UC-VO-ILDG-data-management
From EGI Knowledge Base
Use Case title: Data management client operations on different platforms
Short description: The use of gLite software is essentially restricted to a small set of Linux flavours. For a data grid like ILDG it would be of major benefit to have data management client tools available for a larger set of unix platforms.
Actors involved:
Steps:
- Perform sign-on, i.e. generate proxy certificate.
- Manipulate content of file catalogue.
- Up- or download data from a storage element, delete files from a storage element, replicate data between storage elements.
Middleware involved:
- Tools for managing proxy certificates
- Data management client tools (e.g. gridftp, srmcp, GFAL, lcg-util)
Applications involved: No non-standard appications are involved.
