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the installation of the VDT client 1.4.0 is described at http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/releases/1.4.0/installation.html and the important steps and additions are described here
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the installation uses the PACMAN manager which has to be installed first in the <install> directory
and source the setup script in the PACMAn directory
cd pacman-3.18.5
. setup.sh or source setup.csh
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using pacman, the VDT client installation (attention, takes 10 - 15 minutes) is prepared by:
cd <install>
mkdir VDT
cd VDT
pacman -get http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/vdt_140_cache:VDT-Client
in the course of the preparation, questions are asked and the correct answers are given in the following:
Do you want to add [http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/vdt_140_cache] to [trusted.caches]? y
the installation itself is started by
During installation, the license agreement has to be agreed to
VDT 1.4.0 installs a variety of software, each with its own license.
In order to continue, you must agree to the licenses.
You can view the licenses online at:
http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/licenses/1.4.0
After the installation has completed, you will also be able to
view the licenses in the "licenses" directory.
Do you agree to the licenses? [y/n]
by answering "yes". Also the installation location of the certification authority (CA) has to be specified
The VDT typically installs public certificates and signing policy files
for the well-known public CA's. This is necessary in order for you to
perform GSI authentication with any remote Grid services (that have
service/host certificates signed by these CA's).
For more information please refer to the VDT documentation:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/vdt/setup_ca.html
Where would you like to install CA files?
Choices:
l (local) - install into $VDT_LOCATION/globus/share/certificates
n (no) - do not install
to be "local".
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the local condor installation has to be prepared by changing the start-script in
<install>/VDT/condor/etc/examples/condor.boot
In the script, the MASTER variable has to point to
MASTER=<install>/VDT/condor/sbin/condor_master
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to support more than 100 simultaneous jobs to be run on OSG sites, in
<install>/VDT/condor/etc/condor_config
the following lines have to be inserted or updated
GRIDMANAGER_MAX_SUBMITTED_JOBS_PER_RESOURCE=5000
GRIDMANAGER_MAX_PENDING_SUBMITS_PER_RESOURCE=20
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initialize VDT client installation by executing the following script
source <install>/VDT/setup.(c)sh
export EDG_WL_LOCATION=<install>/VDT/edg or setenv EDG_WL_LOCATION <install>/VDT/edg
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start the local condor scheduler with user privileges with
<install>/VDT/condor/etc/examples/condor.boot start
