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Sign Me Up for the GENI Portal
Login to the Portal
The GENI Portal leverages InCommon to provide single sign-on authentication. If you are affiliated with a US college or University that is a member of the InCommon federation, simply login using your usual username and password to activate your GENI account. If you are not affiliated with an InCommon federated institution, you may request a GENI-only login.
Check if you can use your Institution's account
If you want to check whether your can use your Institution's account to login:
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If your Institution is not a member of InCommon
<table border="0" width="1000"> <tr> <td > If you want to check whether your can use your Institution's account to login: <ul> <li> Go to <a href="https://panther.gpolab.bbn.com"> the GENI Portal </a> and press the Use GENI button. </li> <li> "slappasswd" is a command line tool that is available on Macs and probably most Linux distributions. It will generate a string that begins with "{SSHA}". We need that entire string. </li> <li> This will transfer you to the familiar Login Page of your institution. If you get an error after you login please send us [mailto:portal-help@geni.net an email] with the error you got. </li> <li> If you successfully login, then follow the instructions in the next page, press Activate. <br/> <b> Congratulations, now you have a GENI Account </b> </li> </td> <td> Hi, My name is YOUR_NAME_HERE and I am a [YOUR_TITLE_HERE] at [YOUR_INSTITUTION_HERE]. I was not able to create a GENI account through my institution and I would like to get a GENI account. These are me personal information: * Username (max 8 chars, we can make this up if you don't have a preference) * First name * Last name * E-mail address * Phone number * Hashed password: Thanks, YOUR_NAME_HERE </td> </tr> </table>
If your institution is not a member of InCommon, then you can request a GENI only account.
Now what?
Congratulations! You have your GENI credentials and you're good to go.
If you're not sure how to proceed from here, you may want to try one of these GENI tools:
Flack is a graphical user interface for finding and requesting GENI resources. It runs in your browser.
- Visit the Flack page.
- Read the Flack tutorial.
- Watch these brief YouTube video tutorials.
Omni is a command-line tool for finding and requesting GENI resources. You download omni and run it on your computer.
- Find information on obtaining and using omni at the omni how to.
Once you are familiar with one of these basic tools, some sample experiments that you may want to try or modify are available at GENIExperimenterWelcome.