DCache

This is the central article devoted to the dCache Administration Workshop during the GridKa School in 2012.

Time Table

11:00	Welcome And Overview, held by Doris Ressmann A welcome and overview to the course.
11:15	Introduction To dCache, held by Christoph Anton Mitterer Gives an overview on dCache, its history, future and application areas, its basic functionality and special features, its structure, main components, databases, protocols and data access model as well as typical cluster setups.
12:15	dCache Within Grids Gives some brief notes on grid-specific concepts, techniques, tools and clients that are important for using dCache within a grid (for example the LCG) and that will be referenced in later chapters.
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Installation (with exercises), held by Doris Ressmann Describes the typical installation-procedure for a dCache cluster, including its external dependencies, the core-services and the file hierarchy provider, the creation of pools as well as the configuration system.
15:00	Coffee break
15:30	Pool Management And Pool Selection (with exercises), held by Oleg Tsigenov Covers some of the concepts and means of selecting pools for client read- and write-accesses as well as their configuration.
16:00	Access Control (with exercises), held by Christoph Anton Mitterer Gives a basic overview on the main access control systems within dCache as well as their configuration.
18:30	End of the workshop

Template:Slides (dCache, 2012)

Links

The dcache.org main page is the starting point for all interests about dCache. Either searching for documentation or support, news or source code, everything can be found there.

Acknowledgement

We want to thank Angela Poschlad and Andreas Petzold for providing server infrastructure and supporting us whenever needed. Many thanks to the dCache developer team for assisting on open questions.
A special "Thank you" to D-Grid and the HGF-Alliance Physics on the Terascale for funding.