Documentation

We are collecting manuals here which didn't make it into the Book yet, or which describe workarounds which are not supposed to go into the Book ever.

Please also se our breakdown of the documentation by component.

Installation of dCache

• Laying out a new dCache instance.
• Yum Installation of dCache with on SL4.
• dCache site-info.def settings for with YAIM and dCacheConfigure.sh.
• Configuring dCache with dCacheConfigure.sh
• Installing Java in Sl4 for dCache.
• YAIM and SL4 Installing dCache with YAIM on SL4.
• Advanced YAIM and the site-info.def.
• SL4 and the grid-mapfile Installing the gridmap-file on SL4.

dCache 1.8 (SRM 2.2) deployment

• try out a full dCache 1.8 + Chimera inside a Virtual machine on your Desktop with dCacheToGo
• Installation details in addition to a regular one
• Download dCache 1.8
• Greig Cowans Testing Pages
• VO configuration (Atlas, LHCb) for PPS at IN2P3
• New administrative command on space reservation
• Optional new dCache interface to the HSM backends.
• RetentionPolicy and AccessLatency tags in the old PNFS tree subdirectories
• the outrageously complex configuration files and avoiding errors

FAQ

• dCache FAQ

HowTo

• Using dCache clients.
• dcacheVoms2Gplasma used to import Id's from VOMS server or grid-mapfile.
• dCache Log Files
• Customizing the Pool Info Web Pages. This allows to split the unstructured pool web pages into PoolManager groups or user defined groups.
• Move Files Around. The JPyton interface allows to copy files within dCache.
• Format of the Pool rep ls command output.
• ChimeraSetup HowTo
• ACL in dCache HowTo
• HandsOnPostgreSQL
• How to configure native non-secure http read access for world readable file.
• dCache's xrootd implementation
• Example for a read-only , write-only pool selection configuration.
• How to setup different pools for different subdirectories in pnfs.
• How to setup RemoteJavaMonitoring with JMX
• How to fix the lcg-del doesn't work problem.
• How to use the lcg_util commands with dcache.
• Handling checksums in dCache.
• Information system debuging .
• Checking host certificates
• Hands on companion database CompanionDB.
• How to use the admin interface.
• How to setup the SRM space reservation including the pool manager.
• fixing pnfs troubles
• Renaming PNFS directories

Management

• Management Scripts

More

• Contributed Documentation
• An evaluation Tape Storage Manager
• Tape Backend handled in dCache
• Changing OSM tags to Enstore Tags for non tape files
• Developer's Corner contains information targeted at developers.

*External Links?

External Sources Of Information

• Cleaning Postgresql Databases (vacuuming)
• Enstore and dCache User Documentation
• VDT
• GridPP Wiki
• HEP Sysadmin Wiki
• USATLAS dCache System
• USCMS dCache Usage
• Storage Wiki in Bari
• PNFS home page
• A dCache Howto which was written in the process of writing YAIM for dCache, rather old but most parts still apply.
• gLite installation of a dCache with Chimera (mostly English)
• DCache and Pool Installation for NGDF
• Random dCache failures in SAM can be casued by many things so multiple pages exist on this subject 1 2 and 3.

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Last Modified : Mon Jun 9 18:40:11 2008 by Martin

Last Modified : Sat Nov 22 08:20:01 2008 by Owen