Enterprise Grid Integration Set up

Once you have installed an Enterprise Grid product on a GridLink farm and wish to share the farm between AXIS and other Grid enabled applications, you can simply run GridLink Utility, select the menu "Farm Profile - Farm Settings", click on "Enterprise Grid" page and specify a few parameters.

Please note that you need to restart GridLink service after making the changes. 

DataSynapse GridServer

1. Prerequisites

Before you select GridServer integration mode, please make sure:

1. GridServer Manager has been installed and configured properly.

2. GridServer Engine has been installed on every server on the GridLink farm. Please use "1-Click Install With Properties" and specify the "User Name" property as the same as the server name.

3. GridServer SDK/Driver have been installed on every server on the GridLink farm. You must include the directory where certain DLLs (built with Visual Studio .Net 2003, e.g. DSBridgeVC71.dll, DSDriverVC71.dll, etc.) are located into the "PATH" environment variable. A typical example is "C:\GridServerSDK-win32\cppdriver\bin\vc71".

4. Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable is installed on every server on the GridLink farm.

5. If you are using GridServer 5.1, please note that "Client Authentication" is enabled by default. Please refer to "GridServer Administration Guide" about how to configure the Driver with a valid grid User identify that is associated with a Driver Profile.

2. Settings in GridServer

The integration requires a new Service Type "GridConnector" (using a DLL "GridConnector-GS-SRV.DLL", which comes with the GridLink installation package) to be registered in GridServer. Please follow the instructions below:

1) Run GridServer Administration Tool.

2) Select the menu "Users - Credential Repository".

3) Enter the user name of the GridLink service account (the format is "DomainName/UserName", please note that it is a FORWARD SLASH), enter the password and then click on "Add" button.

4) Select the menu "Services - Resource Deployment", click on "win32 - lib - Staging View", browse the file GridConnector-GS-SRV.DLL, and click on "Upload". When you see "Deploy" button, click on it.

5) Select the menu "Services - Service Type Registry", enter a new "Service Type Name" as "GridConnector", specify the "Implementation" as "dynamicLibrary", then click on "Add" button.

6) Fill in the "Service Type Registry" form (you can use the default value for fields not listed below):

Field Name	Value
Name	GridConnector
Type	dynamicLibrary
[Provider]
LibraryName	GridConnector-GS-SRV
freeMethod
unloadNativeLibrary	True
[ContainerBinding]
initMethod	init
cancelMethod	cancelMethod
destroyMethod	destroy
appendStateMethods
setStateMethods	setMemory
serviceMethods	keepAlive,getMemory
xmlSerialization	False
targetPackage
RunAsUser	the GridLink service account
[Description]
serviceName	GridConnector

3. Settings in GridLink Utility 

Please note that the DLL "GridConnector-GS.DLL" that comes with GridLink installation package can only work with GridServer 4.2. If you are using GridServer 5.1, please download this file from here:

http://www.ggy.com/GridLink/Downloads/GridServer5.1/GridConnector-GS.DLL

save it to the directory where you have installed GridLink Utility, run GridLink Utility and select the menu "Service - Upgrade Service" to install the new file on all servers.

In GridLink Utility, after you have selected "DataSynapse GridServer", please specify the "config" directory of the GridServer Driver (where driver.properties is located) in the "Environment Variable DSDRIVER_DIR" edit box. Click on OK and then restart the service.

 

Platform EGO

1. Prerequisites

Before you select Platform EGO integration mode, please make sure:

1. The Master Host has been installed and configured properly.

2. All servers on the GridLink farm have been added into the grid as Compute Hosts.

2. Settings in GridLink Utility 

In GridLink Utility, after you have selected "Platform EGO", please specify the grid configuration directory in the "Environment Variable EGO_CONFDIR" edit box, and also provide a GridLink job configuration file in XML format. Click on OK and then restart the service.

 

Microsoft WCCS Server 2003/HPC Server 2008

1. Prerequisites

Before you select WCCS/HPC Server integration mode, please make sure:

1. WCCS/HPC Server has been installed and configured properly.

2. All servers on the GridLink farm have been added into the cluster as Compute Nodes.

3. If you are using HPC Server 2008, please make sure that the DAO360.DLL hotfix has been installed (please refer to the online KB article Microsoft Service Pack Alert).

4. If you are using HPC Server 2008, please note that it is supported in AXIS 12202002, 12199005, 12099010 or later versions.

2. Settings in GridLink Utility 

In GridLink Utility, after you have selected "MS Windows Compute Cluster Server (HPC)", please specify the Head Node Name, User Name (with domain, e.g. DomainName\UserName, please note that it is a BACKWARD SLASH). Click on OK and then restart the service.