DIRAC Operations Tutorial

Plan of the tutorial

• Preparation of the VirtualBox VM
• Preparation of the DIRAC service host
• Installation of the minimal DIRAC service
• Installation of the Framework DIRAC services
• Installation of the WMS services
• Submit jobs
• Make jobs execute on an SSH Computing Element

Preparation of the VirtualBox VM__

VirtualBox Preferences

• In VirtualBox Preferences -> Network -> Host-only Networks add vboxnet0 interface
• Import SLC6_tutorial_0.4.ova VM image (http://diracgrid.org/files/tutorial/SLC6_tutorial_0.4.ova)
• In VM Settings General -> Advanced set Shared Clipboard and Drag'n'drop to bidirectional
• In VM Settings Network Adapter 1 set to NAT, Adapter 2 set to Host-only Adapter Name: vboxnet0
• In VM Settings Shared Folders it can be convenient to define one shared folder

Preparation of the DIRAC service host

• Start the VM and login as root, the su dirac

• Check the host accessibility by ssh:

  $ ifconfig

  Note IP address of the eth1 interface, e.g. 192.168.56.101 From the host terminal

  $ ssh [email protected]

• Follow instructions in /home/dirac/Tutorial/README file to prepare the host

Installation of the minimal DIRAC service

• Edit install_minimal.cfg configuration file

• Install minimal set of the DIRAC services with:

  $ ./install_site install_minimal.cfg

  Hint: Populate /opt/dirac/.installCache with files in /home/dirac/Externals