Direct Access to the SE

Sometimes it is necessary to directly look at the files as they are on the storage element. As an example from lxplus or cern desktop accessing the grid cvmfs repo

source /cvmfs/grid.cern.ch/emi-ui-3.7.3-1_sl6v2/etc/profile.d/setup-emi3-ui-example.sh
voms-proxy-init --voms ilc
export LFC_HOST=`lcg-infosites --vo ilc lfc`
gfal-ls srm://dcache-se-desy.desy.de/pnfs/desy.de/ilc/fcal
srmls -l srm://dcache-se-desy.desy.de/pnfs/desy.de/ilc/fcal/

The srm URL can be obtained from dirac-dms-lfn-replicas. If the srm or gfal commands do not work, there is probably something wrong with the SE, or the file is not there any longer.

-- AndreSailer - 2014-10-29