Programmatic Administration Interface
This section describes the programming interfaces that allow to configure, manage and control nodes, services, applications and resources in a gCube infrastructure. As the gCube technology is deployed as a distributed system, there exist several APIs to manage the different areas of the system. This section is a single point of reference for all these APIs by grouping them for their logical purpose.
This section includes the following topics:
| Managing a gCube Hosting Node (gHN) | Describes operations related to manage a node of the infrastructure: how to shut it down or restart it (with and without deleting its state), how to add a new scope and remove an existing scope. |
| Managing a Running Instance (RI) | Describes operation related to running instance management: how to add a new scope and remove an existing scope, how to deploy and undeploy them |
| Adding / Removing a Scope to a gCube Resource (different from gHN and RI) |
Describes how to add and delete scopes to gCube Resources that are not nodes or service's instances. |
| Creating / Deleting a gCube Resource (different from gHN and RI) |
Describes how to manage gCube Resources. There are specific actions for each class of resource. |
| Editing a gCube Resource | Describes how to change the representation of gCube Resources in the Information System. Depending on the resource type, different components have to be contacted for this. |
| Banning a gCube Resource | Describes how to instruct the Information System to exclude certain gCube resource from a given scope. This operation is available for VO-Managers and makes sense especially for nodes and running instances, when the decision to join or not a scope is partially under the control of Site Managers. |
For each of them, a detailed explanation is provided about which component(s) must be contacted for doing what and which are the scope propagation rules.
Managing a gCube Hosting Node (gHN)
Target: Shut down the node Component(s) to contact: gHNManager on the gHN Operation(s) to invoke: How to find it (them): query on the IS that looks for a RI of the gHN-Manager running on the gHN
