Introduction

In this page we assume that you've already read and understood what's explained in WLCGDataTransferMonitoring. It will mostly cover the technical details and procedures necessary for a programmer to be able to deploy and work on the XRootD Dashboard.

Before starting

NOTE: Legend of colors for the examples:

GRAY background for the commands to execute  (cut&paste)

GREEN background for the output sample of the executed commands

BLUE background for the configuration files (cut&paste)

Consumer

Procedure to start XRootD Dashb agent

Once logged in as root:

sudo - dboard

/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/simplevisor --conf /opt/dashboard/etc/dashboard-simplevisor/consumer-simplevisor.cfg --daemon start
/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/simplevisor --conf /opt/dashboard/etc/dashboard-simplevisor/services-simplevisor.cfg --daemon start
dashb-agent-restart xrootd_< vo >             # Where < vo > should be replaced by one of the following: cms, atlas...

XRootD Dashb agent log file

The main log file, where the informations about the messages workflow and the agent status are, is at:

/opt/dashboard/var/log/dashb-xrootd_< vo >.log

-- CristovaoCordeiro - 11 Jul 2014