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On 18/06/2015 13:50, Alessandra Forti 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
> *) 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
> *) 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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