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SMSCG Infrastructure installation instruction

SMSCG specific services:

The SMSCG infrastructure is composed of the following services:

• SMSCG-CE: Computing interfaces. It provides the necessary services to integrate computing resources belonging to a given site within the SMSCG infrastrucutre. It is composed by an ARC server installation (Grid Manager, GridFTP, BDII), nagios monitoring plugins, SGAS accounting client interface.
• SMSCG-UI: User Interface. It provides the basic client tools to interact with the SMSCG infrasturcture (job submissiona and control, basic data handling, slcs credential and voms-proxy management). It is composed by and ARC User Interface installation, slcs and voms client tools.
• Monitoring system. It provides an aggregated view on the status of the infrastructure for both end-users and site administrators.
• Nagios monitoring. The SMSCG infrastrucutre is monitored using nagios plugins.
• Accounting system. Accounting informations are collected in a central SGAS accounting repository.
• Information Index Service.  A central information index service collects addresses of all SMSCG computing and data endpoint. SMSCG-UI points to one or more Indexing services for the resource matching as part of the job submission process.

Deployment Scenario for a Site

A site joining the SMSCG infrastructure could implement any combination of the following scenarion:

• Integrate local computing resource in the SMSCG infrastructure (SMSCG-CE)
• Provide access to the SMSCG infrastructure for local users (SMSCG-UI)

For more information please consult the SMSCG infrastructure description.

Installation instructions

• Install SMSCG_CE
• Install SMSCG_UI

Please consult the operational guidelines and troubleshooting for fine tuning of the SMSCG infrastructure services.