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Homebrew Data Management clients

How do I install these formulae?

You need first to install the Homebrew tool. Then,

brew install cern-fts/dmc/<formula>

Or brew tap cern-fts/dmc and then brew install <formula>.

Example

brew tap cern-ft/dmc
brew install srm-ifce
gfal_srm_ifce_version

gfal2-python and gfal2-util

There are two options for installing these two components. They can be either installed via Homebrew, as the rest, or inside a Python virtualenv.

Homebrew

brew install gfal2-python
brew install gfal2-util

Note that there is no need to install all components manually. If you are just interested on gfal2-util, you can just do brew install gfal2-util and all the required dependencies will be downloaded, built and installed.

virtualenv

$ sudo easy_install pip
$ sudo pip install virtualenv
$ brew install gfal2
$ brew install boost-python
$ virtualenv gfal2
$ source gfal2/bin/activate
(gfal2) $ pip install "git+https://gitlab.cern.ch/dmc/gfal2-bindings.git@develop"
(gfal2) $ python -c 'import gfal2; print gfal2.__version__'
1.8.3
(gfal2) $ pip install "git+https://gitlab.cern.ch/dmc/gfal2-util.git@develop"
(gfal2) $ gfal-ls "file:///"
...

Help! I can't connect to secure endpoints

To connect to Grid endpoints normally a proxy is required, sometimes with the proper VO extensions. Additionally, these endpoints will present the client application a X509 certificate that prooves they are who they say they are. These certificates are signed by a trusted Certification Authority, whose certificates need to be present in the client machine.

So, basically, we need to fix two related issues

Install the trusted CA's

You will need to grab the required root certificates from the EGI Repository. For instance, if we want to access endpoints signed by CERN, you will need ca_CERN-GridCA-1.65.tar.gz and ca_CERN-Root-2-1.65.tar.gz.

Anyway, just for facilitate the setup, let's install all of them:

brew install wget
sudo su -
mkdir -p /etc/grid-security/certificates
cd /etc/grid-security/certificates/
wget -r -l1 --no-parent -nd --accept=.tar.gz "http://repository.egi.eu/sw/production/cas/1/current/tgz/"
for i in `ls *.tar.gz`; do tar xzf $i --strip-components=1; done
rm -vf robots.txt *.tar.gz

Now the Root certificates are installed under /etc/grid-security/certificates, where the tools can find them.

You can validate it works running voms-proxy-init (without --voms yet!). Remember to point the environment variables X509_USER_CERT and X509_USER_KEY to your Grid certificate and key, if they are not in the default area.

Configure VOMS

We can now create proxies, but not proxies with VO extensions. For that, we need to configure the VOMS. Luckily, this is really easy! Just need to download our convenience vomses file into $HOME/.voms/vomses

mkdir -p $HOME/.voms
wget http://grid-deployment.web.cern.ch/grid-deployment/dms/dmc/vomses -O $HOME/.voms/vomses
wget -O $HOME/.voms/vomses

Now try voms-proxy-init --voms <your-vo>, and you are good to go!

$ voms-proxy-init --voms dteam
Enter GRID pass phrase:
Your identity: /DC=ch/DC=cern/OU=...
Cannot find file or dir: /usr/local/etc/vomses
Creating temporary proxy ..................................... Done
Contacting  voms.hellasgrid.gr:15004 [/C=GR/O=HellasGrid/OU=hellasgrid.gr/CN=voms.hellasgrid.gr] "dteam" Done
Creating proxy ........................................... Done

Your proxy is valid until Fri Jul 31 03:34:08 2015
Error: verify failed.
Cannot verify AC signature!

$ voms-proxy-info --all
subject   : /DC=ch/DC=cern/OU=...
issuer    : /DC=ch/DC=cern/OU=...
identity  : /DC=ch/DC=cern/OU=...
type      : proxy
strength  : 1024 bits
path      : /tmp/x509up_uxxx
timeleft  : 11:59:43
key usage : Digital Signature, Key Encipherment
=== VO dteam extension information ===
VO        : dteam
subject   : /DC=ch/DC=cern/OU=...
issuer    : /C=GR/O=HellasGrid/OU=hellasgrid.gr/CN=voms.hellasgrid.gr
attribute : /dteam/Role=NULL/Capability=NULL
timeleft  : 11:59:39
uri       : voms.hellasgrid.gr:15004

Note that you can ignore the "Error: verify failed" message.

Let's verify our new proxy with the gfal2-util that we had installed!

$ source gfal2/bin/activate
(gfal2) $ gfal-ls gsiftp://dpmhead-rc.cern.ch/dpm/cern.ch/home
alice
atlas
cms
dteam
lhcb

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