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EDRN Sync Services

Project description

EDRN Sync provides an API for slurping up DMCC RDF representing EDRN users and registering those users into our EDRN IC LDAP server.

Installation

This document tells you how to install edrn.sync.

Quick Instructions

As a user with administrative privileges, run:

easy_install edrn.sync

That’s it.

Full Instructions

edrn.sync requires the Python programming language. We recommend version 2.4 or later. As of this writing, 2.6 is the latest stable version. If Python is not yet installed on your system, you can find binary and and source distributions from the Python website.

To test if a correct version of Python is available on your system, run:

python -V

You should see output similar to:

Python 2.6

indicating the version of Python installed. edrn.sync also requires Agile OODT. OODT is Object Oriented Data Technology, a framework for metadata and data grids. Agile OODT is a Python version of OODT that supports higher performance and easier integration than the Java version.

By far the easiest, recommended, and encouraged way to install edrn.sync is to use EasyInstall. If your Python installation has EasyInstall available to it, then this one command is all you need to run in order to download, build, install, and generate command-line tools all in one go for all users on your system:

easy_install edrn.sync

Be sure to run that command as an administrative user. For example, on Mac OS X and other Unix systems, you might need to run:

sudo easy_install edrn.sync

That will also download and install all dependencies, including Agile OODT.

Executables

The command dmccsync will be generated and placed with your standard installation directory for Python commands. Usually, this is the same location as the python executable itself. For example, on Mac OS X 10.5, the directory is:

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin

You may want to add that directory to your shell’s PATH variable, as well as forcing your shell to re-scan the PATH variable for new executables.

Installing EasyInstall

If you happen to be on a system where your Python installation lacks easy install, fret not. Upgrading your system to gain EasyInstall’s abilities is quite simple. Follow these instructions:

  1. Download http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py

  2. As an administrative user, run the freshly-downloaded ez_setup.py file using your system’s Python.

EasyInstall and its necessary libraries will be downloaded, built, and installed for you, and the easy_install executable generated. The location of the easy_install executable is as described above.

Installing Without EasyInstall

If EasyInstall is not available on your system, you can still make a proper installation of edrn.sync. Follow these instructions:

  1. Download the Agile OODT source distribution from http://oodt.jpl.nasa.gov/dist/agile-oodt/oodt-0.0.1.tar.gz. Substitute version numbers as appropriate.

  2. Download the edrn.sync source distribution from http://cancer.jpl.nasa.gov/dist/edrn-sync/edrn.sync-0.0.0.tar.gz. Substitute version numbers as appropriate.

  3. Unpack each archive.

  4. Change the current working directory to each newly-created subdirectory, oodt-0.0.1 and edrn.sync-0.0.0, again substituting version numbers as appropriate.

  5. As an administrative user, run: python setup.py install in each subdirectory.

Issues and Questions

To report any problems with or ask for help about edrn.sync, visit our contact web page.

Using EDRN Sync Services

Installing the EDRN Sync Services package makes available the following commands on your computer:

dmccsync command

The cdxls command lets you slurp up a DMCC RDF file containing users that need to be entered into EDRN IC LDAP.

Changelog

0.0.0 - Initial

This is an initial release of EDRN (_EDRN) Sync Services supporting minimal dmccsync functionality.

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