This part contains descriptions of the components of dCache, their role, functionality within the framework. In short, all information necessary for configuring them.
Table of Contents
- 4. Chimera
- 5. The Cell Package
- 6. The
replicaservice (Replica Manager) - 7. The
poolmanagerservice - 8. The dCache Tertiary Storage System Interface
- Introduction
- Scope of this chapter
- Requirements for a Tertiary Storage System
- How dCache interacts with a Tertiary Storage System
- Details on the TSS-support
executable - Configuring pools to interact with a Tertiary Storage System
- How to Store-/Restore files via the Admin Interface
- How to monitor what’s going on
- Example of an
executableto simulate a tape backend
- 9. File Hopping
- 10. Authorization in dCache
- 11. dCache as xRootd-Server
- 12. dCache as
NFSv4.1server - 13. dCache Storage Resource Manager
- Introduction
- Configuring the
srmservice - Utilization of Space Reservations for Data Storage
- dCache specific concepts
SpaceManagerconfiguration for Explicit Space Reservations- SRMWatch,
SRMMonitoring Tool - Configuring the PostgreSQL Database
- Choosing The right hardware and OS for the
SRMnode - General
SRMConcepts (for developers)
- 14. The billing service
- 15. dCache Webadmin Interface
- 16. ACLs in dCache
- 17. GLUE info provider
- 18. Stage Protection