Globus: proposed management structure and procedures

Groups

1. University of Alabama at Birmingham Subscription Managers

• What is the purpose of this group? I assume it's a Globus internal mechanism for Globus to manage which Globus identities are authorized to manage our subscription.

2. University of Alabama at Birmingham (HA)

• This group allows us to manage which Globus identities are allowed to access subscription-specific features, such as GCP-to-GCP endpoint transfers.
• Endpoints and Mapped Collections are "connected" to this subscription group to show they are part of our subscription.
• Endpoints, Collections, and Groups can be "Verified" to signal to users they are officially related to our subscription.

3. RC-Admins

• This group is intended to allow specific users to administer endpoints, storage gateways, and mapped collections.

Restructuring proposal:

• University of Alabama at Birmingham (HA)
  • RC Administrators
    • Team Leads, Matt, Clyde
  • RC Activity Managers
  • RC Activity Monitors
    • Facilitation Team

Globus System State

The following are intended to be the state of each entity. The actual procedures require some level of discipline or scripting when creating new entities, or modification for existing entities, to achieve the desired state.

Endpoints

Adding the following roles to each Endpoint will enable the Facilitation Team to more quickly and accurately diagnose Globus transfer issues.

• Add Roles
  • Administrator: RC Administrators group
  • Activity Manager: RC Activity Managers group
  • Activity Monitor: RC Activity Monitors group

Restrict Guest Collection Creation

See #717

Set Base Path

UAB RCS Posix BASE_PATH should be set to / at creation time. It cannot be changed after creation.