This is the topic documenting the installation of the CE on C4. The installation procedure was started in week 24 of 2009.

repositories used

Mirror.ac.za was used for the OS and updates :

[sl-base]
name=SL 4 base
#baseurl=http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/46/$basearch/SL/RPMS/
#      ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/46/$basearch/SL/RPMS/
baseurl=http://scientificlinux.mirror.ac.za/4x/x86_64/SL/RPMS/
#mirrorlist=http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/mirrorlist/sl-base-46.txt
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-csieh file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-dawson file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-jpolok file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-cern

The CNAF repositories were used for the ig_gLite release :

#
# INFNGRID repositories
#

[ig_sl4]
name    = ig 3.1
baseurl = http://grid018.ct.infn.it/mrepo/ig_sl4-i386/RPMS.3_1_0/
enabled = 1
protect = 0

[ig_sl4_externals]
name    = ig 3.1 (externals)
baseurl = http://grid018.ct.infn.it/mrepo/ig_sl4-i386/RPMS.3_1_0_externals/
enabled = 1
protect = 0
#
# GILDA INFNGRID repositories
#

[gilda_sl4]
name    = gilda 3.1
baseurl = http://grid018.ct.infn.it/mrepo/gilda_sl4-i386/RPMS.app/
enabled = 1
protect = 0

procedure

Compatibility support libraries

The VM is a x86_64-based SL4.7 machine. First installed compatibility rpms

yum groupinstall compat-arch-support 

SGE RPMS

Downloaded and installed :

http://www.lip.pt/grid/sgeV61u3toSLC4/sge-ckpt-V61u3-1.i386.rpm 
http://www.lip.pt/grid/sgeV61u3toSLC4/sge-daemons-V61u3-1.i386.rpm 
http://www.lip.pt/grid/sgeV61u3toSLC4/sge-devel-V61u3-1.i386.rpm 
http://www.lip.pt/grid/sgeV61u3toSLC4/sge-docs-V61u3-1.i386.rpm 
http://www.lip.pt/grid/sgeV61u3toSLC4/sge-parallel-V61u3-1.i386.rpm 
http://www.lip.pt/grid/sgeV61u3toSLC4/sge-qmon-V61u3-1.i386.rpm 
http://www.lip.pt/grid/sgeV61u3toSLC4/sge-utils-V61u3-1.i386.rpm 
http://www.lip.pt/grid/sgeV61u3toSLC4/sge-V61u3-1.i386.rpm 

yum localinstall sge-*

Middleware and util metapackage installation

• Java, gLite and GILDA RPMS :
  • yum install java-1.5.0-sun-compat torque-2.1.9-4cri.slc4 ig_CE ig_BDII glite-SGE_utils gilda_utils
• yaim SGE bindings :

  • wget http://eticssoft.web.cern.ch/eticssoft/repository/org.glite/org.glite.yaim.sge-server/4.1.0/noarch/glite-yaim-sge-server-4.1.0-1.noarch.rpm 
    yum localinstall glite-yaim-sge-server-4.1.0-1.noarch.rpm

User and group configuration :

• Copy users and groups example files to /opt/glite/yaim/etc/gilda/

  cp /opt/glite/yaim/examples/ig-groups.conf /opt/glite/yaim/etc/gilda/
  cp /opt/glite/yaim/examples/ig-users.conf /opt/glite/yaim/etc/gilda/

• Append gilda users and groups definitions to /opt/glite/yaim/etc/gilda/ig-users.conf :

  cat /opt/glite/yaim/etc/gilda/gilda_ig-users.conf >> /opt/glite/yaim/etc/gilda/ig-users.conf
  cat /opt/glite/yaim/etc/gilda/gilda_ig-groups.conf >> /opt/glite/yaim/etc/gilda/ig-groups.conf

Configuration of site-info.def

• Copy ig-site-info.def template file provided by ig_yaim in to gilda dir and customize it

cp /opt/glite/yaim/examples/siteinfo/ig-site-info.def /opt/glite/yaim/etc/gilda/c4.def
cp -r  /opt/glite/yaim/examples/siteinfo/services /opt/glite/yaim/etc/gilda

c4.def is attached to this topic.

-- BruceBecker - 16 Jun 2009

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