Burke, S (Stephen) wrote:
> LHC Computer Grid - Rollout
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>>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Maarten Litmaath said:
>>Yes, but for this particular problem it may be better to do
>>the following:
>>if you have your own RB, you should also have your own MyProxy server,
>>possibly (preferrably?) running on the RB itself.
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> But from a user's point of view, how do you known which myproxy server(s) go
You would consult the GOC DB.
> with a given broker? Even worse, you can define a list of brokers in the UI
> config files and submission will fall back if the first one is down, but
> that isn't a lot of use if the brokers all need different myproxies. Even if
> you upload your proxy to several, as far as I know the JDL only supports
> one.
Yes, that is an issue indeed. We may need to extend the JDL there.
I do not think we can let the MyProxy server configuration automatically
pick up new RBs as they come online, for reasons of security: no site
would want to trust any random site's RB that happens to pop up in the
information system...
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