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.
| The following guides are available for this component: | |
| WS MDS Key Concepts | For important general concepts. [pdf] |
| WS MDS Admin Guide | For system administrators and those installing, building and deploying GT. You should already have read the Installation Guide and Quickstart. [pdf] |
| Index Service Admin Guide | Administrative information specific to the Index Service. [pdf] |
| User's Guide | Describes how end-users typically interact with this component. Be sure to also read the GT User Guide for important general information for end-users. [pdf] |
| Developer's Guide | Reference and usage scenarios for developers. [pdf] |
| Other information available for this component are: | |
| Release Notes | What's new with the 4.2.0 release for this component. [pdf] |
| Public Interface Guide | Information for all public interfaces (including APIs, commands, WSDL, etc). Please note this is a subset of information in the Developer's Guide. [pdf] |
| Quality Profile | Information about test coverage reports, etc. [pdf] |
| WS MDS Migrating Guide | Information for migrating to this version if you were using a previous version of GT. [pdf] |
| All WS MDS Index Service Guides (PDF only) | Includes all Index Service guides except Public Interfaces (which is a subset of the Developer's Guide) |