How to Read gUSE Documents Orange Docs Series for General Pruposes RELEASE ISSUE POLICY LICENSE HOW TO READ GUSE DOCUMENTS GUSE IN A NUTSHELL by Tibor Gottdank

Introduction This guide is an overview and a kind of map of the documentation written for gUSE system. The gUSE documents is organized based on the audience of gUSE. Thus there are manuals signed by different colors for users, for administrators and operators as well as for developers. Additionaly, there are some generic documents (like this). On the following pages you find the detailed gUSE documentation review with short descriptions and. You get also information where you can download the document files on gUSE SourceForge site ( At the last section, you can see some tables for summarizing the gUSE versions and related documentation.

Orange Series Red SeriesGreen Series INSTALLATION WIZARD MANUAL UPGRADE MANUAL ADMINISTRATOR MANUAL DCI BRIDGE ADMINISTRATOR MANUAL GEMLCA INSTALLATION MANUAL COOKBOOK FOR GATEWAY DEVELOPERS CREATING DCI BRIDGE PLUGIN ASM MANUAL REMOTE API CONFIGURATION AND USAGE RELEASE ISSUE POLICY LICENSE HOW TO READ GUSE DOCUMENTS GUSE IN A NUTSHELL ASM UPGRADE MANUAL Blue Series WS-PGRADE PORTAL USER MANUAL WS-PGRADE PORTAL COOKBOOK for administratorsfor developersfor general purposes for users The structure of gUSE documents

Green Series manuals for administrators and operators INSTALLATION WIZARD MANUAL The most relevant and useful information about installation of gUSE/WS-PGRADE system by Installation Wizard tool. The manual gives description about the installation prerequisites, programs, the detailed installation process as well as considerations about testing and security. UPGRADE MANUAL Upgrade description about gUSE/WS-PGRADE from the previous version to current one. The manual provides information about the exact upgrade procedure including backups, database update and web application update as well as about the system restart. ADMINISTRATOR MANUAL Guide to gUSE components and related interfaces administration. Some topics from the content: How to Start and Stop the System, Setup the End-User Role, Setting System to Local Submitter, Robot Permission Related Logging of Job Submissions. DCI BRIDGE ADMINISTRATOR MANUAL Detailed information about DCI Bridge administration itemized by middleware types. GEMLCA INSTALLATION MANUAL Short installation description for using GEMLCA under gUSE. /Documentation/gUSE_Install_Wizard_Manual v.pdf/ download /Documentation/Portal_Upgrade_Manual_v.pdf/ download for each gUSE version /Documentation/gUSE_Admin_Manual.pdf/download /Documentation/DCI_Bridge_Manual_v.pdf/download for each gUSE version /Documentation/GEMLCA_Install_Manual_v.pdf/ download

COOKBOOK FOR GATEWAY DEVELOPERS Solutions and examples for advanced usage and development of gUSE components and related programming interfaces. CREATING DCI BRIDGE PLUGIN ASM MANUAL REMOTE API CONFIG AND USAGE This document describes how to create a new middleware plugin in the DCI-Bridge component (used in gUSE to bridge the communication towards grid middlewares and other resources) by guiding through the steps how the plugin called “CloudBroker” had been created. Manual and developer tutorial about using of the API called Application-Specific Module (ASM). This specification contains information about Remote API configuration settings within WS-PGRADE as well as about the command-line job submission in gUSE. A set of examples is also attached to this document. /Documentation/CreatingDCIBridgePlugin.pdf/download /Documentation/ASM_Developer_Guide_v3.4.6.pdf/download /Documentation/RemoteAPI_Usage.pdf/download ASM UPGRADE MANUAL Release Notes of ASM and Upgrade manual for ASM-based Application Specific Interfaces. /Documentation/ASM3.4.6_Release_Notes_and_Upgrade_Manual.pdf/ download Red Series manuals for developers

Blue Series manuals for users WS-PGRADE PORTAL USER MANUAL WS-PGRADE PORTAL COOKBOOK Detailed guide of WS-PGRADE Portal for users. The most typical and common use cases of gUSE/WS-PGRADE portal. In the focus is to introduce a practical, transparent user-level „how to” guide about various workflow creation, configuration and submission processes in WS-PGRADE. /Documentation/Portal_User_Manual_v3.5.7.pdf/download for each gUSE version

Orange Series manuals for general purposes RELEASE ISSUE POLICY LICENSE This documentation defines the exact roles and process of a general gUSE/WS-PGRADE release. Description of free download components/third party terms and conditions of gUSE/WS-PGRADE. /LICENSE/download HOW TO READ GUSE DOCUMENTS GUSE IN A NUTSHELL Useful guide and documentation map for reading the gUSE documentation. Quick overview about gUSE. It provides a big picture about gUSE and correctly answer the essential question about gUSE: what is this? If you meet gUSE at the very first time, look at this document.

PORTAL USER MANUAL ca. 240 pages WS-PGRADE COOKBOOK ca. 90 pages DCI BRIDGE MANUAL ca. 50 pages DEVELOPER COOKBOOK ca. 20 pages ASM MANUAL ca. 40 pages REMOTE API DOC. ca. 10 pages PLUGIN CREATION ca. 20 pages GUSE IN A NUTSHELL ca. 30 pages ADMIN MANUAL ca. 50 pages INSTALLATION & UPGRADE MANUALS ca. 40 pages The sizes of the main gUSE documents and their relations

First meeting with gUSE GUSE IN A NUTSHELL PORTAL USER MANUAL INSTALLATION WIZARD MANUAL UPGRADE MANUAL GEMLCA INSTALL MANUAL REMOTE API CONFIG MANUAL WS-PGRADE COOKBOOK ASM MANUAL REMOTE API MANUAL Using of gUSE Installation of gUSE DCI-BRIDGE MANUAL DEVELOPER COOKBOOK ADMIN MANUAL The main gUSE documents sorted by main activities HOW TO READ GUSE DOCS RELEASE ISSUE POLICY

Select a version Select the Documentation folder within the selected version folder. Documents in the Documentation folder The location of gUSE documentation on SourceForge Documents in the parent folder

Release Date 21/12/201114/02/201220/03/201229/03/201209/05/201211/06/201215/06/201205/07/201218/07/2012 New Main Feature New job submission tool: DCI Bridge Statistics function gLite, ARC, and UNICORE can run on EMI User Interface machine LifeRay 6.1 support EDGI VO support Connection to SHIWA Repository Service Wizard Visual improvement in portal dialog objects GT5 support Changed Manuals DCI Bridge Manual Portal User Manual DCI Bridge Manual Portal User Manual DCI Bridge Manual Install Wizard Manual (for every release) WS-PGRADE Cookbook (permanently improving) ASM and Remote API documentation (fixed documentation) gUSE 3.4Series

Release Date 23/08/201218/09/201217/10/201214/03/201309/04/201329/04/201317/05/201331/05/ /07/2013 New Main Feature IDB tools and CloudBroker support Improved Cloud- Broker support Workflow sharing support to remote SHIWA repository Faster job submission, EMI UI v2 support, REST API support Providing billing information about CloudBroker -based job submission Support of using robot cert for workflow running Extension in support for using remote SHIWA repository Improved Statistics function System performance optimization Changed Manuals DCI Bridge Manual Portal User Manual DCI Bridge Manual Portal User Manual Release Issue Policy Doc Map gUSE in a Nutshell Updated Remote API and ASM Docs gUSE 3.5Series

Release Date 09/10/201307/11/2013 Coming Soon New Main Feature Data Avenue - the file commander Workflow debugging by breakpoints Direct cloud access Changed Manuals Portal User Manual DCI Bridge Manual WS-PGRADE Cookbook ASM Upgrade Manual gUSE 3.6Series