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2) Automated Process (updated by trscrontab job running in pinger@pinger.slac.stanford.edu)
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Manually disabling hosts
This is accomplished via the tulip data base. In the tulip database, the table landmarks has a parameter "enabled" which is used to decide which landmark is to be added to sites.xml (the list of active landmark sites). This XML file is later used by the reflector to query the active landmarks for the results. Sites.xml is generated by a trscronjob so if we change the value of enabled to '0' it would automatically not appear in Sites.xml after it has re-run through the trscronjob. We can also update Sites.xml manually. The process is discussed below.
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