Quattor at a Glance

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 our overview page.

Installing Quattor

• Step-by-Step Quattor Server Installation (SCDB based)
• Secure Profile Delivery: Using SSL and certificates to authenticate server and nodes
• ​Nightly autobuild of quattor trunk

Using Quattor

• quattor client usage: frequently-used commands for querying and enforcing configuration state
• ​components documentation: available components and their documentation
  • See also: the ​latest components documentation generated by the nightly autobuild process.
• 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, ​Graphviz, and ​HyperGraph formats are also supported. See the ​files section for the latest version of the compiler. The releases also include a pan language compiler and pan compiler manual.

Configuration database

SCDB

• Usage
• Installation: how to set up a new configuration database for a site

Configuring site

Configuring base OS and related services

• OS templates: standard templates (called QWG templates) for configuring and maintaining (including errata management) OS base configuration

Configuring gLite services

• QWG gLite templates: standard templates (called QWG templates) for configuring ​gLite services

Virtual machine images for Quattor servers

​OpenVZ image

Tutorials

• ​Quattor for site administrators (Feb. 2008) (agenda in French, presentations in English!)
  • ​Getting started with QWG templates
• ​Advanced quattor tutorial (Dec. 2008) (agenda in French, presentations in English!)
  • ​Regular tasks
  • ​Advanced Pan
  • ​AII version 2
  • ​Management of users
• ​Grid Resource Management Tutorial (Sept. 2008)
  • ​Introduction to Quattor
• ​Tutorial presented to LCG sites (June 2006)

Presentations

• USENIX - LISA'08 conference, November 2008: ​paper ​presentation slides
• EGEE'08 poster, September 2008: ​poster
• External Technology Transfer meeting, November 2009: ​slides
• fOSSA'09, Grenoble (France), Nov. 2009: ​slides

External Links

• ​Wikipedia