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Thinking Outside the Nest Utilizing Enterprise Resources with Condor

Discover how The Hartford leverages Condor's capabilities in this strategic event. Learn about their use cases, business drivers, and future strategies for evolving enterprise configurations management. Explore possible hooks, business results, and insights shared during the Condor Week 2006.

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Thinking Outside the Nest Utilizing Enterprise Resources with Condor

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  1. Thinking Outside the NestUtilizing Enterprise Resources with Condor Bob Nordlund The Hartford Condor Week 2006

  2. About The Hartford • Founded in 1810 • Quarter-trillion dollars under management • Fortune 100 • 30,000 employees • Happily using Condor for last 3 ½ years • >3000 VM dedicated Condor pool • >1000 VM workstation pool, and growing • Almost entirely Windows Condor Week 2006

  3. Objective Expose interfaces to Condor to facilitate the integration of enterprise resources. Condor Week 2006

  4. Business Drivers • Increasing Dependence on Condor • Business Continuity Planning • Survival Critical • Mission Critical • Business Essential • Disaster Recovery • Leverage Existing Infrastructure Investments • Many tools in use that facilitate cross data center operation • Don’t want to re-invent the wheel Condor Week 2006

  5. Strategy Create hooks in strategic locations in the Condor daemons to allow its out-of-the-box behaviors to be modified by custom code. • Carefully identify hook locations • Non-invasive • Non-destabilizing • Identify ‘big hitters’ • Common need • Phased approach • Carefully piloted • Identify implementers Condor Week 2006

  6. Example:Enterprise Configuration Management • Utilize Centralized Storage (RDBMS on SAN) • Scalable (>30,000 Computers) • Highly Available (24x7x365) • DR Capable (Multiple Data Centers) • Support for Change Control/Versioning • Reporting/Auditing (SOX) • Manageable and Extensible • Supportable (Standard Tools and Technologies) Condor Week 2006

  7. Example (cont.):Enterprise Configuration Management (What we’d like to avoid…) Collector Negotiator Schedulers condor_config Execute Nodes Condor Week 2006

  8. Example (cont.):Enterprise Configuration Management Management Tools Application Server Farm Multiple Datacenter Collector WebLogic HTTP JDBC HTTP Oracle Negotiator F5 WebLogic F5 Schedulers Redundant SAN-Connected Sun F15K WebLogic Redundant Load Balancers Execute Nodes Condor Week 2006

  9. Possible Hooks • Job Events • OnStart • OnComplete • OnFailure • Ping • Machine Events • OnAppear • OnDisappear • OnClaimed • Daemon Events • OnCore (Should never happen) • OnReconfig • Data Storage • GetConfig • LogEvent • External Queue Condor Week 2006

  10. Bottom Line • Condor should evolve towards a framework architecture exposing interfaces for non-core functionality and providing reference implementations for default behavior. • This would enable a secondary source of innovation by allowing external parties to participate in extending Condor’s capabilities with no impact to the core. Condor Week 2006

  11. Thank You Condor Week 2006

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