PhEDEx Home Page

PhEDEx: Physics Experiment Data Export. A system that we use to track the location of each dataset and request data transfers from one site to another. Here is a brief description of the project.

How to install, configuration, troubleshooting, support, registration

• For Users:
  • Subscribing data to a node
  • PhEDEx User Frequently Asked Questions
  • Deleting data in a node
  • PhEDEx User Data Monitoring
• For Site Admins:
  • How to report PhEDEx transfer problems
  • Setting up a brand new site
  • PhEDEx Authentication Role
  • PhEDEx Agent Installation(correct title?)
  • Installing the FTS3 CLI for PhEDEx
  • Agent configuration
  • Configuring the FileDownload FTS3 backend
  • 1 Certificates, Delegated Proxies and My Proxy
  • Proxy management for PhEDEx
  • Trivial File Catalogue
  • PhEDEx Master script
  • Transfer Troubleshooting checklist for Site Admins
• For Central Operations:
  • New Operator Checklist
  • Creating and Injecting LoadTest07 samples
  • Creating a LoadTest sample
  • Data Transfer Scripts
  • PhEDEx operations notes
  • Administering PhEDEx
  • Finding and resolving deadlocks
  • Transfer management Policies
• Developers:
  • Releasing PhEDEx
  • Setting up a custom testbed with the LifeCycle agent
  • Deploying PhEDEx in a Virtual Machine
  • Deploying an empty PhEDEx TMDB schema
  • using POE with PhEDEx
  • Generalised Request Approval - a thought
• Site Managed Documents:
  • Hamburg:
    • Data transfer with PhEDEx
  • KIT:
    • PhEDEx Log Setup at GridKa
    • Monitoring of data transfers
    • GridKa Debugging Information - PhEDEx
    • Getting expert's help with Phedex
    • HOWTO: PhEDEx Agents Start/Stop(?no content?)
    • PhEDEx Data Consistency Checks at GridKa
    • HOWTO: PhEDEx Request Approval
    • Running Phedex at GridKa
    • GridKa Phedex support FAQ
    • Trivial File Catalog (TFC)
    • HOWTO: PhEDEx Upgrade
  • CERN:
    • CMS computing services at CERN: PhEDEx services

• PhEDEx Agents Releases
• Agents and what they do
• PhEDEx LoadTest: The Next Generation

• PhEDEx Development Meetings
• PhEDEx pending projects
• PhEDEx plan for 2016
• PhEDEx Manpower
• File replica invalidation agent
• Schema improvements

• Integration and validation testing for PhEDEx, DBS and DAS with the PhEDEx LifeCycle agent
• Firewall Tests on vocms01
• PhEDEx transfer of heavy ion run 2015 data to Vanderbilt T2

• PhEDEx Transfer Plots for Publication