[THEGrid] OSG Provisioning Web Home

[Alan Sill]

Hi all,

The Open Science Grid Provisioning Activity is just getting started to 
prepare for Deployment, which patches our timescale.  This is the 
generalization from Integration testing that I have referred to in our 
meetings.

Initial Provisioning home pages are at:

http://osg.ivdgl.org/twiki/bin/view/Provisioning/WebHome

Note that as with all of the twiki pages used by OSG, you will have to 
either register or just enter empty fields in the user name and 
password fields to gain access as a guest.  If you plan to visit OSG 
pages often, it may be best to register (enter empty fields as above to 
be taken to a registration page) and allow your browser to remember 
username and passwords for these pages for you so you can avoid the 
logon dialog on each page.

A volunteer to work on OSG provisioning for our production resources at 
TTU would be appreciated.  Other useful twiki pages can be reached by 
using the sidebar on the left-hand side of the above pages and clicking 
around.  One of the most useful pages is the installation guide for the 
current (integration test) versions at:

http://osg.ivdgl.org/twiki/bin/view/Integration/

You may also want to read separately about the Virtual Data Toolkit 
components, including the useful VDT-Client (which can be installed 
either as root or as non-root locally if you want to use it on a system 
for which you do not have root logon privileges, very useful):

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/vdt/

This makes use of the package manager pacman to do its installations.  
Links to pacman and getting started with the VDT asre on the above 
site.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Alan

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