GENI Clearinghouse Operational Data

This page captures information for GENI Operators about the ​GENI Clearinghouse. The goal is to capture site contacts and connectivity.

Contacts

Contacts for the GENI Clearinghouse

Contact Name: Hussam Nasir, University of Kentucky

Contact Email: Hussamuddin Nasir

Contact Name: Tom Mitchell, GENI Project Office

Contact Email: ​tmitchell@geni.net

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Software

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. Detailed installation instructions can be found in the file INSTALL-centos.md. Software updates are installed via RPM using yum.

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Configuration Management

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.

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).

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Data Plane

The GENI Clearinghouse has no data plane connectivity.

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Control Plane

This section captures Control plane information for the GENI Clearinghouse detailing topology and network address information.

Control plane connectivity information

Public connectivity to the GENI Clearinghouse is provided by Amazon Web Services

• Amazon Region: US-east-1, Virginia
• IP: 52.207.161.119
• DNS: ch.geni.net

Firewall/IP tables

• TCP 443
• TCP 8443
• TCP 80
• TCP 22
• ICMP

Remote Console Access

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.