[Gt-eos] usage stats collection

[Mischa Salle]

Hi all,

I would strongly favour disabling it by default. I don't think users
will realise they need (or even that they can) disable it at runtime.

Mischa

On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 01:58:28PM +0100, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> On 02/28/2018 11:28 PM, Basney, Jim wrote:
> > Mátyás Selmeci wrote:
> > > According to
> > > http://toolkit.globus.org/toolkit/docs/latest-stable/Usage_Stats.html,
> > > GT phones home with usage statistics. Should we patch that out?
> > 
> > Yes. We disabled it for GSISSH and MyProxy a while ago. I think it should be disabled/removed throughout GCT.
> 
> I agree, but for now this can also be disabled by setting an environment
> variable (`export GLOBUS_USAGE_OPTOUT=1`) or configuration option of a
> service (e.g. `-disable-usage-stats` for the Globus GridFTP server). So not
> absolutely essential.
> 
> But if we can get rid of it easily, let's do it. :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Frank
> 
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> Frank Scheiner
> 
> High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS)
> Department Project User Management & Accounting
> 
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