thank you for final clarification, Jeremy
On 16 Jun 2011, at 13:20, Jeremy Coles wrote:
> Hi Elena/All
>
> The response from the developers is pretty much in line with Mingchao's understanding:
>
> "If the Argus server you've installed is for your site only, then no port need to be opened to the outside world.
>
> Only CREAM CE or glexec+LCMAPS Argus PEP plugin WN should be able to connect to the Argus server, and normally these services are all local to your site.
>
> The Argus server can be configured to pull-down top level banning lists from other Argus servers, but this normally doesn't require the firewall to be opened (outbound connection)."
>
> Jeremy
>
>
> On 16 Jun 2011, at 12:43, Elena Korolkova wrote:
>
>> thanks, Jeremy
>> On 16 Jun 2011, at 12:42, Jeremy Coles wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Elena
>>>
>>> We do not have a definitive answer and the information here https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/EGEE/AuthorizationFramework does not answer it either but it does suggest "Argus support (developer, site administrator) questions can be sent directly to the [log in to unmask] mailing list" so I will do that next.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jeremy
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 16 Jun 2011, at 12:11, Ewan MacMahon wrote:
>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB-
>>>>> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Christopher J. Walker
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I thought one of the points of ARGUS was that it had the ability for the
>>>>> VO or security team who are offsite) to ban users without waiting for the
>>>>> site admin to react. Clearly this would need access from offsite.
>>>>>
>>>> Not necessarily. I'd rather assume that it would involve the argus
>>>> server pulling from central ban list(s), not remote pushes of
>>>> configuration onto the argus server.
>>>>
>>>> Ewan
>>
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