GT 3.9.5 Development Release Notes for Pre-WS MDS

Component Overview

Pre-WS MDS provides a standard mechanism for publishing and discovering resource status and configuration information. It provides a uniform, flexible interface to data collected by lower-level information providers. It has a decentralized structure that allows it to scale, and it can handle static or dynamic data. A project can also restrict access to data by combining GSI (Grid Security Infrastructure) credentials and authorization features provided by MDS. Pre-WS MDS is essentially MDS 2.4 that came out with Globus Toolkit 2.4 and is based on LDAP and GRIS/GIIS protocols.

Feature Summary

Features new in release 3.9.5

  • None.

Other Supported Features

  • Please view the existing documentation about MDS 2.4 features here.

Deprecated Features

  • None.

Bug Fixes

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Known Problems

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Technology Dependencies

Pre-WS MDS depends on the following GT components:

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Pre-WS MDS depends on the following 3rd party software (all of these are installed with Pre-WS MDS):

  • OpenLDAP 2.0.22
  • OpenSSL 0.9.6b (0.9.6a is also supported)
  • SASL cyrus-sasl 1.5.27

For more information, see the MDS 2.2 system requirements here.

Tested Platforms

Please view the existing documentation about MDS 2.2 tested platforms here.

Backward Compatibility Summary

Pre-WS MDS (MDS2) has not changed from the version in GT3.2, so should be fully compatible.

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