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. 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
5. Core Services Installation
   1. Information System Installation
   2. VRE Management Services Installation
   3. Argus Configuration
6. 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
7. 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
8. Portal
   1. gCube Portal Installation
   2. New gCube Portal Installation (Liferay)
   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. Content Import
      8. Index Management
      9. IR Bootstrapper
      10. DataTransformationAdminPortlet
      11. Task Manager
      12. About inter-portlet referring
   5. Monitoring System
9. Programmatic Administration Interface
10. Glossary
11. Lexical Convention
12. APPENDIX
    1. GCube Security Model
    2. gHN Security Configuration
    3. Argus Configuration
    4. Policy Definition Portlet