Summary

It took me 3 working days to install the Globus 4.2.1 from sources (without Globus sources' compilation as it was done after my work on Thursday (on wembley) and Friday (on gobo)).

This installation was on almost newly installed machines Xen-Debian-Lenny and included installation on both machines (wembley and gobo) all prerequisites.

I followed the quickstart installation guide. The most time I spent during configuration especially security issues. The most errors resulted from not right directories (from copy&paste instead of situation-specific i.e. related to my globus location on gobo or wembley). The authentification and autorization is unclear to me partially since it looks as I need to renew certificates.

On wembley (the first installation) I installed and tested (according to the quickstart guide that it works):
- MyProxy server
- GridFTP
- RFT
- GRAM4

On gobo (the second installation) I installed and tested (according to the quickstart guide that it works):
- GridFTP
- Webservices
- GRAM4
- VO-level services
- index service hierarchy
- I configured the WebMDS (for reporting)

The quickstart was very precise, I found one error (missing etc directory when running globus-users-env.sh). There is an instruction about removing credentials from the MyProxy (during the second installation) but I am not sure if this is the error.

I needed to renew certain certificates. But I do not know yet which ones.