Integration with EGI Information Service

The basics of EGI Information Service are described at  link.

In general, information about a grid service is produced by a service provider and transfered into the closest BDII (LDAP) instance (typically co-allocated with the service).This procedure is significantly simplified with the help of tools offered by EMI Resource Information Service (emi-resource-information-service). Consequently, the integration of new services was limited to the provisioning of a few script and configuration files. In case of QCG-Notification, the required stuff is distributed within the package: '''qcg-ntf-egi-is-provider''', available for SL5 and SL6.

Requirements

The integration of QCG-Notification with the EGI IS is based on tools enclosed in the emi-resource-information-service metapackage (including, among others glite-info-provider-service and bdii). The packages may be obtained from the EMI repo, which should be added to the yum in prior the installation:

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ 
wget http://emisoft.web.cern.ch/emisoft/dist/EMI/3/repos/sl6/emi3-base.repo 
wget http://emisoft.web.cern.ch/emisoft/dist/EMI/3/repos/sl6/emi3-updates.repo
rpm --import http://emisoft.web.cern.ch/emisoft/dist/EMI/3/RPM-GPG-KEY-emi

yum install emi-resource-information-service

Next, it also may be needed to configure (in /etc/bdii directory) and start the bdii service (/sbin/service bdii start).

Please also check if the yum repositories for QCG packages are configured correctly:  instruction.

Installation

The installation of QCG-Notification provider for EGI IS may be done simply by installing the '''qcg-ntf-egi-is-provider''' RPM:

yum install qcg-ntf-egi-is-provider

Configuration

All the QCG EGI IS providers depend on the '''qcg-egi-is-conf''' package that is used for configuration of common data for all QCG services installed on the same resource. After the first installation of qcg-egi-is-conf, the installator will ask for configuration of the '''site-ID''':

  Installing : qcg-egi-is-conf-3.2.0-5.noarch              1/2 
The package requires initial configuration in order to be used by QCG providers. 
Run qcg-info-site-config -s <site-ID> to set appropriate data.
The list of available site-IDs can be found at https://goc.egi.eu/portal/index.php?Page_Type=Sites

According to this information, the requested data may be established with help of '''qcg-info-site-config''' command:

qcg-info-site-config -s PSNC

Currently configured site-ID may be displayed as follows:

qcg-info-site-config -d
site-ID=PSNC