Globus Connect Personal Grid FTP Guide for New User

Overview

Globus Connect Personal (GCP) is a small desktop app that turns your desktop, laptop or other pc into a Globus end point. With GCP you can transfer files to or from your laptop or pc. GCP is available for all major operating systems and installs and authenticates to your Globus account.

The following are the steps for installing and configuring GCP and then performing a first file transfer to a TERN QRISCloud collection. ** the terms collection and endpoint are often used interchangeably by Globus. A short Globus video tutorial can also be found here.

This document focuses on Globus Connect Personal. There is also a server edition Globus Connect Server (GCS) which can be configured to transfer data between lab clusters, campus research computing systems, or other multiuser HPC facilities. GCS will be covered by a separate investigation and user guide.

Steps for Globus Connect Personal

Step 1. TERN Admin needs to invite you as a collaborator to the TERN QRIS Cloud data collection. Once accepted, TERN Admin will configure permissions and notify you that everything is OK to proceed. If you are not invited to upload data, contact esupport@tern.org.au.

Step 2. Log into the Globus web application (https://app.globus.org/ )

Step 3. Click Endpoints > Create a personal endpoint

If this is not available to you, follow the instructions on https://docs.globus.org/faq/globus-connect-endpoints/#what_is_an_endpoint

Step 4. Click to download Globus Personal (users operating system should be detected). After download is complete, install Globus Personal.

Step 5. Run the newly installed GCP application from your desktop and click the Log In button. you will be directed to the Globus Consents Page.

Step 6. In the consents page, add a label for future reference and click the Allow button

Step 7. Next confirm your identity and give your local collection a name. Then click Save.

Step 8. Your end point is now created.

On Windows: to set the root directory of your local collection, go to Options on your local GCP windows app. The default is your local home directory.

On Mac: to set the root directory of your local collection, go to Preferences on your local GCP app. The default is your local home directory.

Step 9. Back inside the Globus Web Application (https://app.globus.org/ ). Confirm that your endpoint exists by navigating to endpoints and selecting the Administered By You tab. our new endpoint should appear.

Step 10. Perform a transfer by selecting File Manager in the left hand menu. In the left pain select your local endpoint and files or directories to transfer. In the right hand pain search for the QRISCloud Data end point and choose the Q4647 collection that you have been given access to. Use the Transfer or Sync to button to transfer data between the two endpoints.

Step 11. Monitoring a transfer

Globus has comprehensive transfer monitoring tools which can be found under the Activity tab in the left hand menu. The Overview tab gives the overall status. The Event Log tab gives an output every minute.