[[ux_cip]]
   
The CIP (Infoprovider)
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The CIP is a component that provides information in GLUE2 format 
about a UNICORE/X server to interested clients or other services 
such as CIS or even non-UNICORE components such as BDII.

It consists of two parts: the basic infoprovider maintains information 
and generates the required GLUE2 document and a web service that can 
be queried by clients or other services.

To setup CIP, a startup entry in the main config file +CONF/uas.config+
is required:

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# add CIP setup to startup tasks, 'NNN' should be a high-enough integer
container.onstartup.NNN=de.fzj.unicore.cisprovider.impl.InitOnStartup
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There are a number of configuration parameters that control how
CIP is set up.

include::cip-properties.txt[]


