EGI accounting

[ernst pijper]

Hi,

How do we deal with user accounting when using DIRAC? The thing that is accounted by the grid cluster, is the pilot job, which uses the same (robot) proxy for all user jobs.

But how can we account for the individual use jobs? I haven't looked at the accounting done by DIRAC yet. So maybe my question is of the RTFM type :( Can DIRAC send user accounting to the EGI accounting system? How does the egi dirac setup deal with this?

Thanks in advance,

Ernst

[Andrei Tsaregorodtsev]

Hi Ernst,

DIRAC has an independent Accounting system to account for various things including user activities. You should have a look at it in your DIRAC installation and eventually set it up if not yet done. The EGI DIRAC service provides all the user accounting.

We do not have a tool to send accounting information to the EGI accounting system. This was discussed several times but we have not arrived to a reasonable compromise.

Depending on some particular needs, we can set up different pilot flavours, for example, so that they appear as separate activities in the EGI accounting. We can discuss it

depending on what would you expect from the accoutning.

  Cheers,

  Andrei