IVOA Operations Interest Group

IVOA Operations Interest Group Charter

Goal of the IVOA Operations Interest Group

Coordinate and publicize activities of individuals, institutions and groups interested in facilitating robust operations of distributed astronomy applications, particularly those based upon implementations of IVOA protocols.

Specific responsibilities

1. Publicize existing forums and encourage new ones for monitoring services, notifications, discussions and questions regarding “real-time” operations of VO / distributed services.
2. Promote discussion within the IVOA on standards and practices that would increase the reliability of VO implementations.
3. Develop nominal implementation strategies for VO services as guides to best practice in the operational use of VO protocols.
4. Periodically provide reports to the IVOA executive and WGs summarizing availability, quality and usage statistics for distributed services and VO protocols.
5. During the IVOA standards review process, assess the validation capabilities that are now required as part of new standards.

Organisation

Chair: Tom McGlynn

Vice Chair: Mark Taylor

Operations Projects

[June 2015] Procedure for Removing Non-Responsive Services

VO-Paris has presented a plan for a process for removing non-responsive services from the Registry which was presented to the Exec and discussed in the Interest Group. A revised version will be provided.

[June 2015] Coordination of VO validation services

It was agreed that the three sites that are currently collecting validation statistics will try to coordinate their activities. The first step is to provide a standard set of identifiers for issues so that results from the validators can be compared. This will allow us to compare the validator results and 'validate' the validators.

NCSA/HEASARC Validation tests (Conesearch and SIA)

VO Paris Validation Test

ESA Validation Tests

Mailing list

ops@ivoa.net

Operations Interest Group discussion forum (archive)

Operations sessions

• General discussion of operational issues of VO services
• Monitoring and validation reviews of VO services
• Development and deployment of validation services
• Discussion of operational best practice in VO service deployment and operations.

IVOA Interoperability Meetings

• InteropOpsJune2015 Sesto

  • Session 1: Group organization and current statistics of VO services
  • Session 2: Useing validation, monitoring and notification services

Links

VO Paris validators: for use directly by developers or to search results of automated scans.

ESA Validators for DAL services

NCSA Cone search and Simple Image Access validators.

TAPLint included in STILTS.

VO Monitoring at the HEASARC

VO Validation at the HEASARC

Validators at VO/Paris

Cone search validator at NCSA

SIA Validator at NCSA

Documents

IVOAOpsCharter-v20150327.docx: Charter for the IVOA Operations Interest Group