GT 3.9.4 WS MDS Aggregator: User's Guide

Introduction
Command-line tools
Graphical user interfaces
Troubleshooting

Introduction

[End user-friendly introduction AND references to the Toolkit-level User's Guide where they can find general end user-oriented information]

Command-line tools

Command-line tool `mds-servicegroup-add` for WS MDS Aggregator

Tool description

mds-servicegroup-add creates a set of registrations to a WS-ServiceGroup and periodically renews those registrations. It is intended primarily for registering grid resources to MDS services such as the index and trigger services.

Registrations are defined in an XML configuration file, which is documented in the aggregator admin guide.

Command syntax

   mds-servicegroup-add -s http://foo [options] config.xml

Options and Arguments

`-s http://foo`	This dummy option is required but ignored. All end point references used by `mds-servicegroup-add` are read from the configuration file, not the command line.
`-a`	By default, `mds-servicegroup-add` will attempt to make an authenticated connection to each service group. This option is used to specify anonymous connections (and to prevent `mds-servicegroup-add` from failing if you don't have a valid Grid credential).
config.xml	the configuration file

The other standard toolkit options [TODO -- link to standard options page] are also supported.

Limitations

It is necessary for the tool to continue to run in order for the registrations that it maintains to be kept alive, as registrations will otherwise time out.

Graphical user interfaces

There is no GUI specifically for the aggregator. The release contains a tech preview of WebMDS which can be used to display monitoring information in a web browser. Specifically, it can be directed at services based on the aggregator to display information about resources registered to the aggregator.

Troubleshooting

[user-friendly help on common problems they may encounter]