People undertaking this hands-on session will be given different machines onto which they will install dCache. Users may use different User Interface (UI) machines. Because of this, these handouts uses place-holder names when talking about a particular node.

The Fully-Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) dcache-node.fzk.de is used as a place-holder for the machine on which you will be installing dCache. So, if you have been given the machine gks-1-103 on which to install dCache you should replace all occurances of dcache-node.fzk.de with gks-1-103.fzk.de

For many configuration options, the machine's name can be used instead of the FQDN. To indicate this, these handouts will use dcache-node. When following the instructions, or comparing what you see with what is documented, you should substitute all dcache-node with your node's name. If your node's FQDN is gks-1-103.fzk.de then all dcache-node should be replaced by gks-1-103.

Some dCache components use the name of the node on which they are running within their name. In this document, these are also substituted by the placeholder value (dcache-node). For example, the SRM Domain is written in these handouts as srm-dcache-nodeDomain. If the SRM Domain is running on the node gks-1-103.fzk.de, this domain is actually srm-gks-1-103Domain and that name should be used instead.

When logging onto the machine gks-1-103 (as the root user), the prompt you will see will depend on your choice of shell. One common choice is a prompt like [root@gks-1-103 ~]# . However, in this document, a root prompt on the dCache node is represented as [root@dcache-node] #.

The prompt shown when logging onto the User Interface (UI) node is represented as [user@ui-node] $. The UI node is never referred to directly from the dCache configuration.