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Consuming Data From MDS 2.2

Since MDS uses OpenLDAP to host the directory of Grid resource information, MDS data can be consumed via any mechanism that consumes data from the OpenLDAP product, including industry standard LDAP applications.

Client GUI browser applications

• Java LDAP Browser [ screen shot ]
• for Linux
• for Windows [ screen shot ]
• List of LDAP browsers

Web Interfaces

There are a number of initiatives underway to create generic LDAP to web interfaces:

• LDAPexplorer
  • The Globus VO-Index is has implemented this interface
  • NorduGrid has implemented this interface
• LDAP Web Xplorer
• John's LDAP Web Interface

Custom applications (eg Resource Broker)

• C api [ spec ]
• Java LDAP

Other interesting ways of getting at MDS data

• Access MDS via Pine

Command line interfaces

See: MDS users guide (pdf)

• grid-info-search
• ldapsearch

New: there is an MDS GIIS that indexes key Virtual Organizations, and is available for anyone to query. Try out one of these interfaces on the public GIIS, or use the web interface.