Generic installation and configuration guide including YAIM 3.0.0

IMPORTANT NOTE: This guide is not up to date. Better use the YAIM guide 3.1.1 with the latest information

Introduction to Manual Installation and Configuration

This document is addressed to Site Administrators in charge of middleware installation and configuration. It is a generic guide to manual installation and configuration for any supported node types. It provides a fast method to install and configure the gLite middleware on the various node types (WN, UI, CE, SE ...) on the top of the following Linux distributions.

* Scientific Linux 3.0

The proposed installation and configuration method is based on the Debian apt-get tool and on a set of shell scripts built within the yaim framework [2]. The provided scripts can be used by Site Administrators with no need for in-depth knowledge of specific middleware configuration details. three configuration files, according to provided examples. The resulting configuration is a default site configuration. Local customizations and tuning of the middleware, if needed, can then be done manually1.

-- Main.gdebrecz - 23 Nov 2006