InstallDcacheExt

Installation of a dCache v1.9.5 headnode

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Hardware setup

• Virtual machine on dom0X
  • Describe specs

Software setup

• The machine is deployed with Quattor
• The template is based on a base machine and extended to automatize some dCache related things
  • The RPMs for dCache, pnfs, postgres,... are included
  • Some files are put with filecopy: storage-authzdb, grid-vorolemap, dcachesrm-gplazma.policy
  • local users and pool users are added

• After the installation following steps are done by hand to have dCache up and running InstallDcache195Ext

Backup of the pnfs database

• Olivier