Administration
Step 3 - Populating the Service Metadata for caGrid Services
One of the steps described in the setting up each service is editing a file with the name etc/serviceMetaData.xml. You will add to this file information about the organization that hosts the service and points of contact for questions/problems with the service instance. The contents of this file are published to the grid's index service and so will be accessible to anyone using the grid.
setMetadata.pl.zip
is a Perl script you can use to populate the service metadata for caGrid services. Instructions are provided in the top of the script. It was tested on Mac and Linux.
When you are setting up a new grid, there will usually be a number of services that are hosted by the same organization and have the same people who are appropriate as points of contact. Since all of this information appears together towards the end of the serviceMetadata.xml file, after you have entered the information for one service, you may find it most convenient to copy and paste the information into other service's serviceMetadata.xml file.
