Starting countdown for services run on lxb2051.cern.ch (LcgRegistrar, LcgNodesStatus, LCGVomsConFiles)

Calendar of events (most recent first):

• 2006-12-11: Switch-off the slapd process on lcg-registrar.cern.ch at 10a.m. CET.
• 2006-12-08: Broadcast the stoppage of lcg-registrar.cern.ch on http://cic.in2p3.fr.
• 2006-12-05: lcg-nodes-status and voms configurations transfer to other nodes.
• 2006-12-05: Opened https://savannah.cern.ch/bugs/index.php?22184 for site-info.def change. Prepared the new gridmap file with no LDAP servers. Emailed the ROLLOUT, the Grid Deployment Group and the GMoD.
• 2006-12-04: Last Reminder sent to the 4 remaining VOs still appearing to register via lcg-registrar.cern.ch (same text). Copy sent to the GDB chairman and to the Security Group, whose members include the LHC experiment VOs. Reminded the grid-vo.nikhef.nl managers to switch off the LDAP-based LHC experiment VO databases.
• 2006-08-11:Email reminder to the 4 remaining VOs still appearing to register via lcg-registrar.cern.ch:

   Dear colleagues,
BaBar, D0, EGEODE and PhenoGrid are the only remaining VOs to require the acceptance of the LCG Usage Rules via 
https://lcg-registrar.cern.ch/cgi-bin/register/account.pl
Please remember that this service will be stopped at the end of this year as 
agreed on 2005-03-22 (notes http://cern.ch/dimou/lcg/voms/VOmgrs-registrar.txt) 
and reminded on 2006-06-13 (http://cern.ch/dimou/lcg/registrar/TF/lcg-registrar.end). 
The date is now fixed on Monday December 11th 2006.
Please make sure your registration data are hosted elsewhere by then.
Thanks and regards
maria

• 2006-06-13: Email to VO Managers of 8 VOs registering via lcg-registrar.cern.ch: http://cern.ch/dimou/lcg/registrar/TF/lcg-registrar.end

• 2006-06-13: Email to LHC Experiment VO Managers reminding that users should re-register via lcg-voms.cern.ch: http://cern.ch/dimou/lcg/voms/voms-ldap.end
• 2006-02-24: VOMS/VOMRS in production for VOs ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, LHCb, DTEAM, ESR (ESR doesn't use VOMRS).
• 2005-03-22: Meeting (notes in http://cern.ch/dimou/lcg/voms/VOmgrs-registrar.txt ) with VO Managers of all VOs hosted on lcg-registrar.cern.ch (LHC Experiments, DTEAM, Zeus, Babar, D0, H1, BIOMED, EGEODE, ILC, Phenogrid). Agreed to start migration to VOMS in view of the LDAP service switch off.

DNS name and aliases:

• lxb2051.cern.ch: Contains all the configuration files for all CERN VOMS servers voms101,2,3.cern.ch (services lcg-voms.cern.ch and voms.cern.ch). More in VomsConfiguration and http://cern.ch/dimou/lcg/voms/configuration (Details in page VomsConfigSetup)
• lcg-registrar.cern.ch: Grid Registration Database for some LDAP-based VOs (Details in page LcgRegistrar).
• lcg-vo.cern.ch: Grid VO Database for old LDAP-based VO DTEAM (abandoned since 2006-02-24).
• lcg-nodes-status.cern.ch: Grid Deployment Group machines' inventory for authorised users under https://lcg-nodes-status:8282 (Details in page LcgNodesStatus).