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On Thu, 12 May 2005, Burke, S (Stephen) wrote:

> LHC Computer Grid - Rollout 
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Joseph said:
> > If my SE is a dcache then is there a predetermined value for 
> > the SE_TYPE parameter in the site-info.def file?

It must be set to:

    srm_v1

> If it's the thing which is usually "disk" for classic SEs I think it
> should be "srm_v1" for dcache, but in fact it looks like people are just
> putting "srm":
> 
> ldapsearch -x -h lcgbdii02.gridpp.rl.ac.uk -p 2170 -b o=grid | grep -i
> setype | sort | uniq -c
>     104 GlueSEType: disk
>       1 GlueSEType: gsiftp
>      10 GlueSEType: srm

Despite appearances, the GlueSEType is _not_ used.

Instead, the type is derived from the GlueSEName, which must be of the form:

    SITE_NAME:SE_TYPE

I suppose this is for historical reasons?