Configuration task: status report
Design is the same since the beginning of WP4.
Server side
Status:
- PAN stable since September. Available in production since October
- XML schema finalised in July. Hasn’t changed since.
- CDB: bunch of libraries and programs. Released in November.
Some features missing:
- Notification out of the CDB. Michel is working on it. Hopefully for January.
- MD-5 checksum
- Interfaces: No command line interface. But one could reuse some of the automatic testing scripts that uses the API.
- GUI? FIO has developed a nice GUI on top of the CDB API. Will be used as a starting point. Uses SOAP for remote invocation to the CDB API (which is local to the CDB)
Wish list:
- Extensions to the PAN language. Missing things will be identified once it is used.
- Context (a’la LCFG). Possible by multiplexing. Missing things on the client side.
- Security: no security inside the software itself. Will use what rest of WP4 would use: gridification subsystem
- Server module behind the CDB that exports data to LDAP and/or SQL databases. Would provide read-only view of the LLD information.
Client side
Satus:
- Fetch: being developed. Prototype by end of December. Production version by end of January.
- Cache: specification almost finished. New version will be out this week (hopefully)
- Purge: ready
- NVA API: work has started. Finished by late January or beginning of February.
- Notification daemon, cron, boot-time: trigger the fetch
Wish list:
- NVA API in other languages? C? Is it needed?
- Currently all data is public readable. Encryption by customer. Private data would require a lot of work.