Queries about ANL Venue Server

[Mary Fritsch]

Ivan can you answer this particular questions for Jon Lau... and copy me
jonlau at ngp.org.sg

I don't want to misspeak..

>I see.  I'm still a little confused here about the Venue setup.  Are all 
>the venues in the ANL venue server hosted locally, or are there some of 
>them links to venue servers created by other organisations?  i.e. if I set 
>up a venue server in Singapore, is there a way for me to pass the address 
>of the Singapore's venue server to ANL so that the ANL's venue server can 
>link to the one in Singapore?  If its possible, are there other entities 
>linked to ANL's venue server in this way?




At 09:06 AM 6/18/2004 +0800, you wrote:
>Hi Mary,
>
>Thanks so much for your help.  Below are my responses in blue.  Cheers.
>
>At 04:48 AM 6/18/2004, you wrote:
>>>1.  I was told to register, and after registering, I'm seeing this error 
>>>message "This site is inactive. The following information may be 
>>>inaccurate."  and the webpage follows to display my site information, 
>>>etc.  Could I ask what is meant by "site" here?
>>
>>There are two scheduling systems in place, NCSA AG Scheduler is most 
>>dominant and you simply put your site information within these 
>>webpages.  You might have to put info for the site BEFORE you add 
>>yourself as a registrant.  As you see you need to affiliate yourself with 
>>a company existing.
>>http://agschedule.ncsa.uiuc.edu/register_user.asp
>>
>>If you haven't listed your site yet, go here and put in information 
>>FIRST, then register yourself.
>>http://agschedule.ncsa.uiuc.edu/addSiteReq.asp
>>"Don't see your site?" is the link to get here.
>
>Thanks.
>
>>>2.  I've already registered Singapore in the Global Node Listing, but 
>>>could I ask what is purpose of "Registering your site for bridging to ANL"?
>>
>>This is really an older crutch to help folks not on multicast network 
>>yet.  Do not register for this type of bridging.  AG 2.x has in place 
>>one-click switch to unicast if your multicast isn't working.
>
>I see.  Yes, I'm aware of AG 2.x having this unicast to multicast option 
>in the menu. :-)
>
>>>3.  Could ANL help to create a "National Grid (Singapore)" room in the 
>>>Institutional Lobby for us?
>>
>>We are not creating any new sites in the institution venue.  We are 
>>implementing a new automated way of doing this and all sites will need to 
>>recreate the venue or add them if they never had a institution room with 
>>us.  Sorry about this down time for getting an institution venue.
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
>I see.  I'm still a little confused here about the Venue setup.  Are all 
>the venues in the ANL venue server hosted locally, or are there some of 
>them links to venue servers created by other organisations?  i.e. if I set 
>up a venue server in Singapore, is there a way for me to pass the address 
>of the Singapore's venue server to ANL so that the ANL's venue server can 
>link to the one in Singapore?  If its possible, are there other entities 
>linked to ANL's venue server in this way?




>With regards to the new automated venue server, when will this be up and 
>running?
>
>Cheers!
>
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>Assistant Head (Technical)          Fax   : (65)-6872-1361
>National Grid Office               Email : jonlau at ngp.org.sg
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