== A. Establish Environment ==

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=== A.1 Establish experiment managment (user workspace) service ===

 * Bring up tutorial VM and log in.[[BR]]
   User: geniuser, PW: gec15user (ATTENTION account and PW for VirtualBox are different from those for GENI credentials. The latter will be handed out to you at the beginning of the tutorial!)
 * Open Firefox web browser
 * Open a terminal window
 * The software required for this tutorial is already installed in the tutorial VM.
 * Download GIMI tutorial specific configuration files by issuing the following command in a user workspace terminal:
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=== A.2 Gather necessary keys, certificates and credentials ===
For the specific case of this tutorial all necessary keys, certificates and credentials have already been set up 
and configured for the tutorial accounts (gimi1-gimi30). [[http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GENIUserWorkspace/ConfigCredentials Here]] you can find more detailed information on the 
credential management and configuration.

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=== A.3 Verify availability of desired aggregates ===

''MZ: For this tutorial I think that should be covered in part B.''

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=== A.4 Verify availability of desired software images/packages ===

The following software packages and scripts required for this tutorial are already installed on the VM:

 * Git repository (git://github.com/johren/GENI-UserWorkspace.git) 
  * located at ~/Tutorials/GIMI/common
  * contains: 
   * GIMI scripts
   * Resource Description Files (RDF) for Flukes
 * OMF EC, RC, AM (version 5.4)
 * OML server, iperf, nmetrics (version 2.8)
 * R
 * iRODS client (version 3.1)
 * ExoGENI Software:
  * Link to Flukes on the desktop
  * .flukes.properties in /home/geniuser

These additional tools and libraries are also installed on the VM:
 * python-m2crypto
 * git
 * vim
 * screen
 * emacs
 * apache2
 * adobe-flashplugin
 * python-dev

Any further software packages that might be required for other experiments have to be installed by the 
experimenter.

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=== A.5 Verify availability of necessary operational services, and access to those services ===

 * IRODS: To test if the iRODS client can connect to the iRODS server simply execute the following command:

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As a result the content of our iRODS home directory should be listed:

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$
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In [http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GIMIv1.1Tutorial/Toirods part E] of the tutorial, we introduce the iRODS web portal, which offers an alternative way of verifying if the iRODS service is up and running.

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=== 1)  Establish experiment environment ===

1.1)  Establish experiment managment (user workspace) service

1.2)  Gather necessary keys, certificates and credentials

1.3)  Verify availability of desired aggregates

1.4)  Verify availability of desired software images/packages

1.5)  Verify availability of necessary operational services, and access to those services

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