DPM Service Help

This page will collect all the necessary information and advice on how to :

• deploy the DPM in the context of the Service Challenges
• install, configure and run the DPM

Who should install the DPM ?

The lightweight Disk Pool Manager (DPM) is a solution for disk storage management. It is an alternative to dCache for sites having disk-only storage systems (especially Tier2s). It provides an SRM interface which is required at all Tiers in Service Challenge 3.

DPM installation and configuration

Please refer to the following information to find more details.

DPM admin guide https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/DpmAdminGuide

DPM reference https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/DataManagementDocumentation

Questions about the DPM ?

If you have any question or encounter any problem, please contact : hep-service-dpm@cernNOSPAMPLEASE.ch

Experiences with the DPM :

Please update this part with your own experience with the DPM !

Glasgow :

• http://wiki.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Disk_Pool_Manager

LAL (IN2P3) :

• http://grif.fr/article.php3?id_article=16. Quattor integration done.

Edinburgh :

• http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/storage/status/GridPPDPM/Ed_DPM.html

-- SophieLemaitre - 05 Sep 2005