========== INSTALL
Assuming that you've set up your yum repo like for a myplc install,
you should be able to just

# yum install sfa-plc

========== CONFIGURE

---
Inspect your plc config:

[2009.06.09--1l-f8-32-vplc07] / # plc-config-tty 
Enter command (u for usual changes, w to save, ? for help) s PLC_ROOT_USER
PLC_ROOT_USER = root@test.onelab.eu
Enter command (u for usual changes, w to save, ? for help) s PLC_ROOT_PASSWORD
PLC_ROOT_PASSWORD = test++
---
sfa-config-tty

* set GENI_PLC_USER		to PLC_ROOT_USER 
* set GENI_PLC_PASSWORD		to PLC_ROOT_PASSWORD
write and quit

*NOTE* xxx at this point you get a warning b/c the authorities hierarchy has not been created yet; ignore
---
run gimport

[2009.06.09--1l-f8-32-vplc07] / # sfa-import-plc.py 
Import: creating top level authorities
Hierarchy: creating authority: plc
plc : 
Import: creating table for authority plc
NOTICE:  table "geni$plc" does not exist, skipping
  inserting authority record for plc

--- 
run sfa-config-tty again - to initialize /etc/sfa/authorities/plc/plc.pkey

[2009.06.09--1l-f8-32-vplc07] / # sfa-config-tty 
Enter command (u for usual changes, w to save, ? for help) q
                /etc/sfa/authorities/server.key
copied from     /etc/sfa/authorities/plc/plc.pkey
---


xxx tested this far xxx


Federation:
===========
edit /etc/sfa/aggregates.xml and /etc/sfa/registries.xml  
* set addr to ip or hostname of federated peer
* set port to geni service port on federated peer
* set hrn to humarn readable name of federated peer interface

trade trusted root gid's (found in /usr/share/geniwrapper/geni/trusted_roots/) 

Run:
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First run:
# initialize the registry by running the registry import tool 
python sfa-import-plc.py

# start the services
service sfa start

or 

sfa-server.py -r -d
sfa-server.py -a -d
sfa-server.py -s -d


Use:
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Copy my private PL (RSA) ssh key to ~/.sfi/quetier.pkey

Copy /etc/sfa/sfi_config in ~/.sfi
edit  sfi_config

export SFI_AUTH=ple.upmc
export SFI_USER=$SFI_AUTH.quetier
export SFI_REGISTRY=http://138.96.255.199:12345/
export SFI_SM=http://138.96.255.199:12346/

source sfi_config

./sfi.py list ple
./sfi.py show ple.upmc.quetier