Experimenter Tools

GENI experimenter tools cover a range of topics:

• resource reservation tools are used to create slices, add (or remove) resources to slices, and often to draw experimental topologies,
• instrumentation and measurement tools are used to measure statistics on your nodes and orchestrate the experiment procedure,
• services running on GENI are applications which run on GENI but which are available to GENI experimenters,
• monitoring tools provide insight into the resource utilization of GENI itself, and
• GENI-federated and outside tools are resources or testbeds available to experimenters with GENI credentials.

Resource Reservation Tools

• GENI Portal and Jacks A web-based interface for managing accounts, projects, slices, and resource reservations.
  • Tool: ​GENI Portal
  • Tutorial: ​Hello GENI
  • Tutorial: ​Lab Zero with Jacks
• jFed A java based resource registration tool that runs on your local machine.
  • Linked from the GENI Portal
  • Tutorial: ​Lab Zero with jFed
• Omni A command line resource reservation tool.
  • Install: ​Omni
  • Tutorial: ​Hello Omni
• geni-lib A python library for creating RSpecs and reserving resources. Useful for experimenters or developers who want to build their own tools.
  • Install: ​geni-lib library
  • Tutorial: ​Configuration and introductory tools
• WiMax

Instrumentation and Measurement Tools

• GENI Desktop Measure and graph statistics on your slice.
• LabWiki An experiment orchestration tool.

Services Running on GENI

• GENI Experimenter Engine (GEE) Start an experiment in under 5 minutes.
• Virtual Topology Service (VTS)
  • Tutorial: ​VTS tutorial

Monitoring Tools

The ​GENI Meta Operations Center (GMOC) is actively working in deploying a monitoring infrastructure that is going to be available to all experimenters. Stay tuned for more info!

In the meantime, if you want to monitor outages of GENI resources register for the ​GMOC Google Calendars for scheduled and unscheduled outages.

GENI-federated and outside tools

• CloudLab Build your own cloud.
  • Tutorial: ​CloudLab Tutorial