[Planetlab-devel] Re: PlanetLab updates

[Adams, Robert]

Just keep us user's informed and we can manually follow along.

I have an automated service (DSMT) which reads sites.xml and maps
applications onto nodes. It's going to take some hand holding to make
sure applications are kept running.  Please publish lists of which nodes
are being converted and when -- then I will know when to hand hold.

I'm willing to help however I can to support the conversion.

-- robert adams

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Huang [mailto:mlhuang at CS.Princeton.EDU] 
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 7:15 AM
To: Adams, Robert
Cc: devel at planet-lab.org
Subject: Re: [Planetlab-devel] Re: PlanetLab updates

Adams, Robert wrote:
> Will the old and new PLC's report which nodes are in which version?
That
> is, will the www.planet-lab show nodes disappearing and
www2.planet-lab
> show nodes appearing in sites.xml until all nodes are moved over. I
> think I can make my slice manager talk to both APIs to add and remove
> slices, but asking www.planet-lab which nodes a slice is on and not
> getting any information about the slices allocated in www2.planetlab
> might be a bit confusing. And visa-versa.

Can you just add your slices to both DBs? We're already drowning in
temporary 
scaffolding to manage this upgrade...any more and we're going to slip on
this 
deadline as well and draw out the process.

> Could you be a little clearer on what information will be available on
> each system? Part way through the conversion, what will each of the
PLCs
> report? How will we know which nodes are converted? Are you going to
> publish the list of which nodes are being converted in the next time
> period?

How about we delete nodes from the www.planet-lab.org DB as we move them
to 
booting from www2.planet-lab.org?

--Mark
PlanetLab Operations