GridPP DPM toolkit v1.2.0-1 released

I have made a new release (v1.2.0-1) of the GridPP DPM admin toolkit. This adds in a new tool written by Michel Jouvin (GRIF, France) called "dpm-listspaces". Michel's aim with this new tool is that it can be used as a replacement for both dpm-qryconf and dpm-getspacemd. It is Michel's intention to get this into the main release of DPM, but as an interim solution I have included it in the toolkit. You can find installation instructions at the above link.

It should be noted that this release has a dependency on DPM-interfaces >= 1.6.11-4 which hasn't been released yet. The reason for this is that the very latest version of the DPM python API is required for dpm-listspaces to work. If you want to have a look, DPM-interfaces v1.6.11-4 can be found in the ETICS repo here. This is compatible with v1.6.10 of DPM (I've installed it at Edinburgh).

Finally, dpm-listspaces doubles up as the new GIP for DPM. It has a --gip option which prints out the appropriate bit of LDIF conforming to GLUE 1.3. You don't have to worry about this just now, I'll talk more about it at a later date.

Slightly Modified DPM GIP Plugin

The last version of the DPM GIP plugin had a few minor bugs:

1. The "--si" flag had been lost somewhere.
2. DNS style VOs were not handled properly (e.g., supernemo.vo.eu-egee.org).

There's a new version which corrects these little problems: http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~graeme/scripts/packages/lcg-info-dynamic-dpm-2.2-2.noarch.rpm.

Now submitted as a patch in Savannah.

Optimised DPM GIP Plugin

Lana Abadie noticed that my DPM GIP plugin was rather inefficient (table joins are expensive!), and sent a couple of options for improving the SQL query. I implemented them in the plugin and it speeded up by a factor of 10.

I have produced a new RPM with the optimised query, which is available here: http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~graeme/scripts/packages/lcg-info-dynamic-dpm-2.2-1.noarch.rpm.

I am running this already at Glasgow and I would recommend it for anyone with a large DPM.

N.B. It is compatible with DPM 1.6.3 and 1.6.5, but remember to modify the /opt/lcg/var/gip/plugin/lcg-info-dynamic-se wrapper to run /opt/lcg/libexec/lcg-info-dynamic-dpm instead of /opt/lcg/libexec/lcg-info-dynamic-dpm-beta.