Inca 2.01 production release now available

We are pleased to announce that the Inca 2.01 production release is now
available on the Inca web site at:

http://inca.sdsc.edu/www/releases/2.01release.html

The 2.01 production release provides substantial improvements over Inca 1
with respect to security, installation and maintenance, storage capabilities,
and data display. It provides the following new features:

• Centralized configuration and a new GUI tool called incat that
  automatically deploys Inca clients and reporters to Grid resources. Incat
  allows an Inca deployment to easily adapt to new resources and testing
  requirements.
• Reporter repositories that consist of reporters, required packages and
  libraries, and a catalog file. Repository contents are accessible using a URL
  and can be shared across multiple Inca deployments.
• Full report archiving so that test result history (especially any error
  messages) can be used to understand the behavior of services and Grids over
  time.
• Comparison of Inca reports to a specification (e.g., version requirement)
  that optionally trigger email notification.
• SSL communication between Inca components.
• Automatic restart of Inca resource clients if client failure is detected
  (e.g. due to a system restart).
• Short-term proxy retrieval from a MyProxy server for Inca reporters that
  require GSI credentials and proxy destruction after reporter completion .
  Long-term proxy credentials on resources are no longer required.
• Inca reporter system usage profiling and logging to allow administrators
  to evaluate the system impact of testing on resources.
• Flexible data display in Inca Web status pages using JSP and XSL.

Please email inca@sdsc.edu with any feedback, questions, or problems
related to the release or for help in getting started with Inca on your
Grid.

Future enhancements for Inca include:

• Graphs and summary statistics to better understand Grid reliability and
  performance data
• Limited system administrators privileges for re-running reporters and
  accepting configuration changes
• Detection and recovery from Inca server failures
• Application test suite incorporation into existing Inca deployments
• Knowledge base feature that suggests solutions for detected
  problems

Thank you,

The Inca Team