On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Henry Nebrensky wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Mario David wrote:
>
> In reverse order:
>
> Many mails and very few answers (or none)....
>
> > finally and most important
> > What kind of information is expected from the present
> > setup/config of R-GMA in this release
> ...
> > is it some kind of monitoring??
> > is it used for monitoring for CMS???
>
> Steve Fisher will probably disagree, but I personally view R-GMA simply as
> a data transport infrastructure or service: it's something that lets you
> move information around the Grid. It's not a point to point protocol like
> HTTP, instead data is published into an R-GMA MON box by a producer, and
> all relevant info can be pulled out from another R-GMA MON box by a
> consumer.
>
> How the data gets from one to the other is irrelevant to its users, but
> sysadmins get to worry about MON boxes, information catalogues, etc.
In fact Steve Fisher agrees!
> Examples of information that might be moved through R-GMA include
> site status: state of queues and such could go through R-GMA
> instead of MDS
> This requires a working MON box and API at the CE,and something
> running at the CE to gather the information and publish it.
>
> accounting info (see recent correspondence): again this requires a
> working MON box and API at the CE ,and something running at the CE to
> gather the count the beans and publish the result.
>
> applications monitoring, so that users can follow what their jobs
> are doing CMS is evaluating this, some other experiments have at least
> considered it. This requires a working MON box and API at the
> WN...
>
> So R-GMA is VO-neutral - it's there for everybody.
This is true currently. In the future each VO will have its own name space
and authorization rules.
Steve
>
> > I have "null" for
> > http://se01.lip.pt:8080/R-GMA/DBProducerServlet
> ...
> You need http://se01.lip.pt:8080/R-GMA/DBProducerServlet/getStatus
> or getNewStatusinstead. They come out OK. Also try
> /opt/edg/sbin/test/edg-rgma-check
>
> >I have the DB and tables in MySQL on my MON box
> >which is the SE, but all of them are empty
> >this corresponds to the ArchiverServlet
>
> There may not have been anything to actually archive back when you wrote.
>
> > I have from my LCFGng
> >
> > +rgma.SePresent yes
> > +rgma.Gin yes
> > +rgma.ServiceStatus yes
> >
> > and checked to be correctly configured in the se01.lip.pt
> > of course SiteInfo comes from my GIIS (ce01.lip.pt)
> > so its correctly set to "no" in the se01
> > Am I making a big confusion out of this???
>
> I think this is about configuring the provider that publishes into R-GMA,
> rather than configuring R-GMA itself.
>
> I've not got round to testing your site yet; I will be back on track next
> week, so watch out, all!
>
> HTH
>
> Henry
>
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