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Tip When you are done with your experiment it is always good to clean up and release your resources so other people can use them.
}}} == 8. Archive Experiment == a. If your experiment worked, save your `site.txt` and `siteX.xml` files in version control. == NEXT! Grow Your Experiment! == Now that you have successfully reserved a small topology, you can now grow your topology. a. Make a copy of `site.txt`. {{{ cp site.txt bigsite.txt }}} a. Edit `bigsite.txt` to have more nodes in the core star topology. {{{ num_nodes = 5 }}} a. Also change the nodes listed under `[host]` to include all of nodes `2-5`. {{{ node_list=2,3,4,5 }}} a. Go back to the [../DesignSetup Design/Setup] and repeat everything from [../DesignSetup#a3.1GenerateRSpecbasedonexistingsmallertopology Step 3.1.d] onward. a. How would you go about making a topology besides a star? What if you wanted to install different software on one of the nodes? {{{ #!html
Tip Look at the readme.txt and the files in geni-lib/samples/create_rspec/rspec_config for clues.
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