A collection of various "How To" pages

Getting Help

• How to Connect to a GENI chat room

Instrumentation & Measurement

• How To Plot LabWiki Graph from a CSV File

UNIX Tips and Tricks

• Viewing Client Video on Your Local Machine

Using GENI

• How to Pick a Slice Name
• How to Login to Nodes
• Load the public key to your portal profile
• How to Write Install Scripts
• How to Create a Custom OS Image for InstaGENI
• How to Notify GMOC (for classes, tutorials, disruptive experiments)
• How To Reserve Resources using an Existing RSpec

Omni

• ​How to Specify Aggregates In Omni
• ​How to Specify RSpecs In Omni
• ​How to Leverage the CH API and Portal accounts in Omni
• How to Add Users to an `omni_config`
• How to use Omni during a Clearinghouse Maintenance

OpenFlow

• Install OpenFlow Dissector for WireShark
• OVS software switches
  • How to Install OVS in ProtoGENI
  • How To Create a Topology using OVS
  • How To Configure OVS With Layer 3 Routing
• Aggregate Hardware OpenFlow Switches
  • How To Use Hardware Switches and Shared VLANs
• Mesoscale Hardware OpenFlow Switches
  • How to Run OpenFlow tutorial
  • How to write OpenFlow v3 rspecs

RSpecs

• How to write OpenFlow v3 rspecs

Shared VLANs

• How to Share a VLAN (and How to Unshare A VLAN)
• How To Use Hardware Switches and Shared VLANs

Tutorials

• How to enable `ssh://` links in Firefox on Ubuntu
• How to Create a Tutorial VM

PlanetLab

• How to run a web server in PlanetLab
• How to Convert Ad RSpecs to Request RSpecs for PlanetLab

Geni-lib

• How to install and configure geni-lib
• How to generate RSpec using geni-lib

Index

Index of all pages under HowTo:

• HowTo/AddUsersAfterReservation
• HowTo/AddUsersToOmniConfig
• HowTo/ChangeIRODsPassword
• HowTo/ConfigureOVSStaticRouteMirroringNoController
• HowTo/ConfigureOVSWithLayer3Routing
• HowTo/ConfigureOVSWithLayer3Routing/outputs
• HowTo/ConnectToGENIChatRoom
• HowTo/ConvertPLAdToRequest
• HowTo/Convertv2tov3RSpecs
• HowTo/CreateOVSTopology
• HowTo/CreateTutorialVM
• HowTo/DelayTolerantNetworking
• HowTo/DeleteRoutesInstalledByInstaGENI
• HowTo/EnableSSHLinksFirefoxUbuntu
• HowTo/ForwardSSHAgent
• HowTo/ForwardVideoOverSSH
• HowTo/GenerateRSpecUsingGENILIB
• HowTo/GetAMSSLCert
• HowTo/IGGetExtraDIskSpace
• HowTo/InstallAnsibleInVB
• HowTo/InstallGeniLibInVB
• HowTo/InstallOVSInProtoGENI
• HowTo/InstallWireSharkOpenFlowPlugin
• HowTo/LabWikiGraphUsingCSV
• HowTo/LoadAnExistingRSpec
• HowTo/LoadPubKeyToPortal
• HowTo/LoginToNodes
• HowTo/ManageCustomImages
• HowTo/ManageCustomImagesExoGENI
• HowTo/ManageCustomImagesInstaGENI
• HowTo/MultiPointVLANOnOpenGENI
• HowTo/OpenFlow1.3
• HowTo/PickASliceName
• HowTo/PreReserveGENIResources
• HowTo/RunAWebServerInPlanetLab
• HowTo/RunNoxInFedora8
• HowTo/RunOFTutorial
• HowTo/SetupGENILIB
• HowTo/SetupOVSSwitch
• HowTo/ShareALan
• HowTo/ShareALanOnAHWSwitch
• HowTo/TestGENIEventNetwork
• HowTo/UseDropboxToTestInstallScripts
• HowTo/UseOmniDuringCHMaintenance
• HowTo/UseOpenFlowHWSwitchesIG
• HowTo/UseTheCLI
• HowTo/UseTheCLIForNetworking
• HowTo/WriteInstallScript
• HowTo/WriteOFv3Rspecs
• HowTo/WriteOFv3Rspecs/Examples
• HowTo/WriteOFv3Rspecs/Spec