---
name: "arcinfo"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "nordugrid-arc-client"
version: "7.0.0-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/arcinfo"
---

# arcinfo(1)

ARC Info

## NAME

arcinfo - ARC Info

## DESCRIPTION

### Usage:

-

  arcinfo \[OPTION...\] \[resource ...\]

The arcinfo command is used for obtaining the status of computing resources on the Grid.

### Target endpoint selection:

- **-C**, **--computing-element**=*ce*

  computing element hostname or a complete endpoint URL

- **-Y**, **--registry**=*registry*

  registry service URL with optional specification of protocol

- **-Q**, **--info-endpoint-type**=*type*

  require information query using the specified information endpoint type.

-

  Special value 'NONE' will disable all resource information queries and the following brokering. Allowed values are: ldap.nordugrid, ldap.glue2, arcrest and internal.

- **-T**, **--submission-endpoint-type**=*type*

  only get information about executon targets that support this job submission endpoint type.

-

  Allowed values are: arcrest and internal.

### Brokering and filtering:

- **-R**, **--rejectdiscovery**=*URL*

  skip the service with the given URL during service discovery

### Output format modifiers:

- **-l**, **--long**

  long format (more information)

### Behaviour tuning:

- **--no-authentication**

  do not perform any authentication for opened connections

- **--x509-authentication**

  perform X.509 authentication for opened connections

- **--token-authentication**

  perform token authentication for opened connections

- **--systemca**

  force using CA certificates configuration provided by OpenSSL

- **--gridca**

  force using CA certificates configuration for Grid services (typically IGTF)

### Other actions:

- **-P**, **--listplugins**

  list the available plugins

### Application Options:

- **-h**, **--help**

  Show help options

- **-z**, **--conffile**=*filename*

  configuration file (default ~/.arc/client.conf)

- **-t**, **--timeout**=*seconds*

  timeout in seconds (default 20)

- **-d**, **--debug**=*debuglevel*

  FATAL, ERROR, WARNING, INFO, VERBOSE or DEBUG

- **-v**, **--version**

  print version information

## EXTENDED DESCRIPTION

The **arcinfo** command is used to get the status and information about computing elements. You can specify the URLs of CE endpoint with the **--computing-element** option, or by just listing them as arguments. The **--registry** flag can be used to specify an registry server which should be queried for CEs endpoints.

Detailed information about queried computing services can be obtained by specifying the **--long** flag.

## FILES

- **~/.arc/client.conf**

  Some options can be given default values by specifying them in the ARC client configuration file. By using the **--conffile** option a different configuration file can be used than the default.

## AUTHOR

ARC software is developed by the NorduGrid Collaboration  (http://www.nordugrid.org), please consult the AUTHORS file distributed with  ARC. Please report bugs and feature requests to http://bugzilla.nordugrid.org

## COPYRIGHT

APACHE LICENSE Version 2.0

## SEE ALSO

[**arccat**(1)](/arccat/1.md), [**arcclean**(1)](/arcclean/1.md), [**arccp**(1)](/arccp/1.md), [**arcget**(1)](/arcget/1.md), [**arckill**(1)](/arckill/1.md), [**arcls**(1)](/arcls/1.md), [**arcmkdir**(1)](/arcmkdir/1.md), [**arcproxy**(1)](/arcproxy/1.md), [**arcrenew**(1)](/arcrenew/1.md), [**arcresume**(1)](/arcresume/1.md), [**arcrm**(1)](/arcrm/1.md), [**arcstat**(1)](/arcstat/1.md), [**arcsub**(1)](/arcsub/1.md), [**arcsync**(1)](/arcsync/1.md), [**arctest**(1)](/arctest/1.md)