Accounting and Monitoring of AAI Services (AMAAIS)

The primary objective of AMAAIS is to enable accounting and monitoring functionality for a Shibboleth-based AAI infrastructure.

General Information

Project Overview

The key goal of the AMAAIS project is the extension of the existing AAI infrastructure, operated by SWITCH. These extensions include services in terms of accounting and monitoring, which enhance the current AAI services. In consequence, a cross-university-wide accounting as well as supervision of these AAI services will be possible. While AMAAIS Phase 1 defined the essential scenarios as well as key requirements for the accounting and monitoring architecture, AMAAIS Phase 2 specified this architecture, implemented a prototype, and integrated a pilot into the existing AAI infrastructure.

AMAAIS Phase 3 aims at an extension beyond the accounting and monitoring extensions of Phases 1 and 2. Phase 3 extensions relate not only to a content- and implementation-wise completion of the system, they also embrace the addition of new functionality and trials under operational conditions.

• Completion addresses the path taken in accounting and monitoring extensions. It foresees, for instance, the existing statistical evaluations to newly cover forward-looking needs too, such as cross-domain interchange of aggregated accounting information, customizable usage reports and the integration into a monitoring tool with alerting (Nagios).
• Addition of new functionality addresses new paths to be taken beyond accounting and monitoring. It foresees the design and implementation of security and charging extensions. The trials under operational constraints, finally, address an extensive testing of existing extensions with users and in a productive environment.

Deliverables

AMAAIS Phase 1: Scenarios, Requirements, and High-Level Architecture; Deliverable 1, October 2009.

AMAAIS Phase 2: Architecture Design and Implementation; Deliverable 2, January 2011.

AMAAIS Phase 3:

• AMAAIS: Workflows, Accounting Model, and API.; Deliverable 3, December 2011.
• Implementation of Charging and New Use Cases, and Visualization; Deliverable 4, planned for end of February 2012.
• Encryption, Privacy, and Regulations, and Final Code Base; Deliverable 5, planned for end of August 2012.

Access to the AMAAIS SVN

The SVN of AMAAIS is maintained by CSG@UZH. Below there are the directories with public access. The public access requires username/password that is amaais/amaais, respectively.

• Meetings: https://www.csg.uzh.ch/svn/amaais/Meetings/
• Deliverables: https://www.csg.uzh.ch/svn/amaais/Deliverables/
• Code (trunk): https://www.csg.uzh.ch/svn/amaais/code/trunk/

The prototype implemented on Phase 2 can also be checked out from the SVN repository. The code produced is not for production purposes and is limited. Any technical question should be forwarded to the project contact.

• Prototype from Phase 2: https://www.csg.uzh.ch/svn/amaais/code/tags/release-v1.0/

Project Partners

• University of Zurich CSG@IFI
• SWITCH
• ETH Zürich, Informatikdienste

UZH Personnel

• Prof. Dr. Burkhard Stiller
• Dr. Peter Racz (Deputy Project Lead Phase 1 and 2)
• Guilherme Sperb Machado
• Dr. Martin Waldburger (Deputy Project Lead Phase 2 and 3)
• Andrei Vancea
• Christos Tsiaras

Contact

Inquiries may be directed to the local Swiss project management:

Prof. Dr. Burkhard Stiller

University of Zürich, IFI

Binzmühlestrasse 14

CH-8050 Zürich

Switzerland

Phone: +41 44 635 67 10

Fax: +41 44 635 68 09