Globus

Globus is a toolkit for transferring data. Detail are found on their website: Globus Toolkit

Configuration on Taro

Software is installed from RPM, but configuration is still to be done.

Add a user

Example of how to add a user to the globus system.

su - -s /bin/sh myproxy
-sh-3.2$ whoami
myproxy
-sh-3.2$ 
-sh-3.2$ PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin
-sh-3.2$ myproxy-admin-adduser -c "Maurik Holtrop" -l maurik
...
Certificate subject is:
/O=Grid/OU=GlobusTest/OU=simpleCA-taro.unh.edu/OU=local/CN=Maurik Holtrop
-sh-3.2$exit
root@taro:~>grid-mapfile-add-entry -dn "/O=Grid/OU=GlobusTest/OU=simpleCA-taro.unh.edu/OU=local/CN=Maurik Holtrop" -ln maurik
Modifying /etc/grid-security/grid-mapfile ...
/etc/grid-security/grid-mapfile does not exist... Attempting to create /etc/grid-security/grid-mapfile
New entry:
"/O=Grid/OU=GlobusTest/OU=simpleCA-taro.unh.edu/OU=local/CN=Maurik Holtrop" maurik
(1) entry added
root@taro:~>

Add an iptable exception

iptables -I INPUT 8 -p tcp --dport 7512 -j ACCEPT

Installation steps

Steps performed on 2015/02/15

• Update the globus toolkit from website instructions, starting with the downloaded rpm.
• Follow steps in:Quick Start
  • Note: The myproxy etc have duplicates as shown by: "yum --showduplicates list myproxy | expand", this causes library version conflicts.
  • Install the gt6 version with: "yum install myproxy-6.1.8-1.el5+gt6 myproxy-server-6.1.8-1.el5+gt6 myproxy-admin-6.1.8-1.el5+gt6"
• Install the simple certificates: globus-simple-ca globus-gsi-cert-utils-progs
  • Now /usr/local/globus-5.0.5/bin/grid-cert-diagnostics shows a proper cert.