System Configuration Parameters in Database

There is the PANDA.CONFIG table, so-called gdpconfig table in the database where you can define any configuration parameter shared by all PanDA applications, so that system admins don’t have to tweak the static cfg files every time they optimize the system.

The table has the following columns:

Name	Description
APP	The application name which uses the parameter
COMPONENT	The component name which uses the parameter
KEY	The parameter name
VALUE	The parameter value
TYPE	The parameter type
VO	The organization name which defines the parameter
DESCR	Description of the parameter

Applications get those parameters through the pandaserver.taskbuffer.TaskBuffer module.

from pandaserver.taskbuffer.TaskBuffer import taskBuffer
p = taskBuffer.getConfigValue(COMPONENT, KEY, APP, VO)

The method returns None if the parameter is undefined.