Play it again, SAM

After much pain, we have finally got a SAM server up and running for Grid-Ireland (see here). We used to run an SFT server, but it was ancient and when eventually the client software became incompatible with the UI distribution, we decided to move to SAM. It looked like there were quite good installation docs available so we assigned it to someone as a Friday afternoon project. That was two months ago! It turned out that the documentation, while good, had a few critical errors/omissions in it, and the support was non-existent. We've finally got it sorted now (the last problem was solved when I divined by reading the source code that you had to define an ACL of approved DNs in the config file) and it looks like it should be useful in keeping track of our non-EGEE sites. We'll try and feed our experience back upstream, or (probably more useful) stick it on a public page so it makes it into Google.