I suppose, that this step is not so urgent to create some sophisticated synchronization mechanisms. It checks if a new configuration was uploaded. If so, it creates the new configuration file and submits it to the squid . Scheme of the configuration system Data file Data about cache servers are stored in a central file tencache.cfg . It is a text file in fixed format.
Every field is put on a separate line.
IP IP address of the proxy cache. Field name must be the first one for every proxy cache in data file. Only the first three fields are obligatory - name , IP and type . It does not make sense to centraly create and distribute the whole configuration of every core cache. The core caches are serving their local academic communities, which means there are many specific configuration commands.