Changes between Version 23 and Version 24 of GENIExperimenter/Tutorials/GENIDesktop/GEC23/GENIDesktop_CLI

Timestamp:

06/10/15 13:18:36 (9 years ago)

Author:

Hussamuddin Nasir

Comment:

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GENIExperimenter/Tutorials/GENIDesktop/GEC23/GENIDesktop_CLI

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 On the Account page, Under the <b>GDCLI Downloads</b> section, please click on the appropriate installer for your operating system. We currently have installers for MAC OS, Windows and Ubuntu/Debian (or any other debian based Linux OS). If you are using any other OS and have python 2.7 or greater (python 3.0 not supported), you can go ahead and use the python version of the GDCLI.
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-<tr><td>Click on the <b> INSTALL Instructions</b> link above the download links and follow the relevant section for your Operating system</td></tr>
+<tr><td>Click on the <b> INSTALL Instructions</b> link above the download links and skip to STEP 4 (Installing) and follow the section for your Operating system</td></tr>
 <tr><td>If installed correctly you should be able to run the <b>"gdcli version"</b> command </td></tr>
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 GENI Desktop Command Line Interface v1.16
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+If you do not see this output or run into any error , please ask for help.
+ 
  == STEP 2. Generate and Download GDCLI key. ==
+  If you never used the GENIDesktop CLI Tool before, you will have to first generate a gdcli key which is an authentication token used by the system. To do this, Please click the "generate key" button under '''GDCLI Key''' Section on the accounts page. 
+  Then click on the "Download Key" link to save the gdcli.key file on your machine. Please note the location you downloaded this file since it will required in the next step.
+
  == STEP 3. Enable the GDCLI using the GDCLI key. ==
+ Run the command below to authenticate your CLI session using the gdcli.key just downloaded.
+
+{{{
+ gdcli authfile -p <PATH to gdcli.key file>
+}}}
+
+NOTE:  This should only be the path. Please **DO NOT** include the filename "gdcli.key" in the path provided above  
+
  == STEP 4. Using GENIDesktop CLI ==