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Manage resources utilization: In this use-case, the administrator performs
monitoring and performance-tuning tasks to make sure that the grid facility is
working in an optimized way. Typical activities that make part of these tasks
are: checking activities logging, analyzing usage history, checking average
system load, and setting caching parameters, among others.
Manage security and authentication: This use-case includes all the
security-related issues about administrating the grid, such as managing user
accounts, defining security policies, configuring network software and
hardware components, and so on.
7.3 Case design
There are a number of ways in which a data-grid may be designed to fulfill ...