DYNES-Deployments

[Jason Zurawski <>]

Hi Wilson;

Since this is a topic that is better seen by the entire community, I am 
placing it on the mailing list.  

Brian Cashman (CCed) is putting together documentation to address just what 
you ask in a more complete manner.  There is some out there now on the OSCARS 
API and web interface but this may be a little raw for the unexperienced 
(e.g. developer documentation written by developers):

 - Full protocol specification for writing web service queries: 
http://www.controlplane.net

 - OSCARS web interface information: 
https://oscars.es.net/OSCARS/docs/UserManual.html

With regards to ATLAS, others afflicted with the project and on this list 
will be able to comment more.  I would also encourage you to mail 

 (join here: https://listserv.es.net/mailman/listinfo/oscars-users) with 
additional questions.  The developers are on this list, and are better geared 
to support questions of this nature.  

Hope this helps;

-jason

On Oct 23, 2012, at 2:03 PM, "Dillaway, Wilson" 
<>
 wrote:

> Jason and others,
>      I am responding to the following email:
>  
> ========================================================
> >
> > From: Jason Zurawski 
> > <>
> > Date: July 27, 2012 7:58:48 PM EDT
> > To: 
> > 
> > Subject: [dynes-deployments] FDT Documentation
> > All;
> >
> > We would like to note the availability of new documentation describing 
> > use of the FDT tool:
> >
> >  http://www.internet2.edu/ion/docs/FDTAgent_Usage_Dynes_v01.pdf
> >
> > This should be passed along to users on your campus.  Please let us know 
> > of questions/comments.
> >
> > Thanks;
> >
> > -jason
> >
> ========================================================
>  
>      Thank you for the helpful document (I have now fetched version 3 from 
> the Internet2 web site).  Among other things, it describes how to make FDT 
> requests from the Linux command line.
>  
>  
> And a question.  There is a two-page PDF (dated July 7, 2011) on the 
> Internet2 web site as follows:
> http://www.internet2.edu/pubs/201107-IS-DY.pdf
>  
> which contains the following diagram:
>  
> <image002.jpg>
>      My question is regarding the two “API Request” entities in the 
> diagram, namely the web page and the application.  Do these exist, as 
> samples, in a form available to the DYNES community?  My reason for asking 
> is two-fold:
>  
> 1.)    For a certain category of DYNES user, making an FDT request from a 
> web page might be more attractive than from the Linux command line.
>  
> 2.)    As regards an application calling the API, Tufts is an LHC/ATLAS 
> Tier3 site, and that will be our primary and earliest use case for DYNES.  
> Has any of the ATLAS software suite been modified to make its own API calls 
> to absorb the function of the FDT server, such that files can be moved via 
> DYNES directly from the ATLAS toolset without using the FDT command line 
> directly?
>  
>  
>                           Thanks!
>  
>  
>                               Wilson Dillaway
>                               Infrastructure Planning
>                              Tufts University
>                              
>