ok thanks.
On 18/06/2015 13:58, Sam Skipsey wrote:
> Hi Alessandra,
>
> Two brief comments, inline.
>
> On 18 June 2015 at 13:50, Alessandra Forti <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> apologies for this delay. I distilled few points about the BDII to report to
>> the WLCG Ops Coordination
>>
>> *) Information System (IS) is considered useful for service discovery, used
>> for minor VOs managers and users (especially lcg-infosites) and for some
>> migration camapaigns. It will not go away if LHC VOs decide not to use it
>> anymore but it will reduce the load of tickets.
>> *) Some people have multiple roles as sys admins and smaller VOs managers
>> so they are both consumers and providers.
>> *) IS contains way too much information that is not used. Static and dynamic
>> information should be separated but it is useful to have one place to
>> queuery
>> *) DPM storage IS not as bad as the CEs and is used by several tools
> (storage in general, not just DPM - SE publishing, really)
>
>> *) Related to the above it is not clear why do we are still supporting two
>> schemas it makes it more difficult to support and there are periodic tickets
>> for problems with one or the other
>> *) Filling the schema(s) without YAIM is a pain although that maybe a one
>> off if done with another tool it is labour intensive due to the size of the
>> schema
>> *) Code is ill documented and difficult to understand which parts fill
>> the ldif
>> *) Features like subclusters don't work in Glue 1.3 don't work
> Or rather, can't be used because nothing actually understands them, I
> think. (as well as being poorly thought out as a solution)
>
>> *) Mixed content a port for service discovery not the same as HS06 average
>> value for the cluster used for accounting should be separated
>> *) Not clear with future technologies such as cloud if some of the dynamic
>> entries we publish still make sense
>>
>> Let me know if you have any other comment in the next hour.
>>
>> cheers
>> alessandra
>>
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