<description>Basic system variables.</description>
<variablelist>
- <variable id="generic_flavour" type="string">
- <name>Generic Flavour</name>
- <value>pl</value>
- <description>This string refers to a class located in sfa.generic that describes
- which specific implementation needs to be used for api, manager and driver objects.
- PlanetLab users do not need to change this setting.
- </description>
- </variable>
+ <variable id="generic_flavour" type="string">
+ <name>Generic Flavour</name>
+ <value>pl</value>
+ <description>This string refers to a class located in sfa.generic that describes
+ which specific implementation needs to be used for api, manager and driver objects.
+ PlanetLab users do not need to change this setting.
+ </description>
+ </variable>
<variable id="interface_hrn" type="string">
<name>Human readable name</name>
<description>The path to the default credential schema</description>
</variable>
- <variable id="api_debug" type="boolean">
+ <variable id="api_loglevel" type="int">
<name>Debug</name>
- <value>false</value>
- <description>Flag to turn debug on.</description>
+ <value>0</value>
+ <description>Logging level; 0=minimum, 1=info, 2=debug</description>
</variable>
<variable id="max_slice_renew" type="int">
registry.</description>
</variable>
- <variable id="type" type="string">
- <name>Registry type</name>
- <value>pl</value>
- <description>The type of backend server for this
- registry. Some registries may not be myplc.</description>
- </variable>
-
<variable id="host" type="hostname">
<name>Hostname</name>
<value>localhost</value>
</variablelist>
</category>
+ <!-- ======================================== -->
+ <category id="sfa_sm">
+ <name>Slice Manager</name>
+ <description>The settings that affect the slice manager that will run
+ as part of this SFA instance.</description>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <variable id="enabled" type="boolean">
+ <name>Enable Slice Manager</name>
+ <value>true</value>
+ <description>Allows this local SFA instance to run as a
+ slice manager.</description>
+ </variable>
+
+ <variable id="host" type="hostname">
+ <name>Hostname</name>
+ <value>localhost</value>
+ <description>The hostname where the slice manager is expected to
+ be found.</description>
+ </variable>
+
+ <variable id="port" type="int">
+ <name>Port number</name>
+ <value>12347</value>
+ <description>The port where the slice manager is to be found.</description>
+ </variable>
+
+ <variable id="caching" type="boolean">
+ <name>Cache advertisement rspec</name>
+ <value>false</value>
+ <description>Enable caching of the global advertisement, as
+ returned by ListResources without a slice argument. </description>
+ </variable>
+
+ </variablelist>
+ </category>
+
<!-- ======================================== -->
<category id="sfa_aggregate">
<name>Aggregate</name>
aggregate manager.</description>
</variable>
- <variable id="type" type="string">
- <name>Aggregate type</name>
- <value>pl</value>
- <description>The type of backend server for this
- aggregate. Some aggregates may not be myplc.</description>
- </variable>
-
- <variable id="rspec_schema" type="string">
- <name>RSpec Schema</name>
- <value>/etc/sfa/pl.rng</value>
- <description>The path to the default schema</description>
- </variable>
-
<variable id="host" type="hostname">
<name>Hostname</name>
<value>localhost</value>
<value>12346</value>
<description>The port where the aggregate is to be found.</description>
</variable>
+
+ <variable id="caching" type="boolean">
+ <name>Cache advertisement rspec</name>
+ <value>true</value>
+ <description>Enable caching of the global advertisement, as
+ returned by ListResources without a slice argument. </description>
+ </variable>
+
</variablelist>
</category>
<!-- ======================================== -->
- <category id="sfa_sm">
- <name>Slice Manager</name>
- <description>The settings that affect the slice manager that will run
- as part of this SFA instance.</description>
+ <category id="sfa_db">
+ <name></name>
+ <description>The settings that tell this SFA instance where to find its database. You can essentially leave this as-is unless you plan on hosting your data on some other box.</description>
<variablelist>
<variable id="enabled" type="boolean">
- <name>Enable Slice Manager</name>
+ <name>Enabled</name>
<value>true</value>
- <description>Allows this local SFA instance to run as a
- slice manager.</description>
- </variable>
-
- <variable id="type" type="string">
- <name>Slice Manager type</name>
- <value>pl</value>
- <description>The type of backend server for this
- slice manager. Not all slice managers are myplc.</description>
+ <description>Enable the database server on this machine.</description>
</variable>
<variable id="host" type="hostname">
- <name>Hostname</name>
+ <name>Database host</name>
<value>localhost</value>
- <description>The hostname where the slice manager is expected to
- be found.</description>
+ <description>The host where the SFA database can be reached.</description>
</variable>
<variable id="port" type="int">
- <name>Port number</name>
- <value>12347</value>
- <description>The port where the slice manager is to be found.</description>
+ <name>Database port</name>
+ <value>5432</value>
+ <description>The port where the SFA database can be reached.</description>
+ </variable>
+
+ <variable id="user" type="string">
+ <name>Database user</name>
+ <value>sfadbuser</value>
+ <description>When SFA gets co-hosted with a myplc, this should match the PLC config.</description>
+ </variable>
+
+ <variable id="password" type="string">
+ <name>Database password</name>
+ <value></value>
+ <description>When SFA gets co-hosted with a myplc, this should match the PLC config.</description>
</variable>
+
+ <variable id="name" type="string">
+ <name>Database name</name>
+ <value>sfa</value>
+ <description>SFA database name.</description>
+ </variable>
+
+
</variablelist>
</category>
<description>Full URL of PLC interface.</description>
</variable>
- <variable id="db_name" type="string">
- <name>Database name</name>
- <value>planetlab5</value>
- <description>Planetlab database name.</description>
- </variable>
-
- <variable id="db_host" type="hostname">
- <name>Datbase host</name>
- <value>localhost</value>
- <description>The host where the PLC database can be reached.</description>
- </variable>
-
- <variable id="db_port" type="int">
- <name>Database port</name>
- <value>5432</value>
- <description>The port where the PLC database can be reached.</description>
- </variable>
-
- <variable id="db_user" type="string">
- <name>Database user</name>
- <value>pgsqluser</value>
- <description></description>
- </variable>
-
- <variable id="db_password" type="string">
- <name>Database password</name>
- <value></value>
- <description>The password for PLC_DB_USER.</description>
- </variable>
-
</variablelist>
</category>
+
+ <!-- ======================================== -->
<category id="sfa_flashpolicy">
<name>SFA Flash Policy</name>
<description>The settings that affect the flash policy server that will run