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| 2 | |
| 3 | = GENI Clearinghouse Operational Data = |
| 4 | |
| 5 | This page captures information for GENI Operators about the [https://ch.geni.net GENI Clearinghouse]. The goal is to capture site contacts and connectivity. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | == Contacts == |
| 8 | |
| 9 | Contacts for the GENI Clearinghouse |
| 10 | |
| 11 | Contact Name: Hussam Nasir, University of Kentucky |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Contact Email: nasir@netlab.uky.edu |
| 14 | |
| 15 | |
| 16 | Contact Name: Tom Mitchell, GENI Project Office |
| 17 | |
| 18 | Contact Email: tmitchell@geni.net |
| 19 | |
| 20 | ----- |
| 21 | |
| 22 | == Software == |
| 23 | |
| 24 | The GENI Clearinghouse software is available at https://github.com/GENI-NSF/geni-chl. Software releases, including RPMs and changes, can be found under the "Releases" tab. |
| 25 | Detailed installation instructions can be found in the file INSTALL-centos.md. Software updates are installed via RPM using `yum`. |
| 26 | |
| 27 | ----- |
| 28 | |
| 29 | == Configuration Management == |
| 30 | |
| 31 | The GENI Clearinghouse host runs CentOS 7. Packages are updated periodically as part of software updates. Privileged host accounts are created and managed by the University of Kentucky staff. |
| 32 | |
| 33 | The current clearinghouse version can be determined by the `get_version` call to the MemberAuthority or the SliceAuthority services. Information about how to invoke these calls can be found in the Omni documentation available at https://github.com/GENI-NSF/geni-tools. The clearinghouse version corresponds to one of the releases found on the geni-ch !GitHub repository (see above). |
| 34 | |
| 35 | ----- |
| 36 | |
| 37 | == Data Plane == |
| 38 | |
| 39 | The GENI Clearinghouse has no data plane connectivity. |
| 40 | |
| 41 | ----- |
| 42 | |
| 43 | == Control Plane == |
| 44 | This section captures Control plane information for the GENI Clearinghouse detailing topology and network address information. |
| 45 | |
| 46 | === Control plane connectivity information === |
| 47 | Public connectivity to the GENI Clearinghouse is provided by Amazon Web Services |
| 48 | |
| 49 | * Amazon Region: US-east-1, Virginia |
| 50 | * IP: 52.207.161.119 |
| 51 | * DNS: ch.geni.net |
| 52 | |
| 53 | === Firewall/IP tables === |
| 54 | |
| 55 | * ''TCP 443'' |
| 56 | * ''TCP 8443'' |
| 57 | * ''TCP 80'' |
| 58 | * ''TCP 22'' |
| 59 | * ''ICMP'' |
| 60 | |
| 61 | === Remote Console Access === |
| 62 | |
| 63 | There is no access to a remote console on Amazon Web Services. AWS allows access to the last 64KB of console output via the EC2 console and via command line APIs. |