middleware:Glite/31/service

Top Level

There are some "top level" services, provided for interactions between providers sites and users.

1. "top level BDII" - Berkeley Database Information Index is a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol server which collect the data from the sites information services.
2. Replica Catalog - keep track where data are stored.
3. Workload Management System (WMS) - a set of Grid middleware components responsible for the tasks distribution and management across Grid resources, in such a way that applications are conveniently, efficiently and effectively executed. The core component is the Workload Manager (WM), whose purpose is to accept and satisfy requests for job management coming from its clients.

Site-level

BDII

to install BDII, use the following procedure:

• download the glite-BDII.repo
• install package glite-BDII with yum
• configure site-info.def

cd /etc/yum.repos.d
 
wget http://grid-deployment.web.cern.ch/grid-deployment/glite/repos/glite-BDII.repo
 
yum -y install glite-BDII
 
## glite site BDII 
# For the configuration of the Site BDII following variables have to be set in the site-info.def:
 
CE_HOST
DCACHE_ADMIN ## when using dCache as SE
SITE_EMAIL
SITE_LAT
SITE_LONG
SITE_NAME 
BDII_HOST
SITE_BDII_HOST
BDII_REGIONS
BDII_CE_URL
BDII_SE_URL ## when a SE is available on the Site
 
# The configuration is done by
 
/opt/glite/yaim/bin/yaim -c -s "site-info.def" -n BDII_site

MON-RGMA

The current Reference Installation does not use any of the services provided by the MON component, in particular it doesn't make use of RGMA at all. If your site needs it, use the following documentation.

to install the MON component, use the following procedure:

• download the file glite-MON.repo
• install the package glite-MON with yum
• configure site-info.def

cd /etc/yum.repos.d
 
wget http://grid-deployment.web.cern.ch/grid-deployment/glite/repos/glite-MON.repo
 
yum -y install glite-MON
 
## glite MonBox 
# For the configuration of the MonBox following variables have to be set in the site-info.def:
 
APEL_DB_PASSWORD
CE_HOST
GRIDICE_SERVER_HOST
MON_HOST
MYSQL_PASSWORD
SITE_NAME
SITE_BDII_HOST 
 
# The configuration is done by
/opt/glite/yaim/bin/yaim -c -s "site-info.def" -n MON