This page will guide you through Running a Complete Experiment in GENI. For this experiment you will need :
- A GENI Account. If you don't have one sign up. If you are at the GEC, get a temporary account.
- An Irods Account
- The tutorial VM. If you do not have it please find us and we will give you a copy.
That's, you are ready to run this experiment!
1. Login to Flack
We are going to use Flack a web-based graphical tool for reserving GENI resources. Your first step is to log in to Flack. This video will guide you through the steps of logging in.
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- Go to http://www.protogeni.net/flack and press the Log in button
- From the select authority drop down menu, select the site authority for your GENI account, most probably pgeni.gpolab.bbn.com and press the Download button
- Answer yes in the pop-up window
- Login to the new window using your GENI account
- Reload the Flack tab and repeat steps 1 and 2
- After your private key and certificate are loaded, type your GENI passphrase in the box
- Select the sites you want. For this tutorial we only need the utaemulab.cm site.
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= 2. Launch your experiment =
Now that you are logged in to Flack, we are ready to design our experiment. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5q-AYwggug&NR;=1 This video] will guide you through the process of setting up the resources for the Hello GENI experiment. To complete the setup you will need to save a copy of [attachment:hellogeni.rspec this file] on your computer. This is a [wiki:GENIExperimenter/RSpecs Resource Specification (rspec)] file that contains a description of this experiment for Flack.
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- After Flack finishes loading all the information, create a new slice by clicking New on the left of the screen, right under your user name. Name your slice something like xxxhello (where xxx are your initials)
- When an empty canvas shows up, you are ready to create an experiment. Click at the Import button on the top of the canvas and select Import from file
- Find the copy of this rspec file that you downloaded earlier and press ok
- A topology will come up, it will look different than the topology on the video. Your topology should look like
 . Press the Submit button and confirm that you want to reserve these resources.
- Wait while your resources are being reserved. This will take several minutes so be patient. When your sliver is ready the background will be green.
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= 3. Start instrumenting your Experiment =
