Hello Maarten, Thanks for the warning! I will try to get this static info into the other BDII as well. BTW isn't it strange that a CE publishes information that is needed by the SE? Apparently you cannot have a standalone SE at all. Kind regards, Fokke LHC Computer Grid - Rollout wrote: > On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Fokke Dijkstra wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> Next week we will upgrade our cluster to LCG-2.4.0. At this > point in time we will also upgrade from RedHat 7.3 to > Scientific Linux 3.0.4. This means that the upgrade will be a > lot of work, and we have planned the whole week (April 25-29) for it. >> >> During the upgrade we hope to keep downtimes as short as > possible. To prevent loss of jobs we need to shutdown the > queues on the CE however. >> >> The upgrade will not involve the SE teras.sara.nl and the RLS >> mu5.matrix.sara.nl! >> >> Because the data of these services is published on the CE > which will go down, we have installed a separate BDII on the > RLS server. >> During the upgrade we may move the information about > certain services to this BDII to prevent the loss of this > information. >> So now SARA has the following BDIIs with site information: >> >> # SARA-LCG2 >> ldap://giis.matrix.sara.nl:2170/mds-vo-name=saralcg2,o=grid # >> SARA-RLS ldap://rls.matrix.sara.nl:2170/mds-vo-name=sararls,o=grid >> >> Note, that in order to have this information available to > you, the new BDII should be included in the top BDII you use. > The "all sites" list currently has this BDII, so most sites > should be OK. >> >> I'm not sure about experiment specific BDIIs though. So it > may be wise to check this if you need to access data stored > at the teras SE. > > You need to ensure that the GlueCESEBindSEUniqueID DNs remain > published during the upgrade, otherwise the lcg-* tools > cannot use your SE. For example: > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------- > # teras.sara.nl, > mu6.matrix.sara.nl:2119/jobmanager-pbs-atlas, saralcg2, grid > dn: > GlueCESEBindSEUniqueID=teras.sara.nl,GlueCESEBindGroupCEUnique > ID=mu6.matri > x.sara.nl:2119/jobmanager-pbs-atlas,mds-vo-name=saralcg2,o=grid > objectClass: GlueGeneralTop objectClass: GlueCESEBind > objectClass: GlueSchemaVersion > GlueCESEBindCEAccesspoint: /home > GlueCESEBindCEUniqueID: mu6.matrix.sara.nl:2119/jobmanager-pbs-atlas > GlueCESEBindSEUniqueID: teras.sara.nl > GlueSchemaVersionMajor: 1 > GlueSchemaVersionMinor: 1 > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------- > > These entries normally come from the CE, but since they are > static, any BDII can publish them. -------- Fokke Dijkstra High Performance Computing SARA - Reken- en Netwerkdiensten http://www.sara.nl Tel. +31 20 592 8004 Fax. +31 20 668 3167