A - installation:

works rather out of the box. NCM hangs the first time as it tries to create the base path while the DB is not yet there. To fix:

• kill ncm
• place the certificates and create the db shema

mysql -u root -pPASSWD < /usr/share/lcgdm/create_dpm_tables_mysql.sql mysql -u root -pPASSWD < /usr/share/lcgdm/create_dpns_tables_mysql.sql

• reboot or reconfigure

B - upgrade from DPM 1.8.9 (glite-3.2):

again, works "rather" out of the box. A couple of issues

• init.d scripts of srm,dpm,dpns,bdii are not re-created on the head node. To fix:
  • rpm -e --nodeps dpm-server-mysql dpm-name-server-mysql dpm-srm-server-mysql bdii
  • configure spma
  • configure all

• some bdii directories are not created. To fix:

[root@llrtest07 ~]# mkdir -p /var/lib/bdii/db/grid /var/lib/bdii/db/glue /var/lib/bdii/db/stats [root@llrtest07 ~]# chown ldap:ldap /var/lib/bdii/db/grid /var/lib/bdii/db/glue /var/lib/bdii/db/stats restart bdii

• minor change in the db schema which causes the dpm demon to crash. To fix:

mysql -u root -pPASSWD dpm_db mysql> alter table dpm_fs add weight INTEGER; mysql> update dpm_fs set weight=1; mysql> UPDATE schema_version_dpm SET major = 3, minor = 3, patch = 0;

Xrootd

in the se_dpm_config template put:

variable XROOT_ENABLED = true; variable XROOTD_SHARED_KEY='<authentication key>'; variable XROOTD_DISKS=list(

nlist('host', 'diskserver1'), nlist('host', 'diskserver2'), nlist('host', 'diskserver3'), ...

);