Globus Online for HPSS

This is a guide on setup the Globus Online service to storge data on HPSS.

Requirements

• A working HPSS Frontend with HPSS Client software installed and configured.
• A working GridFTP Server with a valid Grid Host certificate. (GridKa Host certificate)
• A working HPSS-GridFTP-DSI compiled package
  • Notice: a HPSS-Fuse instead of DSI would also work.
• A working Connection to an LDAP Server to authorized the user locally on the GridFTP server.
• A Globus Online account if not already exists.
• A valid Grid User certificate.

Installation

Hostname: archive-tgftp.lsdf.kit.edu OS: SL 6.4

• Download and install Globus Connect server repository

# curl -LOs http://toolkit.globus.org/ftppub/globus-connect-server/globus-connect-server-repo-latest.noarch.rpm
# rpm --import http://www.globus.org/ftppub/globus-connect-server/RPM-GPG-KEY-Globus
# yum install globus-connect-server-repo-latest.noarch.rpm

• Install

# yum install globus-connect-server

• Configuration

Adapt the config files

/etc/globus-connect-server.conf
/var/lib/globus-connect-server/myproxy-server.conf

• Add the following to myproxy-server.conf

accepted_credentials "*"

Endpoint Creation

Now setup your Frontend GridFTP Server as an Endpoint for globus Online

# globus-connect-server-setup

• The globus-connect-server-setup asks you for your Globus Online account name and password.
• If you run globus-connect-server-setup many times you get this error message:

"You are not an admin of the MyProxy Delegation Service"

• • Solution: run as root:

# rm /var/lib/myproxy-oauth/myproxy-oauth.db