Instruction for BalticGrid Tutorial Organizers

There are 3 parties involved in a tutorial: Tutorial Organizer, Participants and BalticGrid Tutorial Technical Team.

• Tutorial Organizer
  
• provides the BG Tutorial Technical Team with information on the planned event
• applies for the access to the infrastructure for the Participants
  
• obey rules of handling the received credentials
  
• is responsible for conveying the rules of usage of grid to the Participants
• Participants (attendees of the event)
• obtains the access to the BalticGrid infrastructure by using X.509 certificates provided by the Technical Team (via the Tutorial Organizer)
• obey rules of using the grid
  
• BalticGrid Tutorial Technical Team
• provide the X.509 certificates to access the BalticGrid Tutorial infrastructure to be used by the Participants of the tutorial to Tutorial Organizer (one person, certificate DN needed)
• provide core services for tutorial VO i.e. File Catalogue (LFC) and Resource Broker (WMS)

The roles and responsibilities

BalticGrid Tutorial Technical Team provide the Organizer with grid certificates to access the BG training infrastructure. These are short-time anonymous certificates valid solely for the tutorial event.

The Organizers agrees to record mapping between the anonymous certificates and the tutorial participant personal to whom the certificate password has been provided.

The procedure of obtaining the certificates

1. The request for tutorial certificates must be send at least 2 weeks in advance before the tutorial event
2. The tutorial organizer should own the X.509 certificate (to be able to download certificates)
   

1. Tutorial Organizer Contact(s) Details
1. Name Surname,
   
2. institute,
   
3. e-mail address,
   
4. phone - please indicate who would be the primary person to contact
5. DN of the personal certificate
   
2. Start and End date of the tutorial event
3. Estimate of number of participants
   
4. Estimate of the CPUs needed in a peak

Please send this information to cyfronet-tutorial-ca AT grid.cyfronet.pl (as a temporar solution).

Tutorial Technical Team validates the request and if accepted provides the credentials to the Tutorial Organizer.

1. Tutorial Technical Team provides details about the GSIFTP server where the credentials and passwords are stored. The Team is supposed to make that data available at latest one week after receiving the request.

The certificates are signed by Cyfronet Tutorial CA and are registered in bgtut VO. Certificates are numbered.

IMPORTANT: The Tutorial Organizer is obliged to keep track of which certificate was given out to which participant. The names have to be written down and a copy send back to the  BalticGrid Tutorial  Technical Team (cyfronet-tutorial-ca AT grid.cyfronet.pl).

. (after the event)

Within 2 weeks the tutorial organizer sends back a copy of the mapping between certificates and tutorial Participants' names.

1. Tutorial Organizer sends by a signed e-mail the certificate numbers along with the Names of the tutorial Participants.

bgtut VO core services setup

WMS: wms1.cyf-kr.edu.pl

LFC: lfc.cyf-kr.edu.pl

To determine other machines please run:

lcg-infosites --vo bgtut <machine_type>

where <machine_type> is: "rb", "ce", "se", "lfc"

Troubleshooting

1. Problems with voms-proxy-init
   
   • Make sure you are trying to create the proxy within the timeframe of the certificate validity. To check the certificate validity run:  grid-cert-info -startdate -file <path_to_certificate.pem>
   • Make sure the system clock on the machine you run the command is synchronized with some time server
2. In case of problems that are supposed not to be at your side please contact the Tutorial Technical Team at cyfronet-tutorial-ca AT grid.cyfronet.pl or make a call to +48 12 617 4335 ask for Marcin Radecki.