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> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ewan MacMahon said:
> - There is a new WLCG Operations Coordination meeting that happens on
> the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month. That's as much as I know about
> it.
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/WLCGOpsCoordination
> - There seems to have been some discussion between WLCG and EGI
> regarding
> whether to set multiple BDIIs in the LCG_GFAL_INFOSYS variable (aka the
> BDII_LIST YAIM setting), with WLCG thinking that sounded sensible, and
> EGI apparently thinking it would be better for to just use one and try not to
> ever break it (!). Given that I think we mostly tend to use several, but all
> UK based ones, I suggest we just ignore this bit of silliness.
In fact EGI (Tiziana) advocates having multiple servers behind a DNS alias - it seems the UK is unusual in not doing it like that. I'm not sure if there's much practical difference - anyway it seems that most top BDIIs, including ours, are highly reliable now. But obviously something like the recent powercut at RAL implies you must have some kind of cross-site faiilover - did that cause problems at any UK sites?
Stephen
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