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    MDS in GT 4.0

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    The document summarizes the different versions of the Monitoring and Discovery System (MDS) that have been included in releases of the Globus Toolkit. MDS is an information service that provides data about available resources on the Grid and their status. It describes MDS implementations in GT4 (MDS4), GT3 (MDS3), and GT2 (MDS2), noting technological differences like the use of WSRF in GT4 and security concerns with older versions.

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    The document summarizes the different versions of the Monitoring and Discovery System (MDS) that have been included in releases of the Globus Toolkit. MDS is an information service that provides data about available resources on the Grid and their status. It describes MDS implementations in GT4 (MDS4), GT3 (MDS3), and GT2 (MDS2), noting technological differences like the use of WSRF in GT4 and security concerns with older versions.

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    The document summarizes the different versions of the Monitoring and Discovery System (MDS) that have been included in releases of the Globus Toolkit. MDS is an information service that provides data about available resources on the Grid and their status. It describes MDS implementations in GT4 (MDS4), GT3 (MDS3), and GT2 (MDS2), noting technological differences like the use of WSRF in GT4 and security concerns with older versions.

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    The Monitoring and Discovery System (MDS) is the information services component of the

    Globus Toolkit and provides information about the available resources on the Grid and their
    status.

     MDS in GT4
     Older releases
    o MDS in GT3
    o MDS in GT2
     Glue Schema

    MDS in GT4
    MDS4 is a WSRF implementation of information services released with Globus Toolkit 4.0.

    MDS in GT 4.0

    This version of MDS includes WSRF implementations of the Index Service, a Trigger Service,
    WebMDS (formerly known as the Web Service Data Browser) and the underyling framework,
    the Aggregator Framework.

    To support existing deployments, the GT 4.0 distribution also includes MDS2 (also referred to as
    Pre-Web Services MDS).

     Downloads
    o Latest stable GT4 release
     Documentation
    o Key Concepts
    o Aggregator Framework
    o Index Service
    o Trigger Service
    o WebMDS
    o Resource Properties
     Presentations and tutorials
    o Distributed Monitoring and Information Services for the Grid , Jennifer
    Schopf - The Globus Alliance, Argonne National Laboratory, Sept 2005
    o Monitoring and Discovery in a Web Services Framework: Functionality
    and Performance of the Globus Toolkit's MDS4, Jennifer M. Schopf, Mike
    D'Arcy, Neill Miller, Laura Pearlman, Ian Foster, and Carl Kesselman
    Argonne National Laboratory Tech Report ANL/MCS-P1248-0405, April
    2005.
    o GT4 Monitoring and Discovery, Ben Clifford - The Globus Alliance, USC
    Information Sciences Institute

    MDS in GT3
    Developed with Globus Toolkit 3.x, MDS3 is an OGSI implementation of information services
    and is available in Globus Toolkit 3.0 and 3.2. Includes the Index Service and Service Data
    Providers (corresponds to the Information Providers of MDS2) with three Provider interfaces.
    MDS3 is compatible with the Web Service Data Browser tool (which is the OGSI
    implementation of WebMDS).

    To support existing deployments, GT3 distributions also include MDS2 (also referred to as Pre-
    Web Services MDS).

    MDS in GT 3.2

     Downloads
    o Latest stable GT3 release, version 3.2.1. Bundles that specifically include
    MDS3 are:
     All Services
     WS Base Installer
     Documentation
     Related software
    o Web Service Data Browser tool - Makes it easy to display the service data
    and use different visualizers for analyzing this data. Note: the download is
    no longer available; however, you can view documentation here.

    MDS in GT 3.0

    Note: GT 3.0 is no longer supported.

     Documentation

    MDS in GT2
    Developed with Globus Toolkit 2.x, MDS2 is an LDAP-based implementation of information
    services. This component is also available in later versions of the Globus Toolkit (3.0, 3.2 and
    4.0) to support existing deployments. It is based on OpenLDAP and fully implements referral
    with a combined GRIS and GIIS listening on port 2135 and answering queries based on the
    ``Mds-VO-name'' string. Mds-VO-Name=local refers to the GRIS and anything else refers to a
    GIIS if it exists with that name.

    Includes: GRIS, GIIS and information providers.

    Note: GT 2.x is no longer supported.

    Security Notice for MDS 2.4 in the Globus Toolkit 4.0 Release

    Please note that in the GT4 pre-WS build, MDS2 is not installed by default. This is because of
    security concerns with two third-party libraries, Open LDAP v.2.0.22 and Cyrus SASL (v.
    1.5.27). That version of OpenLDAP has security vulnerabilities that are no longer being patched
    due to the age of the version (the current version is 2.2.25). This means that anyone who runs
    MDS2 on their server has a chance of being affected by this, although we have no reported cases
    of this occurring. A similar situation exists for the version of Cyrus SASL we are using although
    this can be avoided by not using MDS2 in secure-mode.

    An unsupported, minimally-tested version of MDS2 based on more recent, more secure versions
    of OpenLDAP and Cyrus SASL is available for download here; however, we strongly
    recommend that any MDS2 users upgrade their system to use the new WSRF-based MDS4, and
    we will be happy to work with you to make this possible for your project. Please note that in
    GT4, MDS2 is a depreciated component, which means that it will not be included in the GT4.2
    release, nor supported once GT4.4 exists.

    MDS in GT 2.4

     Documentation (this documentation is also compatible with the MDS2


    components in later versions of the Globus Toolkit )
     Related software
    Note: some of these links were pointing to the deprecated GTR (and have been
    disabled) and some are linking to the current site of the mdsweb and are only
    DRAFTS.
    o MDS2 Viz Scripts - A set of flexible PHP scripts to show basic MDS2
    information.
    o Simple Ganglia MDS Information Provider - Connects to a ganglia
    monitoring daemon (gmond) or a ganglia Meta-daemon (gmetad).
    o Teragrid Service Status Information Provider - Interfaces to a set of scripts
    to describe the status of some basic services. As part of the TeraGrid
    project, Jim Basney has created a series of scripts to describe the status of
    several resource services, which this IP interacts with.
    o Certificate Publishing Information Provider - Advertises information
    about what user certificates are accepted at a site.
    o GridFTP Server Information Provider - Advertises the state of the
    GridFTP server installation, and works with any MDS2 installation.
    o Software Information Provider - Uses a small configuration file to report
    path and versioning information for software packages that are running on
    your machines.

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