Changing the Site BDII

Moving the Site BDII to another machine

1. Ensure the new Site BDII is working fine and publishing all the necessary site information

   • See MAN01 for general information about how to configure a Site BDII. In particular, remember that the Site BDII configuration must include the BDII node itself.

2. Put the old Site BDII in scheduled downtime in the Configuration Database for a couple of hours

3. Register the new service in the Configuration Database by adding a new Service Endpoint:

   • select Site BDII in Service Type field
   • fill in at least the hostname
   • select Y for production and monitoring, N for beta service field

4. Properly modify the GIIS URL field with the new SITE-BDII ldap URL

   • Note that the site name in the GIIS URL is case-sensitive

5. Mark the old Site BDII as not production and turn off its monitoring

6. Top BDIIs updates their sites list every hour so the new Site BDII should be published in less than an hour; instead Nagios updates the monitored hosts every 3 hours

7. When the new Site BDII is appeared on Nagios and the old one is disappeared, turn off the old Site BDII and remove it from the Configuration Database

Turning off a Site BDII co-hosted with other services

1. Stop and remove the service

   service bdii stop
   yum remove glite-BDII glite-yaim-bdii
   

2. Delete some info-providers and ldif file ( /opt/glite/etc/gip/ldif/stub-site.ldif, /opt/glite/etc/gip/site-urls.conf, /opt/glite/etc/gip/provider/glite-info-provider-site, /opt/glite/etc/gip/provider/glite-info-provider-service-bdii-site-wrapper, /opt/glite/etc/gip/ldif/glite-info-site.ldif)

3. Reconfigure with yaim without specifying the BDII_site profile