Administrator's Guide

Provides detailed instructions for installing and initializing a gCube-based Hybrid Data Infrastructure. Includes information about external dependencies, known issues, incompatibilities, specific platform details etc. Offers guidelines and instructions for the daily administration and upgrading of a gCube infrastructure and the within established VREs.

Contents

1. Introduction
   1. Intended Readership
   2. Purpose
   3. Related Documents
   4. Problem Reporting
2. gCube Overview
3. How to set up a gCube infrastructure
4. Monitoring a gCube infrastructure with Nagios
5. gCube Hosting Nodes management
   1. SmartGears gHN Installation
   2. gCore gHN Installation
      1. Adding Virtual Platforms to a gHN
         1. Adding the Tomcat Virtual Platform to a gHN
      2. Security
         1. GHN Security Configuration
         2. Security Plugins Table
6. Core Services Installation
   1. Information System Installation
   2. VRE Management Services Installation
   3. Usage-Tracker Installation
   4. Security
      1. SOA3 services configuration
      2. Shibboleth and gCube
      3. Argus Installation
7. How to create a Virtual Organization
   1. Installing the Virtual Organization enabling services
   2. Configuring the Virtual Organization
   3. Verifying the Virtual Organization correctness
   4. VO Resources
   5. VO Services Deployment and Configuration
   6. Monitoring the Virtual Organization
   7. Managing the Virtual Organization
   8. Creating Indices at the VO Level
   9. Runtime Resource Management
      1. Runtime Resource Registration
      2. Runtime Resource Classification
8. How to create a Virtual Research Environment
   1. Defining the Virtual Research Environment
   2. Approving the Virtual Research Environment
   3. Verifying the Virtual Research Environment correctness
   4. Managing the Virtual Research Environment
      1. Creating the Virtual Research Environment Layout
      2. Editing the Virtual Research Environment Information Space
      3. Managing Virtual Research Environment Users
      4. Monitoring the Virtual Research Environment through the Information System
9. How to create a Spatial Data Infrastructure
   1. Install and Configure GeoNetwork;
   2. Install and Configure GeoServer;
   3. Install and Configure THREDDS Data Server;
   4. Install and Configure 52° North Web Processing Service;
   5. Install and Configure GDAL;
10. gCube Portal
    1. gCube Portal Installation
    2. Social Portal Extension Setup
    3. Configure Portal with LDAP
    4. Authentication management with Certificates and https
    5. Policy Management Portlet
    6. Accounting Portlet
    7. Portal Administration Functionality
       1. Search Fields' Management
       2. Roles' Management
       3. Users' Management
       4. Profiles' Management
       5. Information Space Editor
       6. Resource Management
       7. Index Management
       8. IR Bootstrapper
       9. DataTransformationAdminPortlet
       10. Task Manager
       11. About inter-portlet referring
       12. Upload of new Software
    8. Monitoring System
    9. Jackrabbit Repository Installation & Configuration
11. Programmatic Administration Interface
12. Glossary
13. Lexical Convention
14. APPENDIX
    1. GCube Security Model

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Overview

gCube Architecture

Infrastructure Deployment and Daily Management

How to set up a gCube infrastructure

How to install the Core Services

How to create a Spatial Data Infrastructure

How to deploy a gCube Hosting Node

How to monitor the infrastructure via Nagios

Virtual Organisation Management

How to create a Virtual Organization

How to monitor a Virtual Organisation (obsolete);

Virtual Research Environments Management

How to create a Virtual Research Environment;