Testing Quantum's Xcellis Stornext appliance as an iRODS resource

1. Add a NAS share by creating either a SMB/CIFS or NFSv3 type share on your appliance.

   1.1 To create an SMB/CIFS type share

   BHM:node1> share create smb test1 /stornext/snfs1/test1 write list = <userid>
   

   1.2 To create an NFSv3 type share

   BHM:node1> share create nfs test2 /stornext/snfs1/test2 
   

   1.3 Login to the NAS CLI over SSH and change permissions for the created shares

   sudo chmod 777 -R /stornext/snfs1/test2
   

2. Mount the created share on your iRODS system.

   2.1 Install required packages cifs-utils or nfs-common

   Ubuntu:

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
   sudo apt-get install nfs-common
   

   2.2 Create a local directory to act as a mount point

   mkdir -p /mnt/smb
   

   or

   mkdir -p /mnt/nfs
   

   2.3 Add entries in /etc/fstab to make the mounts permanent

   For the CIFS/SMB protocol:

   \\<ipaddress>\test1 /mnt/smb cifs  username=<userid>,password=<password>,noauto,rw,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0666  0 0
   

   For the NFSv3 mount:

   \\<ipaddress>:/stornext/snfs1/test2 /mnt/nfs  nfs    defaults 0 0
   

3. Clone this repository into /tmp on the iRODS server

cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/irods/irods_testing_quantum_xcellis

4. Move the test file into the iRODS test directory

sudo mv /tmp/irods_testing_quantum_xcellis/test_quantum_xcellis_resource.py /var/lib/irods/scripts/irods/test/

5. Change the owner of the test file

sudo chown irods:irods /var/lib/irods/scripts/irods/test/test_quantum_xcellis_resource.py

6. Run the test file as the irods service account (will take ~10 minutes)

sudo su - irods -c "python scripts/run_tests.py --run_specific_test test_quantum_xcellis_resource"