Installation of GridWay 5.6.1

Documentation ¶

The following guides are available:

Tests ¶

All necessary tests for three hosts (dgsi.zah.uni-heidelberg.de, mintaka.ari.uni-heidelberg.de, titan.ari.uni-heidelberg.de) are described following. If you like to use more hosts, use  AstroGridTest ( SVN  PDF) for testing.

Regardless of the method: Use hosts for GridWay, only, if they have passed all tests!

Pre-WS Tests ¶

Authorization Test ¶

Submission Test ¶

File Transfer Test ¶

WS Tests ¶

Submission Test ¶

Information Retrieval Test ¶

Debug Test ¶

Hint: OK, if there is no output!

Add User GridWay ¶

Hint: On Mintaka not necessary, because user "gwadmin" already exists!

Install GridWay ¶

Download ¶

Complete Universal User Profile ¶

Hint: On Mintaka not available and not necessary, because variables already set!

Configuration ¶

Compile and Install ¶

Check Files ¶

Set Sudo ¶

Hint: Sudoers allow particular users to run various commands as the root user without needing the root password.

Set Up GridWay ¶

Get version ¶

Hint: Never run gwd as root!

Get Version

Test Run ¶

Edit gwd.conf ¶

Final Run ¶

After a few seconds:

After a few minutes:

Troubleshooting ¶

Hints ¶

Login ¶

or

Watch log files ¶

Stop GridWay daemon ¶

Remove lock file ¶

Exclude problematic hosts ¶

Restart GridWay Daemon ¶


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Klaus Rieger