Note: This version of the VDT (1.2.0) is no longer supported. Feel free to look through the documentation and install it, but we cannot guarantee support for it. The current stable release is 2.0.0.

Globus Configuration Script

The Globus configuration script allows the user to configure certain important aspects the the Globus software, in particular:

GSI security
Gatekeeper daemon
GridFTP daemon
GRIS
Globus Jobmanager for Condor

The script configure_globus.sh is located in $VDT_LOCATION/vdt/setup directory. If run without any options the script will ask about configuring each of the items above. Alternatively, the user may only configure the items of interest by specifying one or more of the following command line options to the script:

--gsi
setup Grid Security (GSI)
--gatekeeper=y|n
enable or disable Globus Gatekeeper daemon
--gridftp=y|n
enable or disable Globus GridFTP daemon
--gris=y|n
enable or disable GRIS
--gris-auth=y|n
enable or disable authentication for the GRIS. When it is enabled you will need an LDAP service certificate.
--jobmanager-condor=y|n
enable or disable the job manager for Condor.

Because this script modifies important sytem files root access is generally required to run it. The exception is the --gsi option which, in case of a non-root install, will only need to modify files under the VDT installation directory.

During the VDT install process configure_globus.sh writes important messages to the VDT post-install README file ($VDT_LOCATION/post-install/README). It is a good idea to check it for messages about things that the script was not able to automatically configure, errors it encountered, etc.