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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 [[Overview|our overview page]].

== Installing quattor ==
* [https://trac.lal.in2p3.fr/LCGQWG/wiki/Download/SCDB Step-by-Step Quattor Server Installation (SCDB based)]
* [wiki:Web/SecureProfileDelivery Secure Profile Delivery]: Using SSL and certificates to authenticate server and nodes
* [http://lapp.in2p3.fr/Quattor/autobuild/rpm/trunk/current/ Nightly autobuild of quattor trunk]

== Using quattor ==
* [wiki:Web/QuattorClientUsage quattor client usage]: frequently-used commands for querying and enforcing configuration state
* [http://quattor.sourceforge.net/components.html components documentation]: available components and their documentation 
  * See also: the [http://lapp.in2p3.fr/Quattor/autobuild/documentation/ latest components documentation] generated by the nightly autobuild process.
* [wiki:ToolsCatalog catalog of tools]: useful tools for managing a quattor system

== Pan language compiler ==
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 ==
=== SCDB ([http://subversion.tigris.org Subversion] based) ===
* [https://trac.lal.in2p3.fr/LCGQWG/wiki/Download/SCDB Installation]: how to set up a new configuration database for a site
* [https://trac.lal.in2p3.fr/LCGQWG/wiki/Doc/SCDB/Usage Usage]

== Configuring a grid site ==
* [https://trac.lal.in2p3.fr/LCGQWG/wiki/Doc/gLite/TemplateLayout QWG gLite templates]: a distribution of templates for configuring [http://glite.org/ gLite] services

== Virtual machine images for Quattor servers ==

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

== 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 =
* 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]