This log refers to EMI2 - Update 1. The underlying operating system was CentOS 6.3.

(0) Documentation
EMI2 Generic Installation Guide
EMI2 Topbdii
bdii queries (GRIDKA school)

(1) Repositories and Software
(a) EPEL:
wget http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
rpm -i epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
(b) EMI2:
rpm --import http://emisoft.web.cern.ch/emisoft/dist/EMI/2/RPM-GPG-KEY-emi
yum install yum-priorities
yum install yum-protectbase
wget http://emisoft.web.cern.ch/emisoft/dist/EMI/2/sl6/x86_64/base/emi-release-2.0.0-1.sl6.noarch.rpm
yum localinstall emi-release-2.0.0-1.sl6.noarch.rpm
yum install emi-bdii-top

(2) Configuration
cd /opt/glite/yaim
mkdir siteinfo
chmod 700 siteinfo
/opt/glite/yaim/bin/yaim -c -s /opt/glite/yaim/siteinfo/siteinfo-topbdii02.def -n BDII_top
The siteinfo.def for a topbdii is trivial:
BDII_HOST=topbdii.grid.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk (use alias)
SITE_NAME=UKI-LT2-IC-HEP
BDII_PASSWD=[redacted]
add SLAPD:ALL to /etc/hosts.allow

(3) Check bdii is running and install a monitoring cron job
/usr/bin/ldapsearch -x -h topbdii01.grid.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk:2170 -b mds-vo-name=local,o=grid
Just to keep and eye on the bdii: cron, script.