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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