Web Toolkit - The full featured client

• Certificate management
• General information
• Gateway information
• File management
• Batch job management
• Management of events
• Management of ECtrans transfers
• Management of ECtrans associations
• Execution return codes

The Web Toolkit, previously known as ECaccess shell commands or ECtools, is a set of Perl scripts for the management of files, file transfers, jobs, ectrans associations and events at ECMWF. They can be run by any user and on any Member State host.

The Web Toolkit is using SOAP to access the ECaccess web server.

Running these commands requires a valid certificate. The command ecaccess-certificate-create will create a certificate in the user's home directory ($HOME/.eccert.crt) from an ECMWF user identifier and a passcode (generated by a security token).

You need to ensure the following environment parameters are set with the correct values:

ECACCESS_HTTP=gateway.meteo.ms:9080
ECACCESS_HTTPS=gateway.meteo.ms:9443

(e.g. if your local ECaccess Gateway name is "gateway.meteo.ms" and you are using the default ECaccess http/s ports 9080/9443)

The default values are pointing to the ecaccess.ecmwf.int server.

Your gateway administrator can provide other default values for these parameters. However, your environment variables take precedence over these default values.

If the directory containing the Web Toolkit commands is not in your command path or you do not know the directory in which the commands are installed, try running the "ecaccess-gateway-name" command. If the command is not available, you will need to contact your Computing Representative, your local ECaccess administrator - if known - or User Support at ECMWF. Alternatively, you may wish to install the Web Toolkit yourself (see http://www.ecmwf.int/services/ecaccess/download/).

The ECaccess Tools are organized in sets covering access to the whole computing and archiving facilities of ECMWF and are described in the following sections. Each command is documented with its own man page which provide explanation as well as examples on how to use it.

The following options are common to all the Web Toolkit commands: