Alliance Setup Package Requirements

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Alliance Setup Package Requirements

• Jim Basney
• jbasney_at_ncsa.uiuc.edu
• http//www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/jbasney/

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Alliance Certificate Authority

• Tools package
• Provides certificate request, retrieve, renew,
  and revoke commands
• Co-exists with other CA tools packages
• Naming convention for scripts and configuration
  files grid-cert-request (globus-cert-request?),
  ncsa-cert-request, ipg-cert-request,
  sdsc-cert-request
• User chooses commands for his or her CA

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Alliance Certificate Authority

• Certificate package
• Installs the Certificate Authoritys certificate
  in trusted certificate directory (directories?)
• Cluster issue trusted certificates directory
  must be deployed to all cluster nodes
• Provides Certificate Revocation List retrieval
  script
• Sites install a different certificate package for
  each trusted CA

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Information Services

• Virtual Organization (VO) Membership package
• Configures site to report to Virtual Organization
  (VO) Grid Index Information Service (GIIS)
• Multiple VO Membership packages must co-exist
  --Site may belong to multiple VOs