> -----Original Message-----
> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB-
>
> After a discussion in today Thursday phone meeting we have decided
> the following:
>
> 1) If you have been passing the SAM tests and are happy with your
> current setup then no changes will be made to effect your site.
> 2) If you have been failing (getting a warning) on the SAM tests I
> will switch you over to having the RAL Tier 1 as your primary backup.
>
This seems to me to be completely the wrong approach. If you want to
switch everyone to RAL because you think that's going to be a
technically
better solution then that's fair enough, but it doesn't make sense to
base any part of the decision based on the test results when they're
essentially random.
The problem with the tests is that you're testing something without
ever having asked the sites to set it up the way you wanted. It's
not a surprise at that point that some things are not set up the
way you wanted.
I don't have any strong views on whether it's better to use Tier 2
to Tier 2 failover, or have everyone drop back to RAL, but it does
seem silly to have a mixture with an individual site's behavior
determined this way.
Ewan
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