OSG Information Services Activity

Objectives and Scope

This OSG Information Services Activity evaluates existing information services deployed within the OSG and emerging information services. This activity conducts gap analysis and helps OSG make informed decisions about choosing and integrating appropriate information services.

Generic Information Provider (GIP)

The GIP provides the information services for the OSG. The basic, user-level documentation has not been generated yet.

GIP Developer Resources

• SVN repository at svn://t2.unl.edu/brian/gip (web browser access)
• Mailing List: http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=osg-gip&A=1
• MeetingMinutes (and agendas)
• Task List
• How to write a GIP Provider
  • New API documentation.
• High-level GIP Overview
  • Directory Structure of the GIP
• Determining GIP CE and VirtualOrganizations/VOInfoView
• Preparing a new release candidate.
• GIP v1.2 wishlist

GIP Integration Resources

• Installing the GIP
• Tools for testing the GIP
• Testing the dCache GIP?

GIP Site Admin Resources

• Installing the GIP - Site admins should not need to follow these separate installation instructions; they should get the latest GIP from the VDT instead.
• Installing and configuring the dCache GIP
• Information for Site Admins
• Hand-tuning your SI2K information
• Including storage element size information
• Changing the VOs you support

Older Information

Here are some links from the older revision of the page:

• Monitoring and Information Activity (MIG)?
• Draft of the Plan for OSG 0.6.0 - 0.8.0 on Information Services: OSG-IS-Plan-v0.9.2.pdf
• GlueSchemaOSGExtensions: the discussion topics for the Glue Schema v1.3 proposal.
• Sergio Andreozzi's talk on the Glue Schema 200608-Andreozzi-GLUESchema.pdf

Major updates:
-- ShaowenWang - 07 Aug 2006

-- BurtHolzman - 14 Feb 2008