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Understanding the AM API using Named Data Networking

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1. Design the Experiment

  1. In today's experiment you will use resources at the aggregate listed on the worksheet. If you don't have a worksheet, use the closest Instageni rack to the first letter of your name (i.e. if your name starts with the letter C, pick a rack that starts with C). This will help to prevent that too many users choose the same rack and eventually the rack will run out of resources.

2. Establish the Environment

Note if you have completed Lab Zero and configured Omni you can skip to Section 3 - Obtain Resources.

2.1 Pre-work: Ensure SSH keys are setup

Verify that you have at least one public key associated with your account. To do that, after you login to the portal check under your Profile, under the SSH keys tab. If you do not have SSH keys associated yet, please follow the instructions on that tab of the Portal.

2.2 Configure Omni

  1. Login to the GENI Portal
  2. Click on your name in the upper right hand corner, then select the `Profile tab` menu item. Then click on the `Configure omni` tab under `PROFILE`.

Figure 2-1 Click on the Configure omni tab under Profile.
  1. Click on the `Download your omni data` button under step 2.

Figure 2-2 Download your omni data under step 2.
  1. If this is the first time you try to access your GENI certificate you will have to generate one. Click on the `generate a certificate` link.

Figure 2-3 Click on Generate a certificate.
  1. Unless you really understand how SSL certificates work, choose the simple option. Click on the `Generate Combined Certificate and Key File` button and then click on `Close`. You will be taken back to the download page with the warning. Reload the page to enable the download button. If you are a member of more than one project, select which project you would like to be the default one for running experiments in GENI. You can always change the project that is used by the `-r` command line option of Omni.

Figure 2-4 Click on Generate Combined Certificate and Key File.
  1. Then click on `Download your omni data`.

Figure 2-5 Click on Download your omni data.
  1. The bundle will be saved at ~/Downloads/omni.bundle
  2. Open a terminal window and type:
    omni-configure
    The cert and key files you need will be installed in the appropriate folders.

3. Obtain Resources

3.1 Create a slice

Create a slice using omni and the slice name of your choice. From now on that slice name will be referred to as SLICE_NAME.

$ omni createslice SLICE_NAME 

3.2. Load a simple topology in Jacks

For this exercise, we will edit an existing RSpec file. Start by loading this predefined topology into Jacks.

  1. In the Portal, open the Slice page for the slice you just created. Notice that you created the slice with omni and it is available via the Portal.
  2. Press the Add Resources button to launch Jacks for this slice.
  3. From the Choose RSpec menu (see figure), select the URL button.
Import an RSpec into Jacks
Figure 3-1 Import an RSpec into Jacks.
  1. Enter the URL for the RSpec:
    http://192.1.242.151/files/lab1-ndn-rspec.xml
    then click Select.
  2. After you click Select, a network topology should appear on the canvas.

3.3. Modify the RSpec to automatically install and execute software

Insert comments here. We do on all but one nodes. User does on the remaining node.

3.4. Export your RSpec

Now we will pull back some of the covers and inspect exactly what Jacks has been doing for us when preparing the RSpecs for the experiments we design. Each node and link has a corresponding element in the RSpec, and the details of the component configuration (such as the install and execute services) are specified with attributes, or sometimes child elements, within those portions of the document.

  1. From the Add Resources window (see figure), select the View Rspec button on the top right hand side. This will bring up a pane showing the current RSpec -- please take a moment to inspect it. The `<node>` and `<link>` elements contain the specification for the components we will request, and if you look closely, you will be able to see the install and execute service elements you added earlier. Click on the "View RSpec" button again to return to the main screen.

Figure 3-4 View and save the final request RSpec
  1. Use the Download button (in the lower left part of the screen next to Save RSpec) to make a local copy of your RSpec with the name rspec.xml. We'll use this in the next step to demonstrate how other client tools also use RSpec files to communicate requests to aggregate managers.

3.5. Instantiate the new experiment using Omni

For this step, we'll change the approach a bit and switch to a new client tool, the command line Omni client. From a terminal, please enter the command:

$ omni -a AM_NICKNAME createsliver SLICE_NAME RSPEC_FILE 

where AM_NICKNAME is the nickname for your assigned aggregate manager and SLICE_NAME is the name of the slice you created earlier (both of these are given on your worksheet). RSPEC_FILE should be replaced with the filename of the RSpec you saved in step 3.4. If all is well, Omni should give you a number of informational messages, such as:

INFO:omni:Loading config file /home/geni/.gcf/omni_config 

It should quickly proceed to the point where it makes the request to the remote manager:

INFO:omni:Creating sliver(s) from rspec file /home/geni/Downloads/experiments.rspec for slice ... 

This step can sometimes be time-consuming, so please be patient. If it succeeds, within a couple of minutes Omni should report:

INFO:omni: Completed createsliver: 

and your resource reservation is complete!


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