= Quattor at a Glance =
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'''This page has been kept for reference as it contains some still useful links to old material. Be sure to start with the main Quattor [http://quattor.org web site] first.'''

This page lists links useful for Quattor end users. Normally these will be sysadmins using Quattor to manage machines and services. For an introduction to Quattor concepts, please read [wiki:Web/Overview our overview page].

== Installing Quattor == #Install

* [wiki:Download/SCDB Step-by-Step Quattor Server Installation (SCDB based)]
* [/wiki/Download/Aquilon Starting with Aquilon]
* [wiki:Web/SecureProfileDelivery Secure Profile Delivery]: Using SSL and certificates to authenticate server and nodes

== Using Quattor == #Usage

* [wiki:Web/QuattorClientUsage quattor client usage]: frequently-used commands for querying and enforcing configuration state
* [wiki:ToolsCatalog catalog of tools]: useful tools for managing a Quattor system

== Pan language compiler == #Pan

Quattor profiles are written using the pan language. The pan language compiler builds a set of machine configuration profiles from a high-level configuration written in the pan language. The machine configuration profiles are usually XML formatted files, although text, [http://www.graphviz.org/ Graphviz], and [http://hypergraph.sourceforge.net/ HyperGraph] formats are also supported.  See the [https://sourceforge.net/projects/quattor/files/ files] section for the latest version of the compiler.  The releases also include a pan language compiler and pan compiler manual.

== Configuration database == #ConfigDB

=== SCDB === #SCDB

 * [wiki:Doc/SCDB/Usage Usage]
 * [wiki:Download/SCDB Installation]: how to set up a new configuration database for a site

== Configuring site == #SiteConfig

=== Configuring base OS and related services === #BaseOS

 * [wiki:Doc/OS OS templates]: template library (used to be called QWG templates) for configuring and maintaining (including errata management) OS base configuration 

=== Configuring gLite services === #gLite

 * [wiki:Doc/gLite QWG gLite templates]: standard templates (called QWG templates) for configuring [http://glite.org/ gLite] services

== Virtual machine images for Quattor servers == #VMs

[http://gridp03.ft.uam.es/ostemplates/quattorserver-x86_64-default.tar.gz OpenVZ image]

== Tutorials == #Tutorials

 * [http://indico.in2p3.fr/conferenceOtherViews.py?view=standard&confId=1566 Quattor for site administrators (Feb. 2008)]  (agenda in French, presentations in English!)
   * [http://indico.in2p3.fr/getFile.py/access?contribId=2&sessionId=8&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=1566 Getting started with QWG templates]
 * [http://indico.lal.in2p3.fr/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=590 Advanced quattor tutorial (Dec. 2008)] (agenda in French, presentations in English!)
   * [http://indico.lal.in2p3.fr/getFile.py/access?sessionId=0&resId=0&materialId=0&confId=590 Regular tasks]
   * [http://indico.lal.in2p3.fr/getFile.py/access?sessionId=1&resId=0&materialId=0&confId=590 Advanced Pan]
   * [http://indico.lal.in2p3.fr/getFile.py/access?sessionId=5&resId=0&materialId=0&confId=590 AII version 2]
   * [http://indico.lal.in2p3.fr/getFile.py/access?sessionId=2&resId=0&materialId=0&confId=590 Management of users]
 * [http://indico.lal.in2p3.fr/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=543 Grid Resource Management Tutorial (Sept. 2008)]
   * [http://indico.lal.in2p3.fr/getFile.py/access?contribId=2&sessionId=9&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=543 Introduction to Quattor]
 * [http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=3105 Tutorial presented to LCG sites (June 2006)]

== Presentations == #Pres

 * [https://2011.jres.org/ JRES11] conference (France), November 2011: [attachment:"Quattor - JRES 2011.pptx" presentation slides] (French)
 * USENIX - LISA'08 conference, November 2008: [http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa08/tech/full_papers/childs/childs.pdf paper] [http://quattor.sourceforge.net/pdf/slides-qttr_dvlvd_mngmt.pdf presentation slides]
 * EGEE'08 poster, September 2008: [http://quattor.sourceforge.net/pdf/EGEE-08_quattor_poster-final-a4.pdf poster]
 * External Technology Transfer meeting, November 2009: [http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?sessionId=9&resId=0&materialId=0&confId=73360 slides]
 * fOSSA'09, Grenoble (France), Nov. 2009: [http://quattor.sourceforge.net/pdf2/Quattor-fOSSa09.pdf slides]

== External Links == #Links

 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quattor Wikipedia]