[glue-wg] OSG dropping GLUE?

[Maria Alandes Pradillo]

Dear Paul,

Thanks a lot for reporting. I´m also reporting about this at tomorrow´s GDB. If USCMS sites start to disappear from the BDII, we won´t have the whole WLCG picture anymore in the BDII. This mainly affects operational use cases where we use the BDII information to follow up on certain issues. I guess for CMS is fine to stop using the BDII and this is the reason why USCMS sites are dropping it. 

Let´s see if there are other reactions tomorrow.

Regards,
Maria

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Millar [mailto:paul.millar at desy.de]
> Sent: 08 June 2015 20:33
> To: Maria Alandes Pradillo; Maarten Litmaath
> Cc: glue-wg at ogf.org
> Subject: Re: [glue-wg] OSG dropping GLUE?
> 
> Hi Maria (and Maarten, and others)
> 
> On 12/05/15 09:36, Maria Alandes Pradillo wrote:
> [...]
> > Having said that, we are in touch with OSG so that any possible plan
> > to deprecate the BDII on their side is properly announced and planned,
> > so users know what to expect from the Information System.
> 
> I just got the following from Brian via the GGUS ticket #113580:
> 
>  > To be clear - OSG is in the process of deprecating and removing the  > BDII
> (that is, having sites no longer show up in the WLCG BDII), in  > conjunction with
> our USCMS and USATLAS stakeholders.  This has been a  > multi-year process to
> remove the BDII requirement from various  > monitoring, validation, job
> submission, transfer and accounting  > systems.
>  >
>  > This is starting to show externally-visible differences after multiple  > years of
> effort.  The USCMS side completed first and we turned-down  > the first USCMS
> Tier-2 site last week.  More will follow as USCMS  > coordinates internally.  It's
> still an ongoing effort within USATLAS  > and we will run the BDII service for as
> long as a stakeholder needs  > it.
>  >
>  > [...]
> 
> So, it looks like USCMS at least are currently in the process of switching off sites,
> so they will disappear from the info-system.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Paul.