Wednesday, May 27, 2009

OIMv2 released!

The OSG GOC is pleased to announce the release of OIM version 2.0 (to production status) at https://oim.grid.iu.edu.

This is a complete re-write of the OIM application with an updated database backend. Major changes include:
  1. WLCG Installed Capacity: Coordinators of VO that are part of the WLCG interoperability (and/or resource contacts) can enter/modify Installed Capacity information for resources their VO owns
  2. VO Reporting and Subscription; VO contacts can add/modify VO reporting names, associated FQAN and report subscribers
  3. Fields of Science: VOs can associate with field(s) of science(s)
  4. VO Ownership of Resources: Resource contacts can set VO ownership of their resource
  5. Hidden and/or Central Service Registration: Resources can be mapped to multiple services, and tagged hidden if applicable. For example, if the service is a hidden CE.
  6. Over-riding serviceUri: A resource-service's URI can be overridden if applicable. For example, if an SRM runs on foo.grid.iu.edu:60443
  7. Ability to Edit Resource Groups, Sites, Facilities: Registered OIM users are allowed to modify administrative facility and site information as well as resource group information
  8. Multiple Auth-Levels for Users: Registered users can be associated with more than one authorization level; This allows us to provide granular authorization capabilities for various other services like the ticket system, MyOSG, etc.
  9. Comprehensive Audit Capabilities: Changes to various entities are logged, and easily made available to GOC staff and other authorized users. This will help with security as well as various contacts of a resource or a VO knowing what was changed in their registration by who, and when.
  10. New UI: Brand new look for the user interface!

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT PUBLIC VIEWS:

Public views that used to be available at http://oim.grid.iu.edu/pub have mostly been removed from the OIM web interface; these pieces of information are available via MyOSG (http://myosg.grid.iu.edu); Legacy public views, chosen based on past usage, have still been made available at the above link with a warning that they will be phased out as we follow usage or lack of usage. We will be contacting users of the legacy public OIM views to help them towards migrating to MyOSG-provided data.