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Preparation of the pilot, i.e. packaging and test installation by T6 developers, started at beginning of 2017/07, since start of 2017/08 UAT test-installation by GEANT operations is in progress.
During that installation and application dependency issues where found, identified and solved together with the T6 developers.
Basically Fod v1.5 pilot is using similar resources as existing FoD v1.1 production service:
I.e. a VM for FoD installed along with all its python dependencies, mysql DB, and further requirements on host, i.e. beanstalkd, apache with shibboleth support (for eduGAIN support).
Also, same as for FoD v1.1, FoD v1.5 VM needs access to one GEANT core router via NETCONF to synchronize the DDoS mitigation rules via BGP FlowSpec.
In addition to that, FoD v1.5 needs SNMP access to particular MIB variables on all GEANT core routers for fetching individual statistics of performed mitigation on each router of per published BGP FlowSpec rules,
which is the only operational requirement needed beyond the requirements for v1.1.
Also an excel document (KPIs_2017_09.xlsx) of appropriate Pilot criteria/KPIs has been prepared (update of corresponding pilot criteria document for v1.1).
This contains criteria to be tested by users as well as criteria to be tested by operator (GEANT) of the service.
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