Using the Grid/Vbrowser quickstart
Intro
In the virtual laboratory for e-science (VL-e) project, a VL-e toolkit has been developed. Background an more detailed information can be found on the vbrowser homepage.
What is it for
The Vbrowser, part of the toolkit is a functional tool that can be used as a a desktop file-management client. After proper setup it provides an explorer-like interface to different storage resource available to your VO (i.e on the grid). You can transfer files from your local system to your user interface machine, or directly to a storage element or the LFC. The tool also supports third party transfers. So you can directly move or copy a file from one SE to another.
Download
The latest release can be found here:
Support
When using this tool please subscribe to the Vlet-users mailinglist.
For questions please notify grid support or use the mailinglist.
Very quick start
The vbrowser works pretty much out-of-the-box. It needs your grid certificate installed on your local machine.
Here a short explanation of three types of storage resources that can be used. Right click in the resource tree of vbrowser to create them.
- srm (Storage resource manager)
At your disposal are differents srm servers. All storage elements speak SRM, do a
lcg-infosites --vo <YOURVO> SE
on your user interface to see the ones available to you.
- sftp (secure ftp connection)
Can be used to connect to and transfer files from and to a secure file transfer server, your user interface (UI) can be connected to in that way. Right click in the resource tree; and select 'new sftp resource'. To transfer files just drag and drop, or use right click 'copy'.
- lfc
Interacts with the logical file catalog 'lfc.grid.sara.nl' is the lfc server at your disposal.
lcg-infosites --vo <YOURVO> lfc
Links
- instructions written for EBioScience: http://amc-app1.amc.sara.nl/twiki/bin/view/EBioScience/VBrowser
- http://www.nikhef.nl/~ptdeboer/vbrowser/ Vbrowser homepage]