EES installation instructions

Basic installation

• Install the EES:

yum install ees

• When needed, add a useraccount for the ees user (should be automatic by RPM):

useradd -r -M ees

• Update ees.conf for logging:

syslog

comment-out the log= line.

file

when needed, update the logfile to a file writeable for the ees user

• start the ees

/etc/init.d/ees start

• You can use the EES nagios plugin to test it is working correctly. When using the EMI repository you can do a

yum install nagios-plugins-emi.ees
/usr/libexec/grid-monitoring/probes/nagios-plugins-emi.ees/check_ees

When using the (more) EPEL compliant build from the Nikhef testing repository run

yum install  nagios-plugins-ees
/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_ees

Installation of Argus Obligation Handler

• On the host running the Argus PEPd run

yum install ees-pepd-oh

• Create a symlink:

ln -s /usr/share/java/ees-pepd-oh.jar /var/lib/argus/pepd/lib/

• Make sure there is a policy active in the Argus PAP that will trigger an EES run, e.g.:

resource "wn" {
    obligation "http://glite.org/xacml/obligation/local-environment-map" {}
    obligation "http://example.org/xacml/obligation/run-ees" {}
    action ".*" {
       rule permit {
          fqan = "/dteam"
       }
    }
 }

Don't forget to reload the policy in the PDP

/etc/init.d/argus-pdp reloadpolicy

• Add a [EES_OH] section to /etc/argus/pepd/pepd.ini, containing the same obligation as inserted in the PAP policy. Also make sure the eesEndpoint is set correctly.

[EES_OH]
parserClass = org.glite.authz.pep.obligation.eesmap.EESObligationHandlerConfigurationParser
entityId = http://argus.example.org/pepd/ees
handledObligationId = http://example.org/xacml/obligation/run-ees
eesEndpoint = http://ees.example.org:6217/

• Also add the EES_OH to the list of enabled obligationHandlers is the [SERVICE] section of the /etc/argus/pepd/pepd.ini:

[SERVICE]
...
obligationHandlers = EES_OH ACCOUNTMAPPER_OH

• Restart the PEPd:

/etc/init.d/argus-pepd restart

It should now be possible to do a gLExec call-out to the Argus PEPd that triggers an EES run.