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Using managed services
You need to obtain a Service Level Agreement before you can use "managed" services.
In order to demonstrate the Inter-Domain
Deployment scenario the basic applications services have been
installed and
configured on the griademo2 system as 'managed'. This means
access to application services is managed by an SLA service and usage
is billed to a Trade Account service. For convenience,
the service provider management package (containing the SLA
and Acccount services) has also been installed on the griademo2 system, although GRIA does not require them to be located on the same machine.
To use all these services follow these steps:
- Ensure the Client package is installed and configured as above.
- Add the 'managed' basic application services to the client by specifying the following URLs (drag the links from your browser into the GRIA client):
- If you try to create a job at this new service as you did for the one at griademo1 you will be refused and told that you need an SLA.
- Add the Trade Account and SLA services to the client by specifying the following URLs:
- Open a Trade Account by selecting the trade account service and clicking on Open Account in the Details tab.
- In a real deployment scenario the next stage would be for the
service provider to perform some credit checks before approving or
denying the account. However, since this is a demo system we will open
the account if you send us an account approval request. Use Update EPR to check the status of your account approval (it will change from
pending-credit-checks to open):
An open trade account
- Once you have received notification of the account approval, select the Sample Job and Data Package 1
SLA template and click on Load Details and then on Propose SLA:
Proposing an SLA
- You can now use the client to store data and run jobs, much as you did before, but managed by the SLA that you proposed and billing to the trade account that you have just opened.
Viewing usage of your SLA.
Consult the Client User Guide for information about monitoring your usage.
