The Allocation Request Management System (ARMS) is a software system for managing requests for the allocation of RDSI storage. It captures the information in a request for storage, tracks that request through the process of assessing and (if approved) the provisioning storage for it.
The Research Data Storage Infrastructure (RDSI) is a project to increase the sharing and re-use of research related data in Australia. The project will be resliased through the creation and development of data stroage infrastructure accessed through a common infrastructure layer. For more information about RDSI, please see http://www.rdsi.edu.au.
ARMS manages requests for allocations and not requests for collections. It is possible to consider a set of collections as a collection in its own right. So ARMS could be considered as a system that deals with such aggregation-collections, but it does not identify collections that are not aggregation-collections. The identification of non-aggregation collection currently is out of scope.
ARMS manages requests for allocations and not actual allocations. A request for a resource is not the same as the resource itself. For requests being processed or have been rejected, there is no corresponding storage allocation. For approved requests, there will be a corresponding storage allocation (subject to provisioning activities being performed outside of ARMS). ARMS can be used in conjunction with an allocation management solution, but ARMS itself is not an allocation management solution. A request is related to, but not the same thing as a allocation.
ARMS is intended to help nodes manage the recording, assessment, provisioning and reporting processes.
ARMS is a software system that has to be used in conjunction with processes and systems (both manual and automated) external to ARMS.
- doc - documentation
- design - contains the mockups developed for the forms
- src - contains the source code
- support - provides support scripts for deployment
- test - test plan
All code is licensed under GPLv2 - see the LICENSE file for more details.
General enquiries about ARMS should be directed to RDSI.
Technical enquiries about ARMS should be directed to QCIF.