1. Hands-On Session: Monitoring System Collector Server (MON) Installation and Configuration
Regional SEE-GRID-SCI Training for Site Administrators
Institute of Physics Belgrade
March 5-6, 2009
Vladimir Slavnic
Institute of Physics, Belgrade
Serbia 1
The SEE-GRID-SCI initiative is co-funded by the European Commission under the FP7 Research Infrastructures contract no

2. MON RGMA-based monitoring system collector server
Relational Grid Monitoring Architecture - R-GMA
Works in conjunction with batch system (CE)‏

3. Prerequisites 1/2 Installation of operating system (SL4)‏
NTP installation and configuration
check ntp.conf , ntp.drift, ntp.drift.TEMP in /etc
Java installation

4. Prerequisites 2/2 Repository configuration‏ Install lcg-CA
Get repos from local repository (
Example for MON packages:
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
wget
Install lcg-CA
Get host certificates
hostcert.pem, hostkey.pem in /etc/grid-security/

5. gLite MON installation
Install gLite packages:
yum install glite-MON
Install mysql-server :
yum install mysql-server

6. YAIM node configuring Relevant entries in site-info.def :
MON_HOST=mon.$MY_DOMAIN
REG_HOST=gserv1.ipp.acad.bg
MYSQL_PASSWORD=some_good_password
APEL_DB_PASSWORD="APELDB_PWD"
Execute configuration with:
/opt/glite/yaim/bin/yaim -c -s <path to site-info.def> -n glite-MON

7. Testing configured system
Execute server check script on MON node:
/opt/glite/bin/rgma-server-check
Try to connect to mysql base :
mysql -u accounting -p
Try to connect to the Server using the following address to your web browser:
URL>:8443/R-GMA/
Try to manually publish data from computing element node (use the scripts from crons) and observe logs

8. SG Accounting Client 1/3
Transmits aggregated accounting information to gserv1.ipp.acad.bg
MON properly installed
mysql -u root –p mysqlrootpasswrd
GRANT SELECT on accounting.* to identified by 'STRONGPASSWORD';
CREATE DATABASE tmp;
GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, DROP, ALTER, CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES ON tmp.* TO

9. SG Accounting Client 2/3 mpi_publisher-1.0-RHEL4.noarch.rpm
installs on CE (if site supports MPI)‏
accounting_publisher-2.0-RHEL4.noarch.rpm
installs on MON
su – tomcat
edit jvr.sh

10. SG Accounting Client 3/3 Only few lines to change:
DBHOSTNAME=localhost
DBUSERNAME=accounting (or tomcat4)‏
DBPASSWORD=…
DBSITENAME=AEGIS08-PHY-DEMO
Try to publish: ./jvr.sh

11. Links https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/Gene ricInstallGuide310
see.org/index.php/SG_Accounting_Client_Instal lation
see.org/index.php/SG_RGMA_Installation_Guid e