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Hi Richard,

Did you consider that this may be an artifact of other things (YAIM
configuration settings, for example) changing? It's possible that the
mapping is correlated with the last time the BDIIs were each
reconfigured. (RAL-LCG2 is certainly a valid, old, default.)

Sam

On 14 September 2010 13:53, Hellier, Richard (STFC,RAL,ESC)
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi
>
>
>
> While upgrading the RAL top-level BDIIs last week, I spotted a few
> inconsistencies (including the “Latitude Change”
> http://www.gridpp.rl.ac.uk/blog/2010/09/14/ral-tier1-takes-unexpected-excursion-to-suffolk/).
>
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>
> The main thing I noticed was that “opinion is divided” between the UK Tier2s
> on how to refer to the Tier1. According to:
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> http://goc.grid.sinica.edu.tw/gocwiki/How_to_publish_my_site_information
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> (link given to me in a GGUS ticket when I queried this), the parameter
> WLCG_PARENT should be set to UK-T1-RAL whereas some sites are using
> RAL-LCG2.
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> Here’s the state of play:
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> EFDA-JET, RAL-LCG2
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> UKI-LT2-Brunel, RAL-LCG2
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> UKI-LT2-IC-HEP, UK-T1-RAL
>
> UKI-LT2-QMUL, UK-T1-RAL
>
> UKI-LT2-RHUL, UK-T1-RAL
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> UKI-LT2-UCL-HEP, UK-T1-RAL
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> UKI-NORTHGRID-LANCS-HEP, RAL-LCG2
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> UKI-NORTHGRID-LIV-HEP, RAL-LCG2
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> UKI-NORTHGRID-MAN-HEP, RAL-LCG2
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> UKI-NORTHGRID-SHEF-HEP, RAL-LCG2
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> UKI-SCOTGRID-DURHAM, RAL-LCG2
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> UKI-SCOTGRID-ECDF, RAL-LCG2
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> UKI-SCOTGRID-GLASGOW, UK-T1-RAL
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> UKI-SOUTHGRID-BHAM-HEP, RAL-LCG2
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> UKI-SOUTHGRID-BRIS-HEP, RAL-LCG2
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> UKI-SOUTHGRID-CAM-HEP, RAL-LCG2
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> UKI-SOUTHGRID-OX-HEP, RAL-LCG2
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> UKI-SOUTHGRID-RALPP, UK-T1-RAL
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> AFAIK, nothing is broken by the variation but might as well be tidied up
> next time the BDII config is being updated.
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> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Richard.
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>
>
> PS: The same is true of how Tier1 sites refer to CERN but that’s another
> story ...