DIRAC Section

The DIRAC section contains general parameters needed in most of installation types. In the table below options directly placed into the section are described.

VirtualOrganization

The name of the Virtual Organization of the installation User Community. The option is defined in a single VO installation.

ValueType: string

Setup

The name of the DIRAC installation Setup. This option is defined in the client installations to define which subset of DIRAC Systems the client will work with. See DIRAC Configuration for the description of the DIRAC configuration nomenclature.

ValueType: string

Extensions

The list of extensions to the Core DIRAC software used by the given installation

ValueType: list

Configuration subsection

The Configuration subsection defines several options to discover and use the configuration data

Configuration/Servers

This option defines a list of configuration servers, both master and slaves, from which clients can obtain the configuration data

ValueType: list

Configuration/MasterServer

the URL of the Master Configuration Server. This server is used for updating the Configuration Service.

ValueType: string

Configuration/EnableAutoMerge

Enables automatic merging of the modifications done in parallel by several clients

ValueType: boolean

Security subsection

The Security subsection defines several options related to the DIRAC/DISET security framework

Security/UseServerCertificates

Flag to use server certificates and not user proxies. This is typically true for the server installations.

ValueType: boolean

Security/SkipCAChecks

Flag to skip the server identity by the client. The flag is usually defined in the client installations

ValueType: boolean

Setups subsection

The subsection defines the names of different DIRAC Setups as subsection names. In each subsection of the Setup section the names of corresponding System instances are defined. In the example below “Production” instances of Systems Configuration and Framework are defined as part of the “Dirac-Prduction” Setup:

DIRAC
{
  Setups
  {
    Dirac-Production
    {
      Configuration = Production
      Framework = Production
    }
  }
}