Chapter 3. Getting Started

In order to prepare Gold for use as an allocation and accounting manager, you will need to perform some initial steps to define users, machines and projects, make deposits, etc. This chapter proceeds by offering a number of examples in performing these steps. These steps may be used as a guide, substituting values and options appropriate for your system.

It is assumed that you have already installed and bootstrapped Gold as an allocation and accounting manager and started the gold server before performing the steps suggested in this section.

Important

You will need to be a Gold System Adminstrator to perform the tasks in this chapter!

3.1. Define Users

First, you will need to define the users that will use, manage or administer the resources (see Creating Users).

Example 3-1. Let's add the users amy, bob and dave.

$ gmkuser -n "Wilkes, Amy" -E "amy@western.edu" amy

Successfully created 1 User
        

$ gmkuser -n "Smith, Robert F." -E "bob@western.edu" bob

Successfully created 1 User
        

$ gmkuser -n "Miller, David" -E "dave@western.edu" dave

Successfully created 1 User
        

$ glsuser

Name Active CommonName       PhoneNumber EmailAddress     DefaultProject Description 
------ --------- ------------------------ ---------------- ------------------------ --------------------- ---------------- 
gold True                                                                             Gold Admin  
amy  True   Wilkes, Amy                  amy@western.edu                                          
bob  True   Smith, Robert F.             bob@western.edu                                          
dave True   Miller, David                dave@western.edu