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Temporary characteristics

All files are currently owner by davidg, but ownership should be transferred to a `grid admin' account that is also part of the ices group. This account is prevents to Globus install base and information services from being tampered with. This new account should under no circumstance be used to run the Gatekeeper!



The microgrid consists of: bilbo (GIIS), bombur, triplex, triomf (currently not active).



The following patches were applied to the Globus 1.1.3 system:



On some hosts a simple perl-based daemon (in.gsd) will answer quesries about the current load and utilisation of the system. It will also report on the status of a potential Gatekeeper. The daemon listens on port 52493. A graphical user interface (gsm-0.1) will visualise the results. The daemon is liable to denial-of-service attacks (it can be killed remotely), but is otherwise secure: it cannot be lured into doing any more than printing the system load. It is not part of the Globus toolkit and used for monitoring the microgrid testbed only.


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David Groep
2001-01-25