<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I would start with monitoring data, i.e. all prometheus metrics being collected. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">But those in itself are not really useful without a picture of the infrastructure and access to the infrastructure. And you might need access to ticket systems, since you want to correlate the metrics with incidents. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">My point is, we need to open up _all_ aspects of operations to make it actually useful, otherwise it'll be just a pile of data.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I was hoping that the newly build out NERC could be the blueprint for this. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 3:15 AM Michael Daitzman <<a href="mailto:msd@bu.edu">msd@bu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(14,16,26);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As we think about making operational data from the </span><a href="https://massopen.cloud" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(74,110,224);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mass Open Cloud</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(14,16,26);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> available to the open source community, we need to define what data and data streams will be useful and gathered. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(14,16,26);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This email is meant to begin a discussion and define that. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(14,16,26);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">TS;WM:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(14,16,26);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Some context - the Mass Open Cloud (MOC) is a research cloud formed as a public-private partnership between 5 Research Universities, a group of partner companies, and the state of Massachusetts. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(14,16,26);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The MOC has always had a goal of sharing operational data about the MOC to enable research on cloud computing technologies. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(14,16,26);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As teams working on OI Labs projects began discussing operational data, one question was, “can the MOC share that data to the open source community?”</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(14,16,26);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To a great extent, this becomes part of a “Research Compliance” question and may be affected by various grants which have funded the MOC (good news - in almost every grant the PI’s have made clear that data sharing is a goal). </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(14,16,26);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As we looked into making such information available, I had a brief discussion with the director of BU’s Research Computing group who helped frame how we should approach this question. The first steps are: </span></p>
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<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(14,16,26);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(14,16,26);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Defining what data and data streams will be useful and gathered is the first step</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(14,16,26);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(14,16,26);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Based on that we may identify which populations may be affected</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(14,16,26);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(14,16,26);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Decide on the next steps based on the answers to item 1 and 2 above</span></p></li>
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