E. GT 4.0.5 Release Notes: Hawkeye Info Information Provider

1. Component Overview

Starting with version 4.0.5, this information provider is included in the GT4 toolkit and is used to gather Hawkeye data about Condor pool resources using the XML mapping of the GLUE schema and report it to a GRAM4 service, which publishes it as resource properties.

The official Condor site states the following: "Hawkeye utilizes the technologies already present in Condor and ClassAds to provide rich mechanisms for collecting, storing, and using information about computers. A Hawkeye system can be used to monitor various attributes of a collection of systems. The monitoring mechanism may also be used then to further the management of systems."

This information includes: basic host data (name, ID), processor information, memory size , OS name and version, file system data, processor load data, other basic Condor host data.

2. Feature Summary

Features new in release 4.0.5:

  • This provider publishes information such as the following: basic host data (name, ID), processor information, memory size, OS name and version, file system data, processor load data, other basic Condor host data.

3. Changes Summary

This is an existing information provider available from GT 4.0.5+.

4. Bug Fixes

There are ongoing fixed bugs for this information provider (see Bugzilla).

5. Known Problems

  • There may currently be bugs for this information provider (see Bugzilla).

6. Technology Dependencies

This information provider depends on the following GT components:

This information provider depends on the following 3rd party software:

  • A working Perl installation
  • A working Condor installation

7. Tested Platforms

Tested Platforms for this information provider:

  • N/A

Tested containers for this information provider

  • Java WS Core container

8. Backward Compatibility Summary

This information provider works with all GT4 and MDS4 releases.

9. Associated Standards

Associated standards for this Information Provider:

  • N/A

10. For More Information

See Hawkeye Information Provider Reference for more information about this information provider.