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===Limitations===
===Limitations===
A virtual site cannot have a child service endpoint that doesn't have a parent site.
* A virtual site cannot have a child service endpoint that doesn't have a parent site.
A role granted over a virtual site doesn't give any permission over child service endpoints.
* A role granted over a virtual site doesn't give any permission over child service endpoints.

Revision as of 16:02, 20 January 2012

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Virtual Sites

Introduction

Virtual sites are a mechanism to arbitrarily group service endpoints together. The service endpoints themselves will still belong to (non-virtual) sites. This feature has originally been requested at https://rt.egi.eu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=987.

Virtual Site Entity

A virtual site is a new GOCDB entity containing the following information:

  • Name
  • Description
  • Contact E-Mail
  • Monitored flag (Y/N)
  • Child service endpoints
  • Roles held over the virtual site

Cardinality

A service endpoint may belong to many virtual sites and a virtual site may have many child service endpoints. The existing cardinality between (non-virtual) sites and service endpoints remains: a service endpoint may only have one parent (non-virtual) site.

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PI Queries

We will introduce two new PI queries containing virtual site information:

get_virtual_sites

Parameters:

  • vsitename - Only return info for a specific virtual site
  • scope - Only return virtual sites that are (In)visible to EGI

Example Output: XML

get_virtual_sites_roles

Parameters:

  • dn - Limit results to user with given certificate DN

Example output: XML

Roles

When a user creates a virtual site they will be granted the role "Virtual Site Administrator" over the site. Other users will be able to request a "Virtual Site Administrator" role over the virtual site and the administrator will be able to accept or reject these requests as they see fit using the standard role management mechanism.

User Interface

The following changes will be made to support virtual sites in the user interface:

  • New link: "Add Virtual Site" added to the left hand menu bar
  • New link: "View Virtual Sites" added to the left hand menu bar
  • When viewing a virtual site the properties listed in "Virtual Site Entity" above will be shown
  • My Sites will show virtual sites administered by the current user

Limitations

  • A virtual site cannot have a child service endpoint that doesn't have a parent site.
  • A role granted over a virtual site doesn't give any permission over child service endpoints.