Site admins,
> To yaim, or not to yaim: that is the question:
> Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
> The slings and arrows of outrageous shell scripts,
> Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
> And by opposing end them with puppet.
First, not everyone uses Yaim to configure their servers - other
processes can have good results. But yaim is a sort of baseline,
as it lays out a rough standard for the config files.
Second, I'm making a free process at Liverpool to tie a site's
VOMS records to the CIC portal XML (it's called VomsSnooper). As
we do use Yaim to configure our systems, I focused my
efforts in making a pristine set of VOMS records for our
site-info.def/vo.d data. Quite a bit of cruft came out during
that process, I can tell you. The result is that our site and the
"GridPP Approved VO" list is now up to date regarding VOMS
records, see https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/GridPP_approved_VOs
The upshot is that I am now looking for test data to check that
the process works in the general case, not just the specific one at
Liverpool, i.e. I need volunteers that (a) use yaim, (b) can send
me their site-info.def/vo.d data in a tar ball.
Obviously, any findings would be strictly confidential, and files
should be stripped of sensitive strings first - I'm only interested in
the public VO/VOMS fields anyway.
That's all it amounts to. If you could help in this campaign, please
reply (either here or personally) and let me know - we can then
arrange a transfer of data - the files are not large.
Many thanks in advance for all your help. I also have some ideas
on how to verify LSC data direct from the XML but that hasn't come
to fruition yet.
Cheers,
Steve Jones
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System Administrator office: 220
High Energy Physics Division tel (int): 42334
Oliver Lodge Laboratory tel (ext): +44 (0)151 794 2334
University of Liverpool http://www.liv.ac.uk/physics/hep/
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