Basic Setup for GT 4.1.2

This section describes initial setup for basic services that will provide a basic set of Grid services on one machine. The Quickstart Guide walks you through setting up basic services on multiple machines.

1. Setting Up File Transfers (GridFTP)

adapt info from quickstart - link to test info

2. Setting Up the Web Services Container (Java WS Core)

adapt info from quickstart - link to test info

make sure you include glossary reference to web service.

3. Setting Up Large Transfers (RFT)

configure the system to allow TCP/IP connections to postgres, adding a trust entry for our current host as globus user, create the rftDatabase, load the RFT schema, change the password in the jndi-config.xml file, restart the container to load the new RFT configuration and test by trying an RFT transfer

4. Setting Up Job Management (GRAM4)

setup sudo so the globus user can start jobs as a different user and test by running a simple job

5. Discovering and Monitoring Resources with the Index Service (MDS4)

adapt info from quickstart and test

make sure you include the glossary link to resource.

5.1. Auto-registration with the Default Index Service

talk about how by default, the ws services in the installation are automatically registered with the default index service

6. Visualizing Resources with WebMDS (MDS4)

adapt info from quickstart

7. Making Proxy Certificates Available with MyProxy

adapt info from quickstart

8. Setting Up on Multiple Machines

general info about multiple machines

9. Setting Up Clusters

from quickstart - general information about clusters? or should that stay in quickstart?

10. Establishing Cross-CA Trust

adapt info from quickstart

11. Where To Go From Here

adapt info from quickstart