SPRACE CMS Operation

Useful commands for SPRACE site upkeep

Starting and Stopping Services

1. On spdc00:
   • /opt/pnfs/bin/pnfs [start | stop]
   • /opt/d-cache/bin/dcache-core [start | stop]
2. On spraid:
   • /opt/d-cache/bin/dcache-core [start | stop]
   • /opt/d-cache/bin/dcache-pool [start | stop]

To start dCache, follow these commands in order (choosing "start"). To stop, reverse the order of the commands (start on spraid, then spdc00)

Phedex:

1. Runs on spdc00.
2. Log in as phedex.
3. Use grid-proxy-info to make sure the grid-proxy is valid. If not, follow directions to set up valid grid-proxy.
4. Start or stop Phedex:
   • Master -config ~/SITECONF/local/PhEDEx/Config.SC4 [start | stop]
   • Replace "Config.SC4" with "Config.Prod" or "Config.Dev" to start the production and devel database, respectively.

Frontier:

1. Runs on spdc00.
2. Log in as dbfrontier.
3. Start or stop Frontier:
   • ~dbfrontier/frontier-cache/utils/bin/fn-local-squid.sh [start | stop]

SRM:

1. Runs on spdc00
2. To start/stop SRM separetely from Phedex, as root:
   • /opt/d-cache/jobs/srm -logArea=/var/log [start | stop]
3. To do some file transfer tests, as user:
   • grid-proxy-init
   • srmcp file:////some/test/file srm://spdc00.if.usp.br:8443/srm/managerv1?SFN=/pnfs/if.usp.br/data/tmp/some_name

Important Log files:

• Globus:
  • $VDT_LOCATION/globus/var/globus-gatekeeper.log
  • $VDT_LOCATION/globus/var/accounting.log
• GUMS:
  • $VDT_LOCATION/tomcat/v5/logs/gums-*
• Monalisa:
  • $VDT_LOCATION/MonaLisa/Service/VDTFarm/ML0.log

• Monitoring in http://spdc00.if.usp.br:2288/
• On each dCache machines, check /var/log/*Domain.log.
• The most important ones are
  • srm*Domain.log
  • gridftp*Domain.log
  • `hostname`*Domain.log

• On spdc00, as user phedex, the phedex logs are found in ~/logs. The most useful is:
  • /home/phedex/logs/download-master

Renewing Phedex Proxy:

• Check to make sure that the environment variable $MYPROXY_SERVER matches with the $MYPROXY_SERVER in /home/phedex/SITECONF/local/PhEDEx/ProxyRenew
• grid-proxy-init
• myproxy-init -R spgrid.if.usp.br -l phedex_sprace -c 720.0
• su -
• . /OSG/setup.sh
• cp /tmp/x509up_u500 /etc/grid-security/proxy.cert
• chown root: /etc/grid-security/proxy.cert
• /home/phedex/SITECONF/local/PhEDEx/ProxyRenew /etc/grid-security

-- EduardoGregores - 01 Sep 2006