[Go-essp-tech] [esgf-committee] About Gateway Installation...

[Gavin M. Bell]

 Hey Estani,

I would first try to establish what NCAR feels is the proper/prescribed
way that they recommend to install the gateway.
I wrote a script to help with the process which I intended to be useful
for installation.  I honestly don't see the viability of doing every
little bit of the install by hand, there are just too many little
things, IMHO.  I have stopped actively maintaining the script for over 3
months now in order to concentrate on the data node installation, which
has been going really well.  The data node and the gateway script
overlap quite a bit. Both scripts share the globus install script, so if
you are going to edit that file, please also let me know.  Indeed I
could refactor the scripts so that functions that they both share the
same script(s) (but I won't do that until I "find the time" - i.e. don't
hold your breath :-)).

Actually, what *are* the issues you are having with the installation? 
Are they with setting up java, ant, postgres, tomcat, liquibase, globus
etc.?  Are they script issues or direct gateway configuration issues?  I
don't want to be in the business of supporting the gateway.  Since I
can't actually change anything in the gateway, putting myself in the
position to support its installation is untenable, so I won't.  If the
gateway code were open and the organization amenable to others making
modifications to it that would be a different story.

Anyway... I hope that there is some value to be found with the scripts. 
I am sorry that it doesn't take you all the way to the finish line. 
Nate, what do you intend on doing to support these people?  The gateway
and the data node are both critical pieces and we can't do one without
the other, so we are all in the same boat.  What say you?



On 8/5/10 12:55 AM, Estanislao Gonzalez wrote:
> Hello *,
>
> I'd like to add that I'm struggling like ... something... to get the 
> gateway installed on two of our systems. There are a lot of difficulties 
> that arise while trying to perform such a task. I'm documenting every 
> step here at DKRZ and at the IS-ENES wiki. I'm also correcting the 
> installer as I move forward.
>
> I would *really* like to know to whom I should address all my 
> findings... I think there are few people involved in that (Gavin you are 
> one of them ;-)
>
> For those of us who doesn't have a "pre-formatted" Gateway (i.e. using 
> the vanilla ESG-CET one) there are quite some difficulties. And some are 
> nowhere near *trivial*.
>
> The bottom line is: should questions regarding the installation go 
> directly to go-esp-tech, esg-cet or to those in charge of the different 
> parts?
>
> Thanks,
> Estani
>
> Gavin M. Bell wrote:
>> Gentle People,
>>
>> I would like to bring up the topic of Gateway installations.
>>
>> Is there a plan going forward from NCAR to facilitate / support the 
>> installation of gateways to those that want / have them?
>>
>> -- 
>> Gavin M. Bell
>> Lawrence Livermore National Labs
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