On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, David Grundy wrote: > Hello All: > > Scenario: > > Using Virtual Workspaces(VWS) TP1.3.2 in GT4.0.5 framework to deploy Xen > VMs to a remote cluster environment. Want to retrieve data from VMs. > As of yet VWS doesn't offer transfer of specific files or partitions and > the size of the disk images versus the amount of data makes the option > of transferring the entire image back quite unpleasant. I have > considered using scp but am concerned about private keys being available > in the remote cluster. I am considering the idea of using gridftp but I > am a little unclear of how this should be setup. > > I would like to do as minimal an install of GT4.X on the VM as possible > to be able to get the functionality. I have read through much of the > GT4.0 docs but am not sure of a couple of things. Can I have gripftp > setup on the VM without the need to have any hostkey or userkey on the > VM? Will this still be a secure transfer? I have been looking at > myproxy-server as a possible solution but I don't think I have this right.
If you have a proxy certificate on the VM, you can run a gridftp server with GSI security. You can use simpleCA to generate short-lived credentials on the VM or you can use myproxy to store your proxy from elsewhere and retrieve it on the VM. > > I have read through a lot of the documentation but have not been able to > get this to work. Any advice or suggestions would be greatly > appreciated. Please let me know if further information is required. > > Cheers, > > David > > >
