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Lab Zero: A First Experiment Using GENI
1. Establish the Environment
1.1 Pre-work: Create a GENI account
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Figure 2-1 Logging into the GENI Experimenter Portal. |
Congratulations, you have successfully created a GENI account.
1.2 Pre-work: Project lead adds you to a project
In order to use the portal to reserve resources, you must join a project. We have created a project for this tutorial.
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1.3 Generate and Download SSH Keypair
Access to compute resources in GENI is provided through ssh key pairs and thus the portal needs a public key to upload to compute resources. For the purposes of the tutorial we will have the portal create an SSH key pair for you. (However, if you prefer to use your personal public key you can choose to upload it.)
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Figure 2-4 Download an SSH Key Pair. |
Mac OS X/Linux
- Now, click the Download Private Key button.
- In a command line terminal, move your key to the appropriate location and ensure that it has the right permissions by typing (replacing ~/Downloads/ with actual location if necessary):
mv ~/Downloads/id_geni_ssh_rsa ~/.ssh/. chmod 0600 ~/.ssh/id_geni_ssh_rsa
- (Mac and Linux only) Finally, add this key to the ssh agent by typing:
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_geni_ssh_rsa
Windows PuTTY
- Now, click the Download PuTTY Key button, and save the key to your computer.
- Later you will need to remember the location of the key.
Windows FireSSH
- Now, click the Download Private Key button, and save the key to your computer.
- Later you will need to remember the location of the key.
1.4 Launch jFed
- Go back to the Tools menu at the top of the GENI Portal page
- Click jFed to start up the jFed tool.