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GENI Desktop Tutorial (Summer Camp 2015 UConn)

This tutorial consists of three parts:

  • Basic GENI Desktop Operations
  • Brief Introduction to OpenFlow
  • Flow Installation and Monitoring in GENI Desktop

Important URLs

To use the GENI Desktop, go to https://genidesktop.netlab.uky.edu
A general tutorial for the GENI Desktop http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GENIExperimenter/Tutorials/GENIDesktop
This page is located at http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GeniDesktop/Summer_Camp_2015

I. Basic GENI Desktop Operations

  • Part I: Setup
    • Follow the instructions of the general GENI Desktop tutorial to create a topology with three Xen nodes as shown below.

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  • Part II: Excute
  • Step 1: Copy a file to the selected nodes.
    • Download these two files (attachment:runs, attachment:runc) to a local directory.
    • Click "File Upload"
    • Click on "Browse" on the upright part of the window, Select both files you downloaded (runs, runc)
    • Click on "Upload Files to GENI Cloud"
    • Highlight two nodes (A and B) in the topology window (click, then shift-click)
    • Click on "Set Selected Nodes"
    • Click on "Distribute" (The process is done when two green bars show up and then disappear)
    • Close the window for file upload
  • Step 2: Run a command on the selected nodes.
    • Click on "Command"
    • Highlight all three nodes (A, B, and C)
    • Click on "Set Selection"
    • Type "sudo apt-get install iperf" in the text box.
    • Click on "Run Command" (The process is finished when green check mark appears)
    • Close the window for run command
  • Step 3: Monitor the traffic of the selected interface.
    • Click on "Passive Graphs"
    • From the drop-down menu for "Nodes", pick "B"
    • From the drop-down menu for "Graphs", pick "IP Traffic" and "TCP Graph"
    • Click on "LiveUpdate" to make it "LiveUpdate(On)"
    • Click on "ApplyConfig"
    • Scroll to show the traffic figures (IP and/or TCP)
    • Leave the traffic window there (Do not close it)
  • Step 4: Login by ssh to the selected nodes.
    • Highlight node B
    • Click on "SSH"
    • Click on "Open Browser SSH"
    • Make sure file "runs" is there. Then type "sh runs".
    • Go back to GENI Desktop Tab/Window
    • Make sure the information window is open.
    • Mouse over the link connecting nodes A and B, and write down the IP address of B.
    • Highlight node A
    • Click on "SSH"
    • Click on "Open Browser SSH"
    • edit file "runc" and replace "IPaddr" with the IP address of B.
    • Type "sh runc"
    • Go back to GENI Desktop Tab/Window. Observe the traffic window.
    • You can go to the tab/window for A and type "sh runc" mulitple times. See what happens in the traffic window.
  • Part III: Finish
    • Teardown experiment

II. Introduction to OpenFlow

A brief introduction to OpenFlow can be found at [ ]

III. Flow Installation and Monitoring

  • Part I: Setup
    • Step 1: Create two slices, one for the controller and one for an experiment using OVS nodes.
      • For the controller slice, drag one "AAG Controller" node to the canvas. Check "Public IP address" box for the controller node.
      • For the experiment slice with OVS nodes, create a topology consisting of of three OVS nodes and two Xen nodes as shown below.
    • Step 2: Figure out the public IP address of the controller after the controller slice is created.
    • Step 3: Run an initialization script " " on all OVS nodes in the experiment.
  • Part II: Execute
    • Step 1: Install, list, and delete flows on the experiment
      • Click on "Flow Install". Fill in the IP address of the controller.
      • Select a path in the topology and highlight it.
      • Fill in the form to set the flow.
      • You can also try list and delete flows.
    • Step 2: Monitor per-flow performance
      • Click on "Flow Monitor".
      • Choose a flow to monitor at a selected node.
      • Send traffic (ping, iperf, etc) from end host A to end host B in the experiment.
  • Part III: Finish
    • Teardown experiment

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