGENI Deployment Data Color(orange,Partial)?


State Legend Description
Color(green,Pass)? Documentation review completed and met all criteria
Color(#98FB98,Pass: most criteria)? Documentation review completed and met most criteria. Exceptions documented
Color(red,Fail)? Documentation review completed and failed to meet criteria
Color(yellow,Complete)? Documentation review completed but will require re-execution due to expected changes
Color(orange,Partial)? Minimal Documentation was found
Color(#63B8FF,In Progress)? Currently under review


ExoGENI Documentation Tests

The ExoGENI Documentation Tests focus on documentation review, and apply the following criteria for each document:

Documents to be reviewed are listed below.

1. ExoGENI Rack Installation Documentation

The goal of this evaluation:

To find pre-installation document that lists specific minimum requirements for all site-provided services for potential rack sites (e.g. space, number and type of power plugs, number and type of power circuits, cooling load, public addresses, NLR or Internet2 layer2 connections, etc.). This document should also list all standard expected rack interfaces (e.g. 10GBE links to at least one research network).

Evaluation Results: Color(green,Pass)?

In the ExoGENI Rack Details page there are pages that details the hardware:

2. ExoGENI Rack Part List Documentation

The goal of this evaluation:

To find a summary ExoGENI Rack parts list, including vendor part numbers for "standard" equipment intended for all sites (e.g. a VM server) and per-site equipment options (e.g. transceivers, PDUs etc.), if any. This document should also indicate approximately how much headroom, if any, remains in the standard rack PDUs' power budget to support other equipment that sites may add to the rack.

Evaluation Results: Color(green,Pass)?

There is not one document, but a series of parts lists pages were found at the http://www.exogeni.net site:

Power requirements are listed in the ExoGENI Rack, Worker Node, and Head Node pages.

PDU requirements are specified in the ExoGENI Rack page.

Transceivers are defined as site specific. Readers are instructed to confirm their site needs before purchasing any equipment.

A ExoGENI Connection diagram is available on the ExoGENI Rack that documents node wiring.

3. ExoGENI Software Components Identification Documentation

The goal of this evaluation:

Find a procedure for identifying the software versions and system file configurations running on a rack, and how to get information about recent changes to the rack software and configuration.

Evaluation Results: Color(green,Pass)?

The ExoGENI Software page provides a detailed overview of the ORCA components and many links to provide background information for the various components and access to code for those components. Configuration information can be found at the private ExoGENI rack configuration page, which details:

ORCA installation and configuration is covered in the ORCA for an Aggregate Owner page. Also a Deploying an Authority (Aggregate Manager/AM) page is available at the ORCA wiki which provides configuration instructions for deploying an AM.

4.ExoGENI and OS Upgrade Plans

The goal of this evaluation:

Find documentation that explains how and when ExoGENI software and OS updates can be performed on a rack, including plans for notification and update if important security vulnerabilities in rack software are discovered.

Evaluation Results: Color(red,Fail)? No documentation was found in known public locations that described ExoGENI Upgrades. A page was found which provides a diagram of the Software update process for the rack and states that the ExoGENI/ORCA team is responsible for the upgrade of the "ORCA" and "OpenStack+Quantum" components. No insight is given into who is responsible for the remaining components.

5. ExoGENI Software Components Functional Description and Access to Source code

The goal of this evaluation:

Find documentation that provides a description of the ExoGENI software running on a standard rack, and explanation of how to get access to the source code of each piece of standard GENI software.

Evaluation Results: Color(orange,Partial)?

Source can be found at the https://geni-orca.renci.org, but it is not obvious how to map it to the ExoGENI rack components.

There is the components overview in the wiki.exogeni.net location at the ExoGENI Software page which provides a detailed overview of the ORCA components, but there are few pointers to source:

6. ExoGENI Rack Resources Usage and Policy Documentation

The goal of this evaluation:

Find documentation that provides a description of all the GENI experimental resources within the rack, and what policy options exist for each, including: how to configure rack nodes as bare metal vs. VM server, what options exist for configuring automated approval of compute and network resource requests and how to set them, how to configure rack aggregates to trust additional GENI slice authorities, and whether it is possible to trust local users within the rack.

Evaluation Results: Color(red,Fail)? No documentation was found for usage and policy in the known public locations, thus unable to verify the content.

7. ExoGENI Rack Resources Administration

The goal of this evaluation:

Find documentation that provides a description of the expected state of all the GENI experimental resources in the rack, including how to determine the state of an experimental resource and what state is expected for an unallocated bare metal node.

Evaluation Results: Color(orange,Partial)?

The following private pages provide insight into rack resources administration:

Found various smaller documents that start to define the available resources such as:

8. ExoGENI Rack Administrative procedure for user accounts

The goal of this evaluation:

Find documentation that provides a procedure for creating new site administrator and operator accounts.

Evaluation Results: Color(red,Fail)?

There experimenter account instructing users to get a GENI account and detailing the required whitelist authorization in the https://wiki.exogeni.net/doku.php?id=public:experimenters:start experimenter] page. There are administrative instructions to set up SM whitelist of users.

No pages were found describing the set up of administrative or operator account.

9. ExoGENI Rack Administrative procedure for rack operations

The goal of this evaluation:

Find documentation that provides a procedure for changing IP addresses for all rack components.

Evaluation Results: Color(red,Fail)?

Unable to find any procedure for modifying IP addresses for all rack components.

10. ExoGENI Rack Administrative procedure for rack scheduled shutdown

The goal of this evaluation:

Find documentation that provides a procedure for cleanly shutting down an entire rack in case of a scheduled site outage.

Evaluation Results: Color(red,Fail)?

Unable to find any procedure for rack shut down in the ExoGENI wiki. However there is a version of Emergency disconnect documented at the GPO ExoGENI Administration page.

ExoGENI team needs to review review and make part of their procedures.

11. ExoGENI Rack Administrative procedure for Emergency Stop.

The goal of this evaluation:

Find documentation that provides a procedure for performing a shutdown operation on any type of sliver on a rack, in support of an Emergency Stop request.

Evaluation Results: Color(red,Fail)?

Unable to find any procedure in support of Emergency Stop.

12. ExoGENI Rack Administrative procedure for health status

The goal of this evaluation:

Find documentation that provides a procedure for performing comprehensive health checks for a rack (or, if those health checks are being run automatically, how to view the current/recent results).

Evaluation Results: Color(orange,Partial)?

No health check procedures found. The private monitoring page provides links for:

13. ExoGENI Rack Site Operations documentation

The goal of this evaluation:

Find documentation that provides a Technical plan for handing off primary rack operations to site operators at all sites.

Evaluation Results: Color(red,Fail)?

None found.

14. Site Specific ExoGENI Deployment Data

The goal of this evaluation:

Find documentation that provides Per-site deployment details/documentation. This documentation should be prepared before sites are installed and kept updated after installation to reflect any changes or upgrades after delivery. Text, network diagrams, wiring diagrams and labeled photos are all acceptable for site documents. Per-site documentation should include the following items for each site:

  1. Part numbers and quantities of PDUs, with NEMA input power connector types, and an inventory of which equipment connects to which PDU.
  2. Physical network interfaces for each control and data plane port that connects to the site's existing network(s), including type, part numbers, maximum speed etc. (eg. 10-GB-SR fiber)
  3. Public IP addresses allocated to the rack, including: number of distinct IP ranges and size of each range, hostname to IP mappings which should be placed in site DNS, whether the last-hop routers for public IP ranges subnets sit within the rack or elsewhere on the site, and what firewall configuration is desired for the control network.
  4. Data plane network connectivity and procedures for each rack, including core backbone connectivity and documentation, switch configuration options to set for compatibility with the L2 core, and the site and rack procedures for connecting non-rack-controlled VLANs and resources to the rack data plane. A network diagram is highly recommended (See existing OpenFlow meso-scale network diagrams on the GENI wiki for examples.)

Evaluation Results: Color(orange,Partial)?

No site information was found in the public pages, but the private ExoGENI wiki area has a Sites page captures each rack site. All site sub-pages consistently showed that the following are being tracked: "Site Address", , "Site Contacts", "Public IP Space", and "Private IP Space".

Some sites sub-pages inconsistently may have any one of these topics: "Rack Requirements", "Head Node Interfaces", "Public Internet Connectivity", "Management Switch Layout", "Dataplane Switch Layout", "Out-of-band Connectivity", "iSCI Addresses"

Suggestion: Creating a consistent template for each sub-page for gathering site specific data may help ensure consistency.