Before you begin working with Globus Connect Personal, you will need to have logged in to Globus and if you don’t have one already, set up your Globus account by logging into and configuring Globus Online. Additionally, you will need administrative access to your machine. If you do not normally have access to install software on your UWYO owned computer, contact the UWYO IT Helpdesk at 307-766-4357 and they may grant you temporary administrative access for the installation.
If you already have access to Globus, using a non-UW account, you should link your UWYO account to your other existing Globus logins.
Once you have a UWYO associated Globus account, you may begin to configure Globus Connect personal. This downloading and installing the Globus Connect Personal software, performing initial setup, and configuring both the software and your collections.
Installation guides explaining how to install Globus Connect Personal are provided from Globus and are available as follows:
Install Globus Connect Personal for Linux
A recent Linux distribution is required. Supported distributions include CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Linux Mint, openSUSE, Red Hat, and Ubuntu. If the distributor has End-Of-Lifed your distribution, Globus Connect Personal may not work. To use the GUI frontend to Globus Connect Personal, Tcl/Tk must be installed.
Globus Connect Configuration
Once Globus Connect has been installed, you will be prompted to log in with your Globus Identity. A web browser window will be launched prompting for login and you will be prompted to configure your collection on your computer.
Collection details should autofill with your account information, and you will need to name your collection - usually information identifying the computer you’ve just set up and a description further identifying the computer and the data you’re planning on uploading through Globus.
Click to save your collection details. Now you will be shown a Setup Successful screen, with a link to “show collection details”. Click on that link.
When you click on the link, you will be taken to your collection’s information page. The only things filled in will be the name and (optionally) the description you entered during initial setup, as well as your Globus identity (as the owner of the collection).
Most of the fields are empty, and a few should be filled in. Click on the Edit Attributes button, and make the following changes:
Change the Contact E-mail to be your email address.
Change the Organization to University of Wyoming, and change the Department to be the name of your Group (such as your Lab or Research Entity), or your Department.
If your machine has access to Moderate Risk data, Force encryption should be set at “Yes”.
Once your changes are saved, configuration is complete and your Globus Connect personal collection is configured to provide access to you only.