Administrator Guide

DIRAC has been developed with extensibility and flexibility in mind. A DIRAC release is composed by few projects, like in the following picture. This administration documentation refers to the “Core” DIRAC project.

• DIRAC Introduction
  • DIRAC Setup Structure
  • Installing and Configuring: Basic Concepts
• Supported environments and packages
  • OS
  • MySQL versions
  • ElasticSearch versions
• Server and Infrastructure Installations
  • DIRAC Server Installation
  • Installing WebAppDIRAC
  • Installing HTTPs services in DIRAC
  • Centralized logging for DIRAC components with the ELK stack and MQ services
  • Split Tornado logs by component
  • RabbitMQ
  • Dirac Service Limitations
  • Performance Optimisation
  • Environment Variables to Configure DIRAC Behaviour
• User management Guides
  • What are the components involved in that.
  • What is the user in DIRAC context?
  • What is the DIRAC groups?
  • What is the DIRAC Virtual Organization(VO)?
  • Consider the registration process
• HowTo Guides
  • Manage Authentication and Authorizations
  • System Administrator Console
  • Multi-VO DIRAC
  • Exporting data from your experiment site to DIRAC
  • Installing a Dedicated DIRAC FileCatalog
  • Submitting pilots to CEs using tokens
• DIRAC Configuration
  • DIRAC Configuration
  • General Component Configuration Options
  • Configuration System
  • Full Configuration Example
• Managing Sites and Resources in DIRAC
  • Sites
  • Countries
  • Catalogs
  • Computing Elements
  • Message Queues
  • Simple Message Queues
  • StorageElement
  • Agents for discovery of resources
  • ProxyProvider
  • Identity Provider
  • Dealing with Supercomputers
  • Site Names
• DIRAC Administrator tutorials
  • 1. Basic Tutorial setup
  • 2. Managing identities
  • 3. Install a DIRAC Storage Element
  • 4. Installing the DIRAC File Catalog
  • 5. Installing the RequestManagement System
  • 6. Installing the TransformationSystem
  • 7. Large Scale DataManagement with the Transformation System
  • 8. Installing the WorkloadManagement System
• Technology Previews
  • JSON Serialization
  • HTTPS Services
  • OAuth2 authorization
• DIRAC Systems in details
  • 1. Accounting System
  • 2. Configuration System
  • 3. Data Management System
  • 4. Framework System
  • 5. Request Management System
  • 6. Resource Status System
  • 7. Storage Management System
  • 8. Transformation System
  • 9. Production System
  • 10. Workload Management System (WMS)
  • 11. Monitoring System
  • 12. Workflow

• Admin Command Reference