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General YAIM variables  

The following variables are used to configure the node where StoRM is installed. They had to be set because the YAIM profile of StoRM services expected them. They are used to configure BDII, NTP, VOs and pool accounts for example.

Var. Name Description Mandatory
SITE_NAME It’s the human-readable name of your site used to set the Glue-SiteName attribute.
Example: SITE_NAME="INFN EMI TESTBED"
Yes
BDII_HOST BDII hostname.
Example: BDII_HOST="emitb-bdii-site.cern.ch"
Yes
NTP_HOSTS_IP Space separated list of the IP addresses of the NTP servers (preferably set a local ntp server and a public one, e.g. pool.ntp.org). If defined, /etc/ntp.conf will be overwritten during YAIM configuration. If not defined, the site administrator will be manage on his own the ntp service and its configuration.
Example: NTP_HOSTS_IP="131.154.1.103"
No
USERS_CONF Path to the file containing the list of Linux users (pool accounts) to be created. This file must be created by the site administrator. It contains a plain list of the users and their IDs. An example of this configuration file is given in /opt/glite/yaim/examples/users.conf file. More details can be found in the User configuration section in the YAIM guide. Yes
GROUPS_CONF Path to the file containing information on the map- ping between VOMS groups and roles to local groups. An example of this configuration file is given in /opt/glite/yaim/examples/groups.conf file. More details can be found in the Group configuration section in the YAIM guide. Yes
VOS List of supported VOs.
Example: VOS="test.vo dteam"
Yes
MYSQL_PASSWORD MySQL root password.
Example: MYSQL_PASSWORD="carpediem"
Yes

Example of a storm-users.conf file that should be targeted from USERS_CONF variable:

71001:dteam001:7100:dteam:dteam::
71002:dteam002:7100:dteam:dteam::
71003:dteam003:7100:dteam:dteam::
71004:dteam004:7100:dteam:dteam::
[...]
71999:dteam999:7100:dteam:dteam::

Example of a storm-groups.conf file that should be targeted from GROUPS_CONF variable:

"/dteam"::::

Read more about YAIM into official YAIM Guide.


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