Hi Catalin,
it works for northgrid, thanks.
Cheers,
Robert
On 20/01/15 14:12, Catalin Condurache wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The regional UK VO repositories have been setup as described in the previous email.
> For uploading stuff and subsequently maintaining the repositories:
>
> - the VOMS Role=lcgadmin has been enabled for all these VOs for GSI access on cvmfs-upload01.gridpp.rl.ac.uk server
>
> - using the above credentials, gsiscp and gsissh connections will land authorised people in /home/londongridsgm (or /home/scotgridsgm or /home/southgridsgm or /home/northgridsgm) directory; for some technicalities the CVMFS area is /home/londongridsgm/cvmfs_repo (or appropriate) where they should be able to upload (using gsiscp) files / tarballs (that are part of the directory) and then unpack them there.
>
> - when using gsissh / gsiscp, one needs to use port 1975 ('gsissh -p 1975 cvmfs-upload01.gridpp.rl.ac.uk')
>
>
>
> Please try to add some content in the CVMFS areas using this method and let me know if successful or not.
> We’ll then continue and finalise the last bits of configuration to make the repositories accessible at WN level.
>
> Regards,
> Catalin
>
>
>
>
> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alessandra Forti
> Sent: 15 January 2015 15:07
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: CVMFS for regional testbed VOs
>
> The default role for software maintainance is usually lcgadmin if you can enable it.
>
> cheers
> alessandra
>
> On 15/01/2015 14:27, Catalin Condurache wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As it was eventually agreed the following CVMFS repositories will be created
>
> /cvmfs/londongrid.gridpp.ac.uk
> /cvmfs/scotgrid.gridpp.ac.uk
> /cvmfs/southgrid.gridpp.ac.uk
> /cvmfs/northgrid.gridpp.rl.ac.uk
>
> About people maintaining the repositories, there is an appetite to enable VOMS roles for authorization to maintain a repository. I haven’t tried extensively before (but I have a recipe and have done few tests), but I’d give it a go. Question is: which is the role for each VO to be enabled for this operation. Probably there is an identical role, but let me know for each VO please.
>
> Regards,
> Catalin
>
>
> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Peter Gronbech
> Sent: 15 January 2015 14:20
> To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: CVMFS for regional testbed VOs
>
> Hi Catalin,
> We are happy to follow the naming convention you suggest ie
> /cvmfs/southgrid.gridpp.ac.uk
>
> Thanks Pete
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> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Catalin Condurache
> Sent: 13 January 2015 15:24
> To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: CVMFS for regional testbed VOs
>
> Hi Daniela,
>
> Indeed I incline to go for ‘gridpp.ac.uk’ domain which is already configured within UK and requires the least or none effort.
>
> As for the repo name, would /cvmfs/londongrid.gridpp.ac.uk (or /cvmfs/northgrid.gridpp.ac.uk etc) be satisfactory (my first choice)?
>
> Other options are /cvmfs/vo.scotgrid.gridpp.ac.uk or /cvmfs/london.gridpp.ac.uk, but anyway I’d like to have consistency among all these regional VOs repos, so need to decide once for all.
>
> Regards,
> Catalin
>
>
> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Daniela Bauer
> Sent: 13 January 2015 14:25
> To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: CVMFS for regional testbed VOs
>
> Hi Catalin,
> I prefer the gridpp.ac.uk<http://gridpp.ac.uk> simply because these are truly regional VOs (there won't be any e.g. northgrid in London), but given the small user base and scope of these VOs we should just go ahead with whatever is easiest to setup.
> Cheers,
> Daniela
>
> On 13 January 2015 at 10:05, Catalin Condurache <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Following a short email exchange with Alessandra re: CVMFS space for vo.northgrid.ac.uk<http://vo.northgrid.ac.uk>, it emerged the idea to create and maintain a (small) CVMFS infrastructure that would serve mainly the UK regional VOs (vo.southgrid.ac.uk<http://vo.southgrid.ac.uk> vo.northgrid.ac.uk<http://vo.northgrid.ac.uk> vo.scotgrid.ac.uk<http://vo.scotgrid.ac.uk> vo.londongrid.ac.uk<http://vo.londongrid.ac.uk>) separated from the 'egi.eu<http://egi.eu>' CVMFS domain configuration.
>
> One option would be to keep them under the already existing (and configured everywhere in the UK, so no extra work needed!) 'gridpp.ac.uk<http://gridpp.ac.uk>' CVMFS domain (just to decide on the repo names i.e. /cvmfs/northgrid.gridpp.ac.uk<http://northgrid.gridpp.ac.uk> or /cvmfs/north.gridpp.ac.uk<http://north.gridpp.ac.uk> or /cvmfs/vo.northgrid.gridpp.ac.uk<http://vo.northgrid.gridpp.ac.uk> or /cvmfs/vo.north.gridpp.ac.uk<http://vo.north.gridpp.ac.uk>).
>
> But also a new CVMFS domain 'ac.uk<http://ac.uk>' could be defined (but which would need some extra work for implementation and configuration at participating sites) with more suggestive repo names i.e. /cvmfs/vo.northgrid.ac.uk<http://vo.northgrid.ac.uk> or /cvmfs/northgrid.ac.uk<http://northgrid.ac.uk>
>
> In any case RAL could act as Stratum-0 and Stratum-1 for these repositories, but probably we'd need another UK site to volunteer to host a Stratum-1 for failover purposes.
>
> As there are already requests to setup repos for londongrid and northgrid VOs already, this needs to be discussed and decided asap, via email or maybe today's Ops meeting?
>
> Let me know of your opinions!
>
> Regards,
> Catalin
>
>
>
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