Note: This version of the VDT (1.3.8) 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 4 is run in its own container, not within Tomcat. Because we already have several known services that run within Tomcat, Globus 4 is running on a non-standard port: 9443 instead of 8443. If you wish to change this, just edit the globus-ws init script.
If you have Globus configured to submit jobs to Condor, the job
submission will fail unless you have a condor_config file in a
standard location (/etc/condor/condor_config,
~condor/condor_config). If CONDOR_CONFIG needs to be set to
find the condor_config file, it won't be set unless you edit the
condor.pm file by hand. This is because the portion of
Globus that does the job submission clears most of the environment
before the job submission. We hope to resolve this soon in
collaboration with the Globus folks.
The VOMS server is not included on RedHat 7 because it requires perl 5.8, where RedHat 7 uses the 5.6 series. It is unlikely that perl 5.6 support will be added in the future.
VOMS Admin 1.2.10-r0 contains a known bug for which we install a workaround. However, the workaround disables the automatic request clean-up feature. We hope to release a new version of the VDT with a new, fixed version of VOMS Admin before any automatic clean-ups would occur, so we don’t expect this to cause problems.
VOMS 1.6.7 does not work with user proxies from a Kerberized Certificate Authority (KCA), such as the one used at FermiLab.
The gLite CEMon is not supported on RedHat 7 and our current build does not run on Debian Linux or Fedora Core 4. We hope to add Debian and Fedora support in a future release, but RedHat 7 support is doubtful.
Also, CEMon expects to find a LCG Generic Information Provider script at /opt/glite/etc/glite-ce-ce-plugin/glite-ce-info, as documented in the CEMon instructions. If you install the VDT in any location other than /opt, and you want to use CEMon and the LCG GIP, you will still have to create the glite-ce-info symlink at the above location.