GOCDB/Transfer Mechanism
Introduction
The mechanism to transfer data from a regional GOCDB to a central GOCDB is separated into two parts: regional instance tasks and central instance tasks.
Regional Instance Tasks
Whenever a CRUD (create, replace, update, delete) operation is performed on a fundamental GOCDB object (site, service endpoint, downtime, user, user role) the regional GOCDB will record the event. This record will include the object Id, the type of operation (CRUD) and the date and time at which the object was modified. The record will also show whether the object has been successfully synchronised with the central GOCDB via a synchronisation boolean. By default the synchronisation field will be false.
This table will be used to create a PI query exposing EGI data that has changed in the regional GOCDB:
- gocdbpi/?method=synchronise_egi_data
The central GOCDB will periodically read from this queries and acknowledge successfully synchronised data by posting the time of the last successfully synchronised object back to the regional portal.
e.g. the central GOCDB will perform an HTTP GET of https://regional.gocdb.ngi.com/gocdbpi/confirm_sync.php?last_date=11.12.01 10-07-2012
When the regional GOCDB receives a request for this URL it will change the synchronised boolean in the synchronisation table as true provided that the modification date was before or at the time provided in the last_date field.