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@desy.de] Sent: 08 June 2015 20:33 To: Maria Alandes Pradillo; Maarten Litmaath Cc: glue-wg@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.
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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.