[Swift-user] Re: GT4

[Mihael Hategan]

On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 10:13 -0500, lixi at uchicago.edu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In the past experiments, I always use gt2 as provider. Now I 
> think that it's better to use gt4 instead. The only way I 
> know to migrate from gt4 to gt2 in Swift is to modify the 
> sites file. Is that right?
> 
> In my current sites file, the site item is as follows:
> <pool handle="AGLT2">
>   <gridftp  url="gsiftp://gate01.aglt2.org" />
>   <jobmanager universe="vanilla" 
> url="gate01.aglt2.org/jobmanager-condor" major="2" />
>   <workdirectory >/atlas/data08/OSG/DATA</workdirectory>
> </pool>
> 
> Now according the default sites.xml, I replaced it with:
> <pool handle="AGLT2">
>   <gridftp  url="gsiftp://gate01.aglt2.org" />
>   <execution provider="gt4" jobmanager="CONDOR"  
> url="gate01.aglt2.org" />
>   <workdirectory >/atlas/data08/OSG/DATA</workdirectory>
> </pool>

That looks about right. But you have to be sure there is a GT4 container
on that site.

> 
> Then I'm going to test if it works by running first.swift on 
> each site one by one. Is it the right way to test if we can 
> use WS GRAM for that site?.

I don't think there is a "right" way here. Though there was this script
I wrote somewhere to test such things. It's in bin and called
checksites.k. It would test all the sites in sites.xml.

>  For the first site AGLT2, I got 
> such output:
> [lixi at communicado AGLT2]$ swift -sites.file 
> AGLT2.WSGRAM.sites.xml -
> tc.file /home/lixi/osg/swifttest/tc.data ../first.swift 
> Unable to find required classes 
> (javax.activation.DataHandler and 
> javax.mail.internet.MimeMultipart). Attachment support is 
> disabled.

You can ignore that. It doesn't have any effects on things.

> Swift svn swift-r2081 cog-r2065
> 
> RunID: 20080719-1005-dutdv6p4
> Progress: 
> echo started
> Progress:  Selecting site:1
> Progress:  Selecting site:1
> Progress:  Selecting site:1
> Progress:  Selecting site:1
> Progress:  Selecting site:1
> Progress:  Selecting site:1
> Progress:  Selecting site:1
> 
> It seems that it doesn't work well.

Can you send logs?

> 
> Could you give me some instructions? Thanks,
> 
> Xi