Administration Client

The administration client is used to update the "human-centric" data that is not managed via the web services discussed above. There are three main sections to the administration client - general administration, VO administration, and resource administration.

The admin client URL is as follows:


http://<hostname>:<port>/gpir

To login to the administration client using the default username and password use::

username: tomcat

password: tomcat

To change the default username, password and role for the admin client open CATALINA_HOME/conf/tomcat-users.xml in your favorite text editor and add the following lines (as an example): 


	<role rolename="gpiradmin"/>
	<user username="gpir" password="gpir" roles="gpiradmin"/>

Your tomcat-users.xml file should look something like this: 


	<tomcat-users>
  		<role rolename="tomcat"/>
  		<role rolename="role1"/>
  		<role rolename="gpiradmin"/>
  		<user username="gpir" password="gpir" roles="gpiradmin"/>
  		<user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat"/>
  		<user username="both" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,role1"/>
  		<user username="role1" password="tomcat" roles="role1"/>
	<tomcat-users>

You will also need to change the auth-constraint and security-role role-name elements. 


    <auth-constraint>
       <role-name>gpiradmin</role-name>
    </auth-constraint>
    ...
    <security-role>
       <role-name>gpiradmin</role-name>
    </security-role>

General Administration

General administration deals mostly with managing various lists that make up the data elements that will be available to you in your GPIR instance. For example, Institution that may be participating in your Virtual Organizations can be managed under the "Institutions" section of the navigation tree that is located on the left-hand side of the GPIR Administration client interface. Institutions are then in turn associated with Departments that may be the actual caretakers of a resource on your VO.

Please see the help documentation available on the default GPIR Admin Client page for more information about what can be configured in each section of the Admin Client. This page can be reached by either pointing your browser to http://<hostname>:<port>/gpir or by clicking the "?" symbol next to the "GPIR Administration" navigation text on the left-hand side of the GPIR Admin Client interface.

VO Administration

VOs are essentially defined by the departments and resources that participate in them. In addition to managing VOs themselves (adding new ones, deleting old ones, etc.) in the general administration section, VO relationships to departments and resources can be managed in the section located under each VO listed in the tree navigation in the left nav bar. Adding or removing a resource, for example, simply requires the administrator to signify membership by checking the appropriate boxes and submitting the web form.

Resource Administration

Finally, resources themselves can be managed under the resources section of general administration. At the moment resources are strictly divided into three types: compute, storage and visualization. Some accommodation for resources that play multiple roles is planned in a future release.

Here, you can edit all resource specific information as well as associate a resource with its VO membership. The clients section specifies which client machines may run providers that can update information about this resource.

NOTE:If the client (and its IP address) has not been associated with the resource here, any call to the GPIRIngester web service will fail to run from that client for the resource in question.