2.2.1. Setting up Grid Community Toolkit (GCT) (Under construction)

Warning

Work in-progress. For now, instruction to access the grid storage system on unsupported machines are not complete.

To authenticate your machine to the grid, you need to

# Arch Linux from AUR using yay
yay -S gct

Requesting a host certificate for your machine, go to https://portal.ca.grid-support.ac.uk/cert_owner/requestHostCert.

2.2.2. Setting up VOMS Clients

If you work on machines supported by us, you can skip this part. This part needed to be done once per machine.

Warning

Work in-progress. For now, instruction to access the grid storage system on unsupported machines are not complete.

2.2.2.1. Installing the clients

You would need to install VOMS Clients by following the instruction in the VOMS Clients guide. The currently supported OS is either RHEL 6/7 or Debian 6 as of writing:

# RHEL
sudo yum install voms-clients-java
# Debian
sudo apt-get install voms-clients3
# Arch Linux from AUR using yay
yay -S voms-clients

2.2.2.2. Configuring VOMS trust anchors

Create these paths with the corresponding contents below:

# generated by running
$ head /etc/grid-security/vomsdir/souk.ac.uk/*
==> /etc/grid-security/vomsdir/souk.ac.uk/voms02.gridpp.ac.uk.lsc <==
/C=UK/O=eScience/OU=Oxford/L=OeSC/CN=voms02.gridpp.ac.uk
/C=UK/O=eScienceCA/OU=Authority/CN=UK e-Science CA 2B

==> /etc/grid-security/vomsdir/souk.ac.uk/voms03.gridpp.ac.uk.lsc <==
/C=UK/O=eScience/OU=Imperial/L=Physics/CN=voms03.gridpp.ac.uk
/C=UK/O=eScienceCA/OU=Authority/CN=UK e-Science CA 2B

==> /etc/grid-security/vomsdir/souk.ac.uk/voms.gridpp.ac.uk.lsc <==
/C=UK/O=eScience/OU=Manchester/L=HEP/CN=voms.gridpp.ac.uk
/C=UK/O=eScienceCA/OU=Authority/CN=UK e-Science CA 2B

2.2.2.3. Configuring VOMS server endpoints

Create these paths with the corresponding contents below:

# generated by running
$ head /etc/vomses/* 
==> /etc/vomses/souk.ac.uk-voms02.gridpp.ac.uk <==
"souk.ac.uk" "voms02.gridpp.ac.uk" "15519" "/C=UK/O=eScience/OU=Oxford/L=OeSC/CN=voms02.gridpp.ac.uk" "souk.ac.uk" "24"

==> /etc/vomses/souk.ac.uk-voms03.gridpp.ac.uk <==
"souk.ac.uk" "voms03.gridpp.ac.uk" "15519" "/C=UK/O=eScience/OU=Imperial/L=Physics/CN=voms03.gridpp.ac.uk" "souk.ac.uk" "24"

==> /etc/vomses/souk.ac.uk-voms.gridpp.ac.uk <==
"souk.ac.uk" "voms.gridpp.ac.uk" "15519" "/C=UK/O=eScience/OU=Manchester/L=HEP/CN=voms.gridpp.ac.uk" "souk.ac.uk" "24"

Jump to User credentials to continue your setup.