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The Index Service collects monitoring and discovery information from Grid resources, and publishes it in a single location; generally, it is expected that a virtual organization will deploy one or more index services which will collect data on all of the Grid resources available within that virtual organization.
Features new in release 4.2.0
The Index Service now supports, in addition to queries made using the default XPath dialect, the new TargetedXPath dialect, which enables users to specify their own namespace mappings in queries.
Loop detection (preventing an index server from registering to itself, or two from registering to each other) has been improved somewhat since 4.0.x.
- Bug 3951: Service must release all of its resources on deactivation
- Bug 2667: MDS index downstream registrations uses upstream config
- Bug 2409: Index needing user proxy after TLS merge
- Bug 2131: default aggregator service entry EPRs point to the wrong service
- Bug 2104: flatten schema
- Bug 1885: Relative path to ganglia_to_glue.xslt in GangliaGLUE service
- 2141: fixable warn at index startup
- 2925: No deserializer for AggregatorContent
- All fixed Index Service bugs and enhancement requests.
The following problems and limitations are known to exist for WS MDS Index Service at the time of the 4.2.0 release:
Tested Platforms for WS-MDS Index Service:
- Linux on i386
- Windows XP
Tested containers for WS-MDS Index Service:
- Java WS Core container
- Tomcat 5.0.28
Protocol changes since GT version 4.0.x
- Because of the Java WS Core protocol upgrades, this version is not compatible with Globus Toolkit 4.0.x services. See the Java WS Core Release Notes for more details.
API changes since GT version 4.0.x
- None.
Schema changes since GT version 4.0.x
- The Index Service is affected by the schema changes made as part of the Java WS Core protocol upgrades. See the Java WS Core Release Notes for more details.
Associated standards for WS MDS Index:
- WS-ResourceProperties (WSRF-RP)
- WS-ResourceLifetime (WSRF-RL)
- WS-ServiceGroup (WSRF-SG)
- WS-BaseFaults (WSRF-BF)
- WS-BaseNotification
- WS-Topics
See Index Servicefor more information about this component.