Introduction

This component is constructed as an effort of the Joint Research Activity 3 (JRA3) which is responsable for all security aspects of the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE). This component is part of the security subsystem of the gLite software distrobution.

The Job Repository is orginally constructed as a part of the European Datagrid project project. It was constructed as a part of the Gridification subtask (Work Package 4).

It collects information about the user, its job and user-mapping information when a job has been assigned to a fabric and handled by LCMAPS. This document describes the Job Repository, which is an extra functionality to log and keep track of what is happening inside your farm.

The Job Repository consists of different parts:

• The Database, typicaly a MySQL database that holds the information as the Job Repository database which is connectable via an ODBC interface to ensure the interoperability with other then MySQL database backends.
• Job Repository LCMAPS module, this module is loaded in the LCMAPS framework and extracts job, user and credential information from the LCMAPS framework and stores this information in a relational database. It includes the database schema.
• Job Repository API, this library is the interface between the LCMAPS module and the ODBC connection to the database.

More information on LCMAPS can be found here.