wiki:GEC17Agenda/GettingStartedWithGENI_III_GIMI/Procedure/Execute

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Execute

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3. Initial Setup

3.1 Starting the OML Server (if needed)

For this tutorial we have an OML server running on emmy9.casa.umass.edu, which collects the measurement data in an sqlite3 database and at the end of the experiment it pushes the data to IRODS.

  • Here is how you would have to start an OML server if you wanted to run this on a different machine (OML2.8 is required.) DO NOT perform this task in the tutorial.

This is explained the [OML installation file].

$ /usr/bin/oml2-server -l 3003 --logfile=/var/log/oml2-server-2.9.log --user=oml2 --group=oml2 -H /usr/share/oml2-server/oml2-server-hook.sh

The latest version of OML offers the capability of executing a script after the measurement has finished. In OML terminology this is called a "hook". The hook script we use is attached at the bottom of this wiki page (oml2-server-hook.sh).

#!/bin/bash
#
# Example event hook for the OML server, copying an Sqlite database elsewhere
# when the last client has exited.
# Copyright 2012-2013 National ICT Australia (NICTA), Australia
#
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
# of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
# in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
# to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
# copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
# furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
#
# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
# all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
#
# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
# AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
# LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
# OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
# THE SOFTWARE.
#
irodsUserName=rods
irodsHost=emmy9.casa.umass.edu
irodsPort=1247
irodsZone=geniRenci
HOME=/home/oml2
export irodsUserName irodsHost irodsPort irodsZone HOME

LOGFILE=/tmp/oml2-server-hook.log
function log ()
{
	echo "$@" >&2
	echo "$@" >> ${LOGFILE}
}

# XXX: You might need to initialise the iRODS password for the UNIX user
# running tho oml2-server by running 'iinit' to create ~/.irods/.irodsA on its
# behalf for iput to work
IPUT=/usr/bin/iput
SQLITE3=sqlite3
PGDUMP=pg_dump

echo "OML HOOK READY"
log "OML HOOK READY"

while read COMMAND ARGUMENTS; do
	# One report line must be printed in each control path;
	# this first one puts out a timestamp and a dump of the received command, but no newline
	log -n "`date`: ${COMMAND} ${ARGUMENTS}: "
	case "${COMMAND}" in
		"DBCLOSED")
			case "${ARGUMENTS}" in
				file:*)
					DBFILE=${ARGUMENTS/file:/}
					log "${IPUT} ${OPTION} ${DBFILE}"
					NAME=${DBFILE:14:6};
					FILE=${DBFILE:14};
					LENGTH=${#FILE}
					SLICE=${FILE:0:$LENGTH-4}
					DATE=`date`
					log "b db ${DBFILE} closed, pushing to iRODS..."
					${IPUT} -f ${DBFILE} /geniRenci/home/$NAME/ #$FILE
					log "an iRODS operation finished"
					;;
				postgresql://*)
					# Separate the components of the URI by gradually eating them off the TMP variable
					
					DOMAIN=${ARGUMENTS//*\//}	# cut everything before the final '/'
					USERNAME=${DOMAIN/-*/}		# get the first part before the '-'
					REST=${DOMAIN/$USERNAME-/}	# remove the username from the rest
					EXPNAME=${REST/-*/}		# same as for the username
					TIMESTAMP=${REST//*-/}		# get the last part after the '-'

						
					TMP="${ARGUMENTS/postgresql:\/\//}"
					USER=${TMP/@*/}
					TMP=${TMP/${USER}@/}
					HOST=${TMP/:*/}
					TMP=${TMP/${HOST}:/}
					PORT=${TMP/\/*/}
					TMP=${TMP/${PORT}\//}
					DBNAME=${TMP}
					DBFILE=${DBNAME}.`date +%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S%z`.pg.sql
					log "PostgreSQL DB ${DBNAME} closed, dumping as ${DBFILE} and pushing to iRODS"
					log "User ${USER} Host ${HOST} Port ${PORT} DBNAME ${DBNAME} Home ${HOME}"
					${PGDUMP} -U ${USER} -h ${HOST} -p ${PORT} ${DBNAME} > /tmp/${DBFILE}
					log "Before IPUT"
					log "${IPUT} -f /tmp/${DBFILE} /geniRenci/home/rods/"
					log `${IPUT} -V -f /tmp/${DBFILE} /geniRenci/home/rods/ 2>&1`
					# ${IPUT} -f /tmp/${DBFILE} /geniRenci/home/rods/
					${IPUT} -f /tmp/${DBFILE} /geniRenci/home/${USERNAME}/experiments/${EXPNAME}-${TIMESTAMP}/measurements.sql
					log "After IPUT"
					;;
				*)
					log "DB ${ARGUMENTS} closed, but don't know how to handle it"
					;;
			esac
			;;
		"EXIT")
			log "Exiting"
			exit 0
			;;
		*)
			log "Unknown command"
			;;
	esac
done

At the following page we give the interested experimenter additional information on how they can run their own OML server independent of the one offered by GIMI.


3.2 Verification of Topology

After establishing the slice on which the experiment will be executed, the experimenter will be most likely be interested in verifying if the slice has been initiated correctly. In this tutorial, we use an http://emmy9.casa.umass.edu/GEC15-GIMI-Tutorial/step1-ping_all.rb OMF experiment script that executes pings between neighboring nodes.
The following figure shows that a total of 12 (between each pair of nodes and in each direction) ping are performed.

defProperty('source1', "nodeA", "ID of a resource")
defProperty('source2', "nodeB", "ID of a resource")
defProperty('source3', "nodeC", "ID of a resource")
defProperty('source4', "nodeD", "ID of a resource")
defProperty('source5', "nodeE", "ID of a resource")

#defProperty('sink1', "nodeA", "ID of a sink")
#defProperty('sink2', "nodeB", "ID of a sink")
#defProperty('sink3', "nodeC", "ID of a sink")
#defProperty('sink4', "nodeD", "ID of a sink")
#defProperty('sink5', "nodeE", "ID of a sink")

defProperty('sinkaddr11', '192.168.4.10', "Ping destination address")
defProperty('sinkaddr12', '192.168.5.12', "Ping destination address")

defProperty('sinkaddr21', '192.168.4.11', "Ping destination address")
defProperty('sinkaddr22', '192.168.2.12', "Ping destination address")
defProperty('sinkaddr23', '192.168.1.13', "Ping destination address")

defProperty('sinkaddr31', '192.168.5.11', "Ping destination address")
defProperty('sinkaddr32', '192.168.2.10', "Ping destination address")
defProperty('sinkaddr33', '192.168.3.13', "Ping destination address")
defProperty('sinkaddr34', '192.168.6.14', "Ping destination address")

defProperty('sinkaddr41', '192.168.1.10', "Ping destination address")
defProperty('sinkaddr42', '192.168.3.12', "Ping destination address")

defProperty('sinkaddr51', '192.168.6.12', "Ping destination address")

defApplication('ping_app', 'pingmonitor') do |a|
    a.path = "/root/pingWrap.rb" 
    a.version(1, 2, 0)
    a.shortDescription = "Wrapper around ping" 
    a.description = "ping application"
    a.defProperty('dest_addr', 'Address to ping', '-a', {:type => :string, :dynamic => false})
    a.defProperty('count', 'Number of times to ping', '-c', {:type => :integer, :dynamic => false}) 
    a.defProperty('interval', 'Interval between pings in s', '-i', {:type => :integer, :dynamic => false})

    a.defMeasurement('myping') do |m|
     m.defMetric('dest_addr',:string) 
     m.defMetric('ttl',:int)
     m.defMetric('rtt',:float)
     m.defMetric('rtt_unit',:string)
   end
end

defGroup('Source1', property.source1) do |node|
  node.addApplication("ping_app") do |app|
    app.setProperty('dest_addr', property.sinkaddr11)
    app.setProperty('count', 30)
    app.setProperty('interval', 1)
    app.measure('myping', :samples => 1)
  end

  node.addApplication("ping_app") do |app|
    app.setProperty('dest_addr', property.sinkaddr12)
    app.setProperty('count', 30)
    app.setProperty('interval', 1)
    app.measure('myping', :samples => 1)
  end
end

defGroup('Source2', property.source2) do |node|
  node.addApplication("ping_app") do |app|
    app.setProperty('dest_addr', property.sinkaddr21)
    app.setProperty('count', 30)
    app.setProperty('interval', 1)
    app.measure('myping', :samples => 1)
  end

  node.addApplication("ping_app") do |app|
    app.setProperty('dest_addr', property.sinkaddr22)
    app.setProperty('count', 30)
    app.setProperty('interval', 1)
    app.measure('myping', :samples => 1)
  end

  node.addApplication("ping_app") do |app|
    app.setProperty('dest_addr', property.sinkaddr23)
    app.setProperty('count', 30)
    app.setProperty('interval', 1)
    app.measure('myping', :samples => 1)
  end
end

defGroup('Source3', property.source3) do |node|
  node.addApplication("ping_app") do |app|
    app.setProperty('dest_addr', property.sinkaddr31)
    app.setProperty('count', 30)
    app.setProperty('interval', 1)
    app.measure('myping', :samples => 1)
  end

  node.addApplication("ping_app") do |app|
    app.setProperty('dest_addr', property.sinkaddr32)
    app.setProperty('count', 30)
    app.setProperty('interval', 1)
    app.measure('myping', :samples => 1)
  end

  node.addApplication("ping_app") do |app|
    app.setProperty('dest_addr', property.sinkaddr33)
    app.setProperty('count', 30)
    app.setProperty('interval', 1)
    app.measure('myping', :samples => 1)
  end

  node.addApplication("ping_app") do |app|
    app.setProperty('dest_addr', property.sinkaddr34)
    app.setProperty('count', 30)
    app.setProperty('interval', 1)
    app.measure('myping', :samples => 1)
  end
end

defGroup('Source4', property.source4) do |node|

  node.addApplication("ping_app") do |app|
    app.setProperty('dest_addr', property.sinkaddr41)
    app.setProperty('count', 30)
    app.setProperty('interval', 1)
    app.measure('myping', :samples => 1)
  end

  node.addApplication("ping_app") do |app|
    app.setProperty('dest_addr', property.sinkaddr42)
    app.setProperty('count', 30)
    app.setProperty('interval', 1)
    app.measure('myping', :samples => 1)
  end
end

defGroup('Source5', property.source5) do |node|
  node.addApplication("ping_app") do |app|
    app.setProperty('dest_addr', property.sinkaddr51)
    app.setProperty('count', 30)
    app.setProperty('interval', 1)
    app.measure('myping', :samples => 1)
  end
end

onEvent(:ALL_UP_AND_INSTALLED) do |event|
  info "Starting the ping"
  allGroups.startApplications
  wait 5
  info "Stopping the ping"
  allGroups.stopApplications
  Experiment.done
end

3.3 Setup Routing in Experiment Topology

In more complex topologies routing has to be set up. In our case, this is achieved with the aid of an http://emmy9.casa.umass.edu/GEC15-GIMI-Tutorial/step2-routing.rb OMF experiment script. The one we use for this tutorial is shown below.

defGroup('Node1', "nodeA")
defGroup('Node2', "nodeB")
defGroup('Node3', "nodeC")
defGroup('Node4', "nodeD")
defGroup('Node5', "nodeE")


onEvent(:ALL_UP) do |event|
  wait 1
  info 'Changing routing setup'

  group('Node1').exec("route add -net 192.168.1.0/24 gw 192.168.4.10")
  group('Node1').exec("route add -net 192.168.2.0/24 gw 192.168.4.10")
  group('Node1').exec("route add -net 192.168.3.0/24 gw 192.168.5.12")
  group('Node1').exec("route add -net 192.168.6.0/24 gw 192.168.5.12")
  group('Node1').exec("echo 1 >  /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward")

  group('Node2').exec("route add -net 192.168.3.0/24 gw 192.168.1.13")
  group('Node2').exec("route add -net 192.168.5.0/24 gw 192.168.4.11")
  group('Node2').exec("route add -net 192.168.6.0/24 gw 192.168.2.12")
  group('Node2').exec("echo 1 >  /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward")

  group('Node3').exec("route add -net 192.168.1.0/24 gw 192.168.3.13")
  group('Node3').exec("route add -net 192.168.4.0/24 gw 192.168.5.11")
  group('Node3').exec("echo 1 >  /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward")

  group('Node4').exec("route add -net 192.168.2.0/24 gw 192.168.3.12")
  group('Node4').exec("route add -net 192.168.4.0/24 gw 192.168.1.10")
  group('Node4').exec("route add -net 192.168.5.0/24 gw 192.168.3.12")
  group('Node4').exec("route add -net 192.168.6.0/24 gw 192.168.3.12")
  group('Node4').exec("echo 1 >  /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward")

  group('Node5').exec("route add -net 192.168.2.0/24 gw 192.168.6.12")
  group('Node5').exec("route add -net 192.168.1.0/24 gw 192.168.6.12")
  group('Node5').exec("route add -net 192.168.3.0/24 gw 192.168.6.12")
  group('Node5').exec("route add -net 192.168.4.0/24 gw 192.168.6.12")
  group('Node5').exec("route add -net 192.168.5.0/24 gw 192.168.6.12")

  info 'Routing setup finished'
  wait 5
  info 'Stopping applications'
  allGroups.stopApplications
  wait 1
  Experiment.done
end

This script can be easily adapted if the experimenter wishes to set up the routing between the nodes differently.

3.4 Verification of Routing

After establishing the routing, we use an http://emmy9.casa.umass.edu/GEC15-GIMI-Tutorial/step3-ping_e2e.rb OMF experiment script that executes pings between each pair of nodes that contains one hop, to verify the correctness of routing setup.

defProperty('source1', "nodeA", "ID of a resource")
defProperty('source2', "nodeB", "ID of a resource")
defProperty('source3', "nodeC", "ID of a resource")
defProperty('source4', "nodeD", "ID of a resource")
defProperty('source5', "nodeE", "ID of a resource")

defProperty('sinkaddr11', '192.168.1.13', "Ping destination address")
defProperty('sinkaddr12', '192.168.3.13', "Ping destination address")
defProperty('sinkaddr13', '192.168.6.14', "Ping destination address")

defProperty('sinkaddr21', '192.168.6.14', "Ping destination address")

defProperty('sinkaddr41', '192.168.4.11', "Ping destination address")
defProperty('sinkaddr42', '192.168.5.11', "Ping destination address")
defProperty('sinkaddr43', '192.168.6.14', "Ping destination address")

defProperty('sinkaddr51', '192.168.5.11', "Ping destination address")
defProperty('sinkaddr52', '192.168.2.10', "Ping destination address")
defProperty('sinkaddr53', '192.168.3.13', "Ping destination address")

defApplication('ping_app', 'pingmonitor') do |a|
        a.path = "/root/pingWrap.rb"
        a.version(1, 2, 0)
        a.shortDescription = "Wrapper around ping"
        a.description = "ping application"
        a.defProperty('dest_addr', 'Address to ping', '-a', {:type => :string, :dynamic => false})
        a.defProperty('count', 'Number of times to ping', '-c', {:type => :integer, :dynamic => false})
        a.defProperty('interval', 'Interval between pings in s', '-i', {:type => :integer, :dynamic => false})
        
        a.defMeasurement('myping') do |m|
            m.defMetric('dest_addr',:string)
            m.defMetric('ttl',:int)
            m.defMetric('rtt',:float)
            m.defMetric('rtt_unit',:string)
        end
end

defGroup('Source1', property.source1) do |node|
      node.addApplication("ping_app") do |app|
          app.setProperty('dest_addr', property.sinkaddr11)
          app.setProperty('count', 30)
          app.setProperty('interval', 1)
          app.measure('myping', :samples => 1)
      end
      
      node.addApplication("ping_app") do |app|
          app.setProperty('dest_addr', property.sinkaddr12)
          app.setProperty('count', 30)
          app.setProperty('interval', 1)
          app.measure('myping', :samples => 1)
      end

      node.addApplication("ping_app") do |app|          
          app.setProperty('dest_addr', property.sinkaddr13)
          app.setProperty('count', 30)              
          app.setProperty('interval', 1)                  
          app.measure('myping', :samples => 1)
      end
end

defGroup('Source2', property.source1) do |node|
    node.addApplication("ping_app") do |app|              
        app.setProperty('dest_addr', property.sinkaddr21)        
        app.setProperty('count', 30)            
        app.setProperty('interval', 1)                
        app.measure('myping', :samples => 1)                  
    end                
end

defGroup('Source4', property.source3) do |node|
      node.addApplication("ping_app") do |app|
          app.setProperty('dest_addr', property.sinkaddr41)
          app.setProperty('count', 30)
          app.setProperty('interval', 1)
          app.measure('myping', :samples => 1)
      end

      node.addApplication("ping_app") do |app|
          app.setProperty('dest_addr', property.sinkaddr42)
          app.setProperty('count', 30)
          app.setProperty('interval', 1)
          app.measure('myping', :samples => 1)
      end

      node.addApplication("ping_app") do |app|
          app.setProperty('dest_addr', property.sinkaddr43)
          app.setProperty('count', 30)
          app.setProperty('interval', 1)
          app.measure('myping', :samples => 1)
      end
end

defGroup('Source5', property.source3) do |node|
          node.addApplication("ping_app") do |app|
              app.setProperty('dest_addr', property.sinkaddr51)
              app.setProperty('count', 30)
              app.setProperty('interval', 1)
              app.measure('myping', :samples => 1)
          end

          node.addApplication("ping_app") do |app|
              app.setProperty('dest_addr', property.sinkaddr52)
              app.setProperty('count', 30)
              app.setProperty('interval', 1)
              app.measure('myping', :samples => 1)
          end

          node.addApplication("ping_app") do |app|
              app.setProperty('dest_addr', property.sinkaddr53)
              app.setProperty('count', 30)
              app.setProperty('interval', 1)
              app.measure('myping', :samples => 1)
          end
end

onEvent(:ALL_UP_AND_INSTALLED) do |event|
      info "Starting the ping"
      allGroups.startApplications
      wait 5
      info "Stopping the ping"
      allGroups.stopApplications
      Experiment.done
end

4. Running Actual Experiment

We will use an http://emmy9.casa.umass.edu/GEC15-GIMI-Tutorial/step4-otg_nmetrics.rb OMF experiment script to execute oml enabled traffic generator and receiver (otg and otr) to simulate network traffic, and use oml enabled nmetrics to measure the system usage (e.g., CUP, memory) and network interface usage on each of the participated ExoGENI nodes.

The one we use for this tutorial is shown below.

defProperty('theSender','nodeB','ID of sender node')
defProperty('theReceiver1', 'nodeE', "ID of receiver node")
defProperty('theReceiver2', 'nodeA', "ID of receiver node")
defProperty('theReceiver3', 'nodeD', "ID of receiver node")
defProperty('packetsize', 128, "Packet size (byte) from the sender node")
defProperty('bitrate', 2048, "Bitrate (bit/s) from the sender node")
defProperty('runtime', 40, "Time in second for the experiment is to run")

defGroup('Sender',property.theSender) do |node|
    options = { 'sample-interval' => 2 }
    node.addPrototype("system_monitor", options)
    node.addApplication("test:app:otg2") do |app|
        app.setProperty('udp:local_host', '192.168.2.10')
        app.setProperty('udp:dst_host', '192.168.6.14')
        app.setProperty('udp:dst_port', 3000)
        app.setProperty('cbr:size', property.packetsize)
        app.setProperty('cbr:rate', property.bitrate * 2)
        app.measure('udp_out', :samples => 1)
    end
    
    node.addApplication("test:app:otg2") do |app|
        app.setProperty('udp:local_host', '192.168.4.10')
        app.setProperty('udp:dst_host', '192.168.4.11')
        app.setProperty('udp:dst_port', 3000)
        app.setProperty('cbr:size', property.packetsize)
        app.setProperty('cbr:rate', property.bitrate * 2)
        app.measure('udp_out', :samples => 1)
    end
    
    node.addApplication("test:app:otg2") do |app|
        app.setProperty('udp:local_host', '192.168.1.10')
        app.setProperty('udp:dst_host', '192.168.1.13')
        app.setProperty('udp:dst_port', 3000)                                    
        app.setProperty('cbr:size', property.packetsize)                                            
        app.setProperty('cbr:rate', property.bitrate * 2)                                                    
        app.measure('udp_out', :samples => 1)                                                        
    end
end

defGroup('Receiver1',property.theReceiver1) do |node|
    options = { 'sample-interval' => 2 }
    node.addPrototype("system_monitor", options)

    node.addApplication("test:app:otr2") do |app|
        app.setProperty('udp:local_host', '192.168.6.14')
        app.setProperty('udp:local_port', 3000)
        app.measure('udp_in', :samples => 1)
    end
end

defGroup('Receiver2',property.theReceiver2) do |node|
    options = { 'sample-interval' => 2 }
    node.addPrototype("system_monitor", options)
    node.addApplication("test:app:otr2") do |app|
        app.setProperty('udp:local_host', '192.168.4.11')
        app.setProperty('udp:local_port', 3000)
        app.measure('udp_in', :samples => 1)
    end 
end

defGroup('Receiver3',property.theReceiver3) do |node|     
    options = { 'sample-interval' => 2 }
    node.addPrototype("system_monitor", options)
    node.addApplication("test:app:otr2") do |app|                    
        app.setProperty('udp:local_host', '192.168.1.13')
        app.setProperty('udp:local_port', 3000)                                
        app.measure('udp_in', :samples => 1)                                    
    end
end

onEvent(:ALL_UP_AND_INSTALLED) do |event|
    info "starting"
    wait 5
    allGroups.exec("ln -s /usr/local/bin/otr2 /usr/bin/otr2")
    allGroups.exec("ln -s /usr/local/bin/otg2 /usr/bin/otg2")
    allGroups.exec("ln -s /usr/local/bin/oml2-nmetrics /usr/bin/oml2-nmetrics")
    allGroups.startApplications
    info "All applications started..."
    wait property.runtime / 4
    property.packetsize = 256
    wait property.runtime / 4
    property.packetsize = 512
    wait property.runtime / 4
    property.packetsize = 1024
    wait property.runtime / 4
    allGroups.stopApplications
    info "All applications stopped." 
    Experiment.done
end



5. LabWiki

LabWiki is a tool which provides a user-friendly interface to visualize your experiment. To know more about LabWiki please visit LabWiki
LabWiki can be used to Plan, Prepare and Run your Experiment.

5.1 Login using OpenID

If you are logged in to the GENI Portal you will be logged in to LabWiki automatically when you click Login.

Otherwise please enter the same username and password you use for the GENI Portal

There is a link to LabWiki now available through the GENI Portal or you can click here to use LabWiki

Figure (1)

Send your information. This allows LabWiki to use the GENI Portal ID to log you in to LabWiki.

Figure (2)

5.2 Plan

After you have successfully been signed in you will be able to see a screen like the one below.

Figure (3)

The left column could contain the steps to run the experiment or general information about the experiment.
The scripts are written using a simple markdown scripts.

Figure (4)

5.3 Prepare

In the Prepare column, you can select the experiment that you want to execute. In this column you will also be able to edit your experiment script.

Figure (5)

After editing, click on the save icon at the top of the column to save your script.
Next, click and drag the icon at the top left corner over to the right column Execute.

5.4 Execute

Here, you can start your experiment and Visualise it. In the name tab, type in the name you wish to give the experiment. Your name should only consist of alphanumeric characters. Only '_' is allowed as a special character.

5.4.1 Add a Context

If you do not want to create a new context, skip this step.

At the top-right corner there is a button called 'Add Context'. This allows you to create an Experiment context which can be useful when you want to store related experiments in the same folder with associated metadata. This Context can then be browsed using the iRODs web interface.

Give the context a name, as shown below and click on 'Save':

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5.4.2 Run Experiment

Give your task a name. Select the Project, Experiment Context and Slice from the drop down menu on the screen.

Then scroll towards the bottom of this column and under the tab named Graph, type 'true'.This enables the graph view on your execute column.

Once the experiment starts running you will be able to scroll down and view the graph.

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Click on 'Start Experiment' at the bottom of the screen.

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After a couple of seconds, you can see the graph at the bottom of the screen.

At any point during the run of your experiment, click on Dump at the top of the Execute column to save your experiment data in iRODs.

You can click and drag it to the Plan screen just above Figure 1. This will display the graph along with the experiment description. This graph is also dynamic.
This allows you to add any comments or details about the experiment results.
Similarly, Experiments 2 and 3 can be run using the same procedure. Experiment 2 does not have a graph.

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Once you have your slice up and running you can visualize any experiment using LabWiki.

Next Step: Finish Experiment

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