Documenting here, steps followed in installing Globus Toolkit - 4.2 version on stage.uabgrid.uab.edu

  • As root on stage, undo the symbolic link to globus-4.0.5 and unset $GLOBUS_LOCATION 
    cd /opt
unlink globus
unset GLOBUS_LOCATION
  • Create a new directory for 4.2 version, symbolic link (globus) and give the ownership to the globus user 
    cd /opt
mkdir gt42
ln -s gt42 globus
chown globus:globus gt42
  • Download and extract the globus-4.2 toolkit. Here, I have downloaded both the source and binary distribution for gt-4.2, but installing the gt-4.2 from source distribution 
    su - globus
cd dist
wget http://www-unix.globus.org/ftppub/gt4/4.2.0/installers/src/gt4.2.0-all-source-installer.tar.bz2
wget http://www-unix.globus.org/ftppub/gt4/4.2.0/installers/bin/gt4.2.0-x86_rhas_4-installer.tar.gz
bunzip2 gt4.2.0-all-source-installer.tar.bz2
cd ../src
tar -xvf ../dist/gt4.2.0-all-source-installer.tar
tar -xvzf ../dist/gt4.2.0-x86_rhas_4-installer.tar.gz
  • Before building the toolkit, check build environment i.e., check for PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variables 
    PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$ANT_HOME/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export GLOBUS_LOCATION=/opt/globus
  • Ready to begin the build 
    cd ~/src/gt4.2.0-all-source-installer
./configue --prefix=$GLOBUS_LOCATION
make | tee build.log
make install | tee install.log
  • Creating Reliable File Transfer (RFT) Service The initial setup for RFT has already been done on stage, i.e., creating a mysql database called rftdatabase and tables http://dev.uabgrid.uab.edu/uabgrid-stage/wiki/BuildTheStage#ConfiguretheRFTService.
    All that remained to be changed was the patch to be applied to $GLOBUS_LOCATION/etc/globus_wsrf_rft/jndi-config.xml as given here: http://www.globus.org/toolkit/docs/4.2/4.2.0/data/rft/admin/rft-admin-mysql.html 
    Edit $GLOBUS_LOCATION/etc/globus_wsrf_rft/jndi-config.xml and change the following values:
 * for connectionString, change jdbc:postgresql://host/rftDatabase to jdbc:mysql:///rftDatabase
 * for driverName, change org.postgresql.Driver to com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
 * and change the userName and password to whatever was set when users were created for MySQL.

So, the following patch was applied to $GLOBUS_LOCATION/etc/globus_wsrf_rft/jndi-config.xml 

patch --ignore-whitespace --backup $GLOBUS_LOCATION/etc/globus_wsrf_rft/jndi-config.xml << EOF
80c80
<            org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver
---
>            com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
88c88
<            jdbc:derby:GLOBUS_LOCATION/var/rftDatabase
---
>            jdbc:mysql:///rftDatabase 
EOF

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