CIS Release Notes

UNICORE CIS 1.3.0 (released 2013-11-11)

• Bug Fix: SF#666
• Support for GMap 3 (through Wicket library), eliminates the need for GMap's API Key
• CAnL incorporated for authentication
• New server configuration property names
• RPM package provided

Known Issues

• The RCP's CIS plug-in does not support viewing the Map inside the Eclipse's internal Web browser
• The provision to view the Web interface on secure "https" mode has been permanently disabled

UNICORE CIS 1.2.2-rc1 (released 2011-05-31)

• fix: publishing the latest CIS Web url to its resource properties, thereby enable access to the CIS from URC Web browser (SF Bug ID: 3480062)
• fix: properly dealing with the fetched glue 2.0 XML instance from unicore/x (SF buf #3205340)
• dependencies updated to support the unicore/x 6.4.2
• support for the latest glue 2.0 schema from GitHub
• authorisation mechanisms adapted from UNICORE/X
• asynchronously pulling the site's information from the Information Providers
• enabling separate instantiation over plain http of Web server hosting the client Web application
• updated Web interface color scheme
• showing terrain as a default map type upon loading the Web interface
• adjusting zoom and center position of the map according to the placement of markers
• documentation format updated to ASCII doc; generation is performed through the UNICORE docman tools

NOTE: Due to the adoption of the latest glue 2.0 XML schema, this version of CIS will not be able to show the unicore sites with the version less than 6.4.2

UNICORE CIS 1.2.1 (released 2010-03-15)

This version comes with the following new features and changes:

• manual registration of information providers (cip) by simply editing a file on the server side or use ucc commands on the client side (sf: 2765730)
• automatic fetch of cip list from an external registry
• deprecate the use of termination time while registering a cip
• provide log levels for individual system component's categories
• enable dynamic loading of logging configuration at runtime
• using log4j.properties instead of log4j.xml
• migrated the documentation from .doc to asciidoc's .txt format
• associate feed icon with every Web page
• use eXist XML database v1.4
• update UNICORE dependencies to latest stable release (v1.3.0)
• use Apache lucene as default indexing engine
• configurable Web services authorisers (adapted from uas)
• well formatted cis.config configuration

Bug fixes

• FIXED: Server shows internal server error (sf: 2963333)

UNICORE CIS 1.2 (released 2009-09-10)

This release includes the following new features and changes:

• completely revised Web interface based on Apache Wicket
• new Ajax based interface for all the CIS Web pages
• added a new Web page for searching the sites
• showing search results with the corresponding Site location and detailed UNICORE 6 site information.
• the options are added to configure the Google Maps geo location centre and API key from the configuration file
• provided a property to add CIS instance to the UNICORE 6 registry
• added sf.net Feature Id: 2794390, i.e. log the console information into logs/startup.log instead of nohup.out file
• updated CIS-Guide.pdf documentation
• added a new UCC command called "list-cis" to query a set of CIS instances inside UNICORE Registry

UNICORE CIS 1.1 (released 2009-05-14)

This release includes the following new features and changes:

• updating of google maps marker images according to the site health
• adding free text search on Sites Info
• grouping of cis ucc commands under "Grid Information" and prefixed ucc commands with "cis-"
• adding the cis owned certificates from fake ca and prolonged
• demo user certificates for initial deplyoment
• make spring framework optional for external (e.g. in D-GRID) database access
• adding properties for specifying the webapp folder and polling interval in cis.config
• updating the dependencies of uas, and ucc to 1.2.0

UNICORE CIS 1.0 (released 2008-11-07)

This release includes:

• Dynamic registration of CIPs, which are deployed at particular VSites
• Management of collection of CIPs and their respective information
• UCC client support for invoking CIS and CIP operations
• Web interface includes Google Maps for locating VSites geographically
• Authorised access to CIS using XUUDB. For example; registering CIP is a privileged operation, and shall not be invoked by normal user except querying of resources

Summary

• CIS (Common Information Service) is an information service developed for UNICORE6 representing Grid resources using GLUE2 as underlying data model.
• CIS-Core: Also called aggregator service, this is the main service, aggregates the information from different CIPs monitoring respective USites and makes them available to the authenticated clients via UCC. It pulls information as a XML document compliant with GLUE2 schema from registered CIPs, which is then stored and updated periodically.
• CIP (Common Information Provider): As name suggests, it sits on the Service/Resource provider side and fetches resource information from XNJS, SimpleIDB, and Static Information File (called cipdata.xml), which then constructs GLUE2 compliant XML document and expose it for discovery process.

UNICORE CIS 0.1 (released 2008-04-07)

First official release of UNICORE's Common Information Service (CIS). This release includes:

• Registry Service to aggregate UNICORE site information in OGSA GLUE2 format
• Common Information Provider Service: Information provider for individual UNICORE site
• Web UI: Basic Web interface to show site information listing
• UCC CLI: Command line access to CIS through UNICORE UCC client