Administrator's Guide

Provides detailed instructions for installing and initializing a digital library using gCube’s core components. 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 (gHN) management
   1. gCube Hosting Node (gHN) Installation
   2. Adding Virtual Platforms to a gHN
      1. Adding the Tomcat Virtual Platform to a gHN
   3. Security Configuration
   4. Security Plugins Table
6. Core Services Installation
   1. Information System Installation
   2. VRE Management Services Installation
   3. Argus Configuration
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
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. Third Party Software
   1. gdal
10. gCube Portal
    1. gCube Portal Installation
    2. Configure Portal with LDAP
    3. Authentication management with Certificates and https
    4. 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
    5. Monitoring System
11. Programmatic Administration Interface
12. Glossary
13. Lexical Convention
14. APPENDIX
    1. GCube Security Model
    2. gHN Security Configuration
    3. Argus Configuration
    4. Policy Definition Portlet