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New CENTRAL CVS Service at CERN
Manuel Guijarro , IT/PS
A new central CVS service is in production at CERN since last September. The service is fully described at URL:
It is already hosting over 15 projects, including:
- Anaphe
- NA48 Analysis Software
- MammoGrid project
- MACSy (The Modular Accelerator Control System)
- MCSM (The Machine Component State Manager)
- The Java Api for Parameter Control (AB Division)
- The Java Data Viewer (AB Division)
- CCDB Software
- FIO Software
- ...and many more.
- Several access schemes implemented: kserver (Kerberos), SSH and pserver.
- Data integrity: all CVS repositories are hourly mirrored and daily archived in Castor HSM.
- Transparent fail-over and scalability via an ISS DNS alias that distributes the CVS transactions among several farm PCs.
- Automatic CVS lock monitoring
- Several WEB interfaces to CVS: CVSWEB and ViewCVS. Bonsai and Savannah like Web Portal will be available before summer.
- ...and many more...