Installation Guide

These short instructions will only guide you through a simple installation of DATE NextSoftware

DATE depends in many external libraries

Install this packages as ROOT user:

• DIM
  • More information about DIM http://dim.web.cern.ch/dim/
  • rpm -ivh dim-19.7-1.i386.rpm
    

• SMI
  • More information about SMI http://smi.web.cern.ch/smi/
  • rpm -ivh smi-36.1-3.i386.rpm
    

• MySQL^?
  • More information about MySQL^? http://www.mysql.com/
  • rpm -ivh MySQL^?-devel-community-5.1.31-0.rhel4.i386.rpm
  • rpm -ivh MySQL^?-shared-community-5.1.31-0.rhel4.i386.rpm
  • rpm -ivh MySQL^?-client-community-5.1.31-0.rhel4.i386.rpm
  • rpm -ivh MySQL^?-server-community-5.1.31-0.rhel4.i386.rpm
    

• TCL
  • TCL/TK is a script language, almost all the HI used in DATE are developed in TK. Some extra TCL libs are needed to handle components like MySQL^?
  • More information about TCL http://www.tcl.tk
  • rpm -ivh tcl-8.4.7-4.el4.i386.rpm
  • rpm -ivh tk-8.4.7-3.el4_6.1.i386.rpm
  • rpm -ivh BWidget-1.7.0-1.noarch.rpm
  • rpm -ivh mysqltcl-3.05-1.i386.rpm <br/ >

• DATE
  • More information about DATE http://ph-dep-aid.web.cern.ch/ph-dep-aid/
  • rpm -ivh date-6.44-1.i386.rpm

• MORE DEPENDENCIES
  • As DATE software has been developed at CERN the rpm have more dependencies. If it's necessary install too:
    • rpm -ivh readline-5.0-3.i386.rpm
    • rpm -ivh expect-5.42.1-1.i386.rpm
    • rpm -ivh castor-devel-2.1.0-3.i386.rpm
    • rpm -ivh castor-lib-2.1.0-3.i386.rpm

Configuration

Once all rpms are installed we can move to configure the system in order to handle the DATE software

• To do as ROOT user
  • Create a local user and group that will later own the whole DATE installation, for example:
    • /usr/sbin/groupadd -g 2222 dategroup
    • /usr/sbin/useradd -u 2222 -s /bin/bash -g 2222 -d /home/dateuser dateuser
      
  • Correct the ownership and permissions on the DATE tree
    • chown -R dateuser:dategroup /opt/date
  • Create MySQL^? user accounts (needed only once after MySQL^? server install)
    • unset DATE_SITE
    • . /date/setup.sh
    • newMysql.sh

• To do as dateuser
  • Create DATE_SITE
    • Answer yes at the question "Do you want to create a minimal configuration?". This will create a simple standalone setup consisting of one LDC and one GDC on the same node.
    • newDateSite.sh

• To do as ROOT user
  • Configure the services (to be run on all DATE hosts as root)
    • export DATE_SITE=/dateSite
    • . /date/setup.sh
    • dateLocalConfig -s
  • Stop the firewall (to be done after each boot)
    • /etc/init.d/iptables stop
  • Launch the DIM name server where appropriate (to be done after each boot)
    • /date/runControl/start_dim.sh &

• To do as dateuser
  • Launch the infoLoggerServer where appropriate (to be done after each boot)
    • export DATE_SITE=/dateSite
    • . /date/setup.sh
    • /date/infoLogger/infoLoggerServer.sh start
  • Launch DATE
    • export DATE_SITE=/dateSite
    • cd /date; . ./setup.sh
    • infoBrowser
    • runControl/DAQCONTROL.sh