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Installation Guide 5.6

Verifying Globus Installation

As GridWay relies on Globus services, it is assumed that a Globus grid infrastructure has been installed and configured.

Pre-WS tests

You can perform the following tests to verify your Globus pre-WS installation, and to ensure that it will work with GridWay. Here we assume you have some resource (worker node front-end) where the Globus container is already initialized (in this case is gilda-ce.rediris.es please change where appropriate for your tests):

WS tests

You can perform the following tests to verify your Globus WS installation, and to ensure that it will work with GridWay:

Note
Change localhost to the name of the host your want to test.
  1. Submission test:
     $ globusrun-ws -submit -F localhost -s -c /bin/uname -a 
    You should see the output of the /bin/uname -a command (along with other information about submission progress).
  2. File transfer test:
    $ globus-url-copy file:///etc/hosts gsiftp://localhost/tmp/hosts1
    $ globus-url-copy gsiftp://localhost/tmp/hosts1 file:///tmp/hosts2
    The contents of files /etc/hosts, /tmp/hosts1 and /tmp/hosts2 should be identical.
  3. Information retrieval test:
    $ wsrf-query -s https://localhost:8443/wsrf/services/DefaultIndexService
    You should see a lot of information in XML format.
Note
XML documents from wsrf-query should not contain any DEBUG messages. SOAP Message Logging for the client tools has to be disabled in $GLOBUS_LOCATION/log4j.properties.

If a binary distribution of the Globus Toolkit is installed, you may be required to manually install globus_core (used to detect the compiler and platform settings of the computer that the Toolkit is installed on). The following command can be used to perform this operation:

$ $GLOBUS_LOCATION/sbin/gpt-build -nosrc <flavor> 

More information about this procedure is available (here).

Required Software

GridWay is distributed as a source package, required software to compile it:

Optional

Installing GridWay

You can install GridWay in two different ways:

  1. Single-user installation. GridWay will be installed configured and executed by each user. In this case, neither the installation nor the configuration require priveledge access to the system. This installation mode will be useful if you want to set up a personal queue, or for testing purposes.
  2. Multiple-user installation. GridWay will be installed, and configured by the system manager. Regular users are able to submit, control and monitor their jobs from a front-end (GridWay server host) or from client hosts. This installation mode is recommended for production use.

Next sections describe in detail the installation process for these two cases.

Single-User Mode Installation

In this scenario, GridWay is installed by each end-user in his client host.

Login as your user account and follow these steps:

Option Description
--prefix Sets final GridWay installation dir. Defaults to /usr/local/gw.
--with-flavor=flavor The configure script will try to detect the flavor (eg. gcc32dbg) of the Globus toolkit installed in your system. However, if the configure script is not able to detect it, specify it with this option.
--disable-drmaa Don't build drmaa support. Default is enabled.
--enable-drmaa-ruby Build ruby drmaa support. Default is disabled.
--enable-nordugrid Build support for nordugrid. Default is disabled.
--enable-ldap Build ldap support. Default is disabled.
--enable-ssh Build ssh support. Default is disabled.
--disable-prews Don't build pre-web-services support. Default is enabled.
--disable-ws Don't build web-services support. Default is enabled.
--enable-jsdl Does compile jsdl support. Default is enabled. Disabled for GT builds.
--disable-gridftp Does not compile gridftp mad. Default is enabled.
--with-db=path_to_db Specify the Berkeley Database path to build accounting support.
--enable-globus-scheme Install GridWay inside $GLOBUS_LOCATION. Default is disabled. Enabled for GT builds.
--with-tests Install tests

Multiple-User Mode Installation

In this scenario, the installation of GridWay is performed by the system manager and the users are able to submit, control and monitor their jobs from a front-end (GridWay server host) or from client hosts, which may not require a GridWay/Globus installation. This means that there is one GridWay installation for each organization that provides support for multiple intra-organization users.

Important
The instructions here described assumes that you are going to install GridWay in its own directory ($GW_LOCATION, e.g. /opt/gridway/5.6.1). Also it is assumed that the installation, configuration and service execution will be performed by an special account (gwadmin).GridWay can be also installed within the Globus Toolkit tree. To do this you have to use the flag --enable-globus-scheme when calling configure script and set the prefix to $GLOBUS_LOCATION. In this case, the gwadmin user will be the user account that performed the Globus Toolkit installation. When you install it this way you also have to note that $GW_LOCATION/var and $GW_LOCATION/etc directories will be $GLOBUS_LOCATION/var/gridway and $GLOBUS_LOCATION/etc/gridway.
Note that GridWay daemon SHOULD NOT be run as root. Only part of the installation will require privileged access.

Login as root account and follow the next steps:

  1. All of the GridWay users must be members of the same UNIX group, <gwgroup>. We recommend to create a new group (call gwusers, for example), and assure that all GridWay user accounts are members of this new group.
  2. The GridWay administrator account, <adminuser>, can be an existing administrative login or a new login. We recommend creating a new account for the GridWay administration user (call gwadmin, for example). This account will own all of the files in the GridWay installation, all of the daemons in the GridWay execution and it can be used to configure GridWay once it is installed. Primary group of <adminuser> should be <gwgroup>.
    DO NOT use root account for the GridWay administrator account.
  3. Download the distribution file to the installation directory, for example your /opt/gridway directory
  4. Unpack the distribution file and change ownership:
    # tar xzf gridway_5.6.1.tgz
    # chown -R gwadmin:gwusers /opt/gridway
    # chmod 755 /opt/gridway
    Become GridWay administrator user, and change to gridway_5.6.1 directory:
    # su gwadmin
    $ cd gridway_5.6.1
  5. Set up Globus development environment:
    $ source $GLOBUS_LOCATION/etc/globus-devel-env.sh
    or
    $ . $GLOBUS_LOCATION/etc/globus-devel-env.csh
    depending on the shell you are using.
  6. Run configure to set up GridWay installation. Check above for possible options or just type
    ./configure OPTIONS
  7. Run make:
    $ make
  8. Run make install:
    $ make install
  9. Once installed, you should have the following directory tree in your GridWay location directory:
        $GW_LOCATION/
            |
            +--- bin/       executables
            |
            +--- etc/       gwd.conf and job_template.default configuration files
            |
            +--- share/     Include examples and [Optionally] documentation
            |
            +--- include/   header files
            |
            +--- lib/       compiled libraries
            |
            +--- libexec/   wrapper and monitor scripts
            |
            +--- test/      test suite [Optional]
            |
            +--- var/       lock, port and log files
            |
            +--- xml_schema/ schema for xml output validation
  10. The /etc/sudoers file of the sudo command should include the following
    ...
    # User alias specification
    Runas_Alias     GWUSERS = %gwusers
    # GridWay entries
    gwadmin ALL=(GWUSERS)     NOPASSWD: /opt/gridway/5.6.1/bin/gw_em_mad_prews *
    gwadmin ALL=(GWUSERS)     NOPASSWD: /opt/gridway/5.6.1/bin/gw_em_mad_ws *
    gwadmin ALL=(GWUSERS)     NOPASSWD: /opt/gridway/5.6.1/bin/gw_em_mad_ssh *
    gwadmin ALL=(GWUSERS)     NOPASSWD: /opt/gridway/5.6.1/bin/gw_tm_mad_ftp *
    gwadmin ALL=(GWUSERS)     NOPASSWD: /opt/gridway/5.6.1/bin/gw_tm_mad_dummy *
    gwadmin ALL=(GWUSERS)     NOPASSWD: /opt/gridway/5.6.1/bin/gw_tm_mad_ssh *
    gwadmin ALL=(GWUSERS)     NOPASSWD: /opt/globus/4.2.1/bin/grid-proxy-info *

Usually sudo clears all environment variables for security reasons. However MADs need the GW_LOCATION and GLOBUS_LOCATION (and GLOBUS_TCP_PORT_RANGE if existing) variables to be set. To preserve those variables in the MAD environment, add the following line to your “sudoers” file:

Defaults>GWUSERS env_keep="GW_LOCATION GLOBUS_LOCATION GLOBUS_TCP_PORT_RANGE"

The following line shouldn't be in the sudoers file, otherwise gridway could not use sudo as it will ask for a tty:
Defaults requiretty

Please refer to the sudo manual page for more information. Additionally you can configure your drivers environment by using the gwrc interface (see Section “MAD Environment Configuration”). To test the sudo command configuration try to execute a MAD as a user in the gwusers group, for example:

$ sudo -u gwuser /opt/gridway/5.6.1/bin/gw_em_mad_prews
Following previous steps, the end-users must login to the GridWay server host to be able to execute GridWay commands and use the DRMAA libraries.

Additionally, client hosts, that are not required to have GridWay/Globus installed, could be deployed to remotely interface to the GridWay server host. In such a case, user accounts and home directories must be shared between the GridWay server and the client hosts, via for example NIS and NFS; and $GW_LOCATION directory should be readable on all client hosts. The $GW_LOCATION directory may be available via for example NFS by exporting $GW_LOCATION from GridWay server, creating the directory in the client hosts, changing its ownership to gwadmin:gwusers and mounting the $GW_LOCATION directory exported by the GridWay server on the $GW_LOCATION of the client hosts.

Following those steps, a user logged in a client hosts is able to interface to the GridWay daemon in the GridWay server host. However, the grid-proxy-init command must be executed in the server host in order to create a proxy by, for example, executing:

$ ssh <GridWay server> grid-proxy-init

Platform Notes

GridWay has been run on the following platforms:

Fedora Core

Problems have been reported on Fedora Core platforms when using 32 bit JSDK binaries on AMD64 architectures.

Debian / Ubuntu Testing

No known issues.

Mac OS X

No known issues. Tested on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).

Solaris 10

No known issues.

Other Linux/UNIX flavors

GridWay should run smoothly on any linux based distribution and it is also likely to work on any unix based operating system, although it just have been tested in the aforementioned platforms.