Testing the site BDII

The site BDII should deliver information on all site resources that have been configured (by yaim) in the file /opt/glite/etc/gip/site-urls.conf. Display the contents of this file on the command line by

cat /opt/glite/etc/gip/site-urls.conf

CE  ldap://gks-1-124.fzk.de:2170/mds-vo-name=resource,o=grid
SITE_BDII  ldap://gks-1-121.fzk.de:2170/mds-vo-name=resource,o=grid

To check if the site BDII can be queried for information you can try:

source /root/yaim/site-info.def
ldapsearch -xLLL -b mds-vo-name=$SITE_NAME,o=grid -p 2170 -h $SITE_BDII_HOST

You can also test if ldap is listening on port 2170 with

lsof -i :2170

If this is not the case, the BDII service has to be started

# sh /etc/init.d/bdii status
BDII Stopped                                               [  OK  ]
# sh /etc/init.d/bdii start 
Starting SLAPD:                                            [  OK  ]

Starting update process:                                   [  OK  ]
# sh /etc/init.d/bdii status
BDII Runnning                 

From a remote location, e. g. from a User Interface (or from anywhere ldap available) execute

ldapsearch -xLLL -b mds-vo-name=<site name>,o=grid -p 2170 -h <site BDII hostname>

If this does not work check if the port 2170 is open in the firewall:

telnet <site bdii hostname> 2170

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