Data Dispatcher Client Installation and Configuration

Data Dispatcher Client Installation and Configuration#

Installation#

To install the Data Dispatcher client, use pip command:

$ pip install --user datadispatcher_client

or if using Fermi Spack:

$spack install data-dispatcher

Alternatively:

$ git clone https://github.com/fermitools/metacat.git
$ cd metacat
$ python setup.py install --user
$ cd ..
$ git clone https://github.com/fermitools/data_dispatcher.git
$ cd data_dispatcher
$ python setup.py install --user

If using --user, make sure your ~/.local/bin is in your PATH

Configuration#

To configure the client, you need to define the following environment variables:

  • DATA_DISPATCHER_URL - URL for Data Dispatcher data server

  • DATA_DISPATCHER_AUTH_URL - URL for Data Dispatcher authentication server

  • METACAT_SERVER_URL - URL for MetaCat data srever

For DUNE, the values are:

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