Argus Policy Administration Point (PAP) Installation

EMI Installation

To deploy the Argus PAP for EMI, Please follow the documentation Argus Deployment for EMI

gLite 3.2 Installation

Prerequisites

• A working Java 5 installation. Use java -version to determine your Java version.
• a recent version of openssl (>0.9.7) installed on your system
• LCG trusted Certificate Autorities certificates installed. In SL4, the lcg-ca package provides those certificates.
• a valid, PEM encoded X509 certificate issued by a trusted CA.

gLite 3.2 Installation

The PAP component is installed in /opt/argus/pap.

1. Execute the command: yum install glite-ARGUS
2. In your YAIM site-info.def configuration set:
   • the ARGUS_HOST property to the hostname of the machine on which you are installing
   • the PAP_ADMIN_DN property to the subject DN of the user certificate of the individual who will maintain the PAP and use the pap-admin command
   • the USERS_CONF, GROUP_CONF, and VOS property to their appropriate values for your site
3. Run YAIM using the command yaim -c -s site-info.def -n ARGUS_server

Manual Installation

1. Download the latest version version of the software.
2. Expand the downloaded archive to the /opt/argus directory.
   • This resulting installation directory /opt/argus/pap will be referred to, in the documentation, as PAP_HOME
3. Add the PAP_HOME/bin to your PATH in order to use the PAP startup and administration scripts