QCG Broker Client Installation

Requirements

• Packages requirements. All packages required by QCG-Broker client will be automatically installed by YUM during the installation of qcg-broker-client package.
  • Java (>= 1.5)
    
• trusted CA certificates To enable secure communication between client and QCG-Broker service set of trusted CA certificates must be copied either into the /etc/grid-security/certificates directory or configured for every user.

For the PL-Grid project: Install Polish Grid and PL-Grid Simple-CA certificates:

• Add appropriate YUM repositories

  cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/plgrid.repo << EOF
  [PLGRID-general]
  name=PLGRID general packages repository
  baseurl=http://software.plgrid.pl/packages/general/
  enabled=1
  metadata_expire=300
  gpgcheck=0
  EOF
  

cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/eugridpma.repo << EOF
[EUGRIDPMA-igtf]
name=EUGRIDPMA igtf repository
baseurl=https://dist.eugridpma.info/distribution/igtf/current
enabled=1
metadata_expire=300
gpgcheck=0

[EUGRIDPMA-fetch-crl]
name=EUGRIDPMA fetch-crl repository
baseurl=https://dist.eugridpma.info/distribution/util/fetch-crl/
enabled=1
metadata_expire=300
gpgcheck=0
EOF

• Install certificates

  yum install ca_PolishGrid
  yum install ca_PLGRID-SimpleCA
  

• Install certificate revocation list fetching utility

  yum install fetch-crl
  

• Get fresh CRLs now

  /usr/sbin/fetch-crl 
  

• Install cron job for it

  cat > /etc/cron.daily/fetch-crl.cron << EOF
  #!/bin/sh 
  /usr/sbin/fetch-crl
  EOF
  

chmod a+x /etc/cron.daily/fetch-crl.cron

Installation

The package is designed for Scientific Linux 5.x (recommended and tested version is 5.5). The installation process requires root privileges.

• Install PL-Grid or/and QCG repositories:
  • Official PL-Grid repository

    rpm -Uvh http://software.plgrid.pl/packages/repos/plgrid-repos-2010-2.noarch.rpm
    

  • QosCosGrid testing repository

    cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/qcg.repo << EOF
    [qcg]
    name=QosCosGrid YUM repository
    baseurl=http://fury.man.poznan.pl/qcg-packages/sl/x86_64/
    enabled=1
    gpgcheck=0
    EOF
    

• install QCG-Broker client using YUM Package Manager:

  yum install qcg-broker-client
  

• setup deployment configuration - all configuration variables are placed in /opt/plgrid/qcg/share/qcg-broker-client/client-deploy.prop file
  • client.deploy.dir - directory where the QCG-Broker client was installed (/opt/plgrid/qcg/share/qcg-broker-client). Please do not modify this property.
  • client.service.host - QCG-Broker service hostname
  • client.service.port - QCG-Broker service port
  • client.service.dn - QCG-Broker credential DN

    vim /opt/plgrid/qcg/qcg-broker/client/etc/qcg-broker-client.conf
    

• configure QCG-Broker command-line client

  /opt/plgrid/qcg/share/qcg-broker-client/config.sh
  

Usage

For the description how to use the QCG-Broker client please see the QCG-Broker User Guide.