Instructions on how to use the bdii configuration tool.

Usage: ./bdiiconf.pl -i configuration file [-o output file] [-d]

This script reads an input configuration file which can contain 3 types of
information; include statements, exclude statements and references to ldap
servers. The intention is that it will make it easier to modify the ldap
servers accessed by a BDII.

The directives are as follows;

INCLUDE     <filename/URL>
EXCLUDE     <sitename>
<sitename>  <ldap://siteldap>

An input file with the following lines;

INCLUDE ../lcg2-production-sites.conf
INCLUDE ../lcg2-test-sites.conf

would simply merge the lists of ldap servers in each file, removing
duplicates. In order to add the SITE-A ldap server to the list, you could
do the following;

INCLUDE ../lcg2-production-sites.conf
INCLUDE ../lcg2-test-sites.conf
SITE-A	ldap://SITE-A

and if one of the included files had this line

SITE-B  ldap://SITE-B

but SITE-B should be excluded from your BDII, the conf file becomes;

INCLUDE ../lcg2-production-sites.conf
INCLUDE ../lcg2-test-sites.conf
SITE-A	ldap://SITE-A
EXCLUDE	SITE-B


Note the following;

Files included by the script can contain INCLUDE and EXCLUDE statements of
their own. An EXCLUDE statement is only valid for the file within which it
is defined, or anything included by that file.

The script will follow INCLUDE statements which refer to URLs, eg

INCLUDE	http://path/extra.conf

However, no INCLUDEs or EXCLUDEs will be honoured in such a file.

The -d flag is used for debugging.