Transcript Web Services for SCD

Web Services and SCD
Greg McArthur
DIG/SCD
Talking Points
• Site Philosophy
• Site Hardware
• SCD web services
– a user-centric site
• Management Issues
• Future plans
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Site Philosophy
• Our web site is “window into SCD”
• Provides access to:
– resource information
• MSS, computers, data holdings, visualization
– documentation, training & technical
consulting
– internal divisional/admin. information
• Overarching Goal: A User-centric site
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Server Hits
Average
SCD=63.6K/mo
Oct ‘98 - Sept ‘99
NCAR=12.5K/mo
90,000
NCAR
SCD
80,000
70,000
No. of Hits
60,000
50,000
40,000
30,000
20,000
10,000
0
Oct-98
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Nov-98
Dec-98
Jan-99
Feb-99
Mar-99
Apr-99
Month
May-99
Jun-99
Jul-99
Aug-99
Sep-99
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Server Hits
• Servers are busy! These 2 web
site(s) are being visited at the rate
of nearly 1x10+E6 hits for the past 12
months.
• Expect growth in hits due to
expanded use of web in general
• Time to augment and expand server
hardware
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New Site Architecture
External Servers
Internal Servers
(webx.ucar.edu)
(web.ucar.edu)
WebX
SUN250
H
A
Web
SUN250
90+Gbytes
shared cache
S
WebY
Web
SUN250
SUN450
“high availability” solution
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[Search Engine, Stats Engine]
[HTTPD, interactive Logons]
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Enhanced Web Services
• User-centric focus for site:
– Improved user access to information,
help, and contact with division personnel.
– Emphasis on being able to quickly locate
what they need to get their work done.
– New, multi-level navigational tools &
better search engine capabilities.
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New
SCD
Home
Page
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Enhanced Web Services
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Interactive job submission/retrieval
Data set access (MSS, DSS)
User-driven FAQs
Chat rooms
MySCD
Interactive Visualizations
Web-based education & training
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Enhanced Web Services
• Intranet (SCD) features
– administrative support
– staff-only items/sites
(travel, purchasing, etc.)
• Access to DBS databases
– resource accounting, allocations, etc
• Search engine
• Statistics engine
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Management Issues
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Site management/content -- DIG
Hardware Admin -- DSG
Server Software -- Vislab
New ITC WEG FTE -- Vislab
DIG FTE replacement -- DIG
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Current Plans
• Using Dreamweaver -- visual editing/management
• Greater emphasis on usability
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search paths simplified (at sub-directories)
keyword guidelines for search engine
common sense URL naming schemes
placement of cookies in browser
• Total in-house control over site
content, images, formatting, etc.
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Near Future Plans (con’t)
• An integrated approach to building
Teraweb-like interfaces
• Collaboration UCAR/WEG -SCD/DIG/Vislab = enhance user
support and satisfaction
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Futures
• Continue to track web-based
technologies as they mature
• Use feedback to improve site for our
users
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Questions?
Answers!