Installation

UNICORE 6

This page contains some installation instructions for UNICORE 6 components.

Core server bundle

To use UNICORE 6, you need a Java 5 JRE/SDK or later. If not already installed on your machine, you can download it from Sun's website. It might also be necessary to install the "unlimited strength cryptography" extensions for Java, also available from the Sun download site.

The installation of UNICORE should be done under a non-privileged userid. All services should be started under a normal userid (not root) except for the TSI, in case it should act on behalf of the users.

The graphical installer is started by
java -jar unicore-servers-VERSION.jar
(or on Windows by double clicking the jar file). A series of screens will be shown allowing you to select the installation directory, configure hostnames, ports, select which components you wish to install, etc.

Windows note: the UNICORE 6 server components are started as services, probably you need administrator rights to do that.

The core server bundle is also available as a tar.gz bundle. To install using this, untar the package in a directory of your choice.
An installation script 'configure.py' is available that will configure the components. If you want to customize the installation, review the "configure.properties" file, which contains all the ports and other settings.
In the simplest case, the core server bundle is installed on a single machine. To install, do
./configure.py [login] [hostname]
where [login] is the Unix account that the installation shall use, and the optional [hostname] indicates which hostname shall be used. If not given, a hostname lookup will be performed.

Rich client

Installation instructions can be found here.

Commandline client

Installation instructions can be found here.