The BDII, which stands for Berkeley Database Information Index, consists of a standard LDAP server which is updated by an external process. The update process obtains LDIF from a number of sources and merges them. It then compares this to the contents of the database and creates an LDIF file of the differences. This is then used to update the database.

It uses an LDAP implementation of the Grid Laboratory Uniform Environment

Grid Laboratory Uniform Environment

GLUE, which stands for Grid Laboratory Uniform Environment, is a technology-agnostic information model for a uniform representation of Grid resources.-GLUE 1.3:...

data model.