INSTOOLS Evaluation

The INSTOOLS V3.3 software evaluated has been downloaded from hhttp://www.uky.emulab.net/downloads/INSTOOLSv3_3.tgz, this link was obtained from the [ ​http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/Instrumentize Instrumentize ] wiki page

The version of INSTOOLS evaluated required Fedora Core x

Time Frame: This evaluation took place starting September 14th

INSTOOLS Findings

INSTOOLS How-to

The INSTOOLS v3.3 package software was found by reviewing the ​August2011 status report . From the status page, users are redirected to the ​INSTOOLS summary page, where the user can find that the package and documentation are found at ​Instrumentize page.

Downloaded the ​INSTOOLS V3.3 package, which contains both the INSTOOLS python scripts and it supporting documentation. After downloading and unpacking the package, reviewed the docs/README and the docs/INSTOOLSf-SETUP files for additional instructions.

Set up the prerequisites which require:

• placing the file SSL Certificate encrypted.pem and the password files in ~/.ssl/ directory.
• creating a file .protogeni-config.py defining the XMLRPC_SERVER value.

Create an experiment. Note: this step creates a slice and assigns resources to the slice:

$ ./createExp.py -n neverslice2 -m https://www.uky.emulab.net/protogeni/xmlrpc/cm uky.rspec 
CMURI = https://www.uky.emulab.net/protogeni/xmlrpc
Got my SA credential
No such slice registered here:Creating new slice called neverslice2
New slice created

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./createExp.py", line 149, in <module>
    current_slice_expiration = datetime.datetime(*time.strptime(instools_util.findSliceExpiry(slicecred, debug,LOGFILE),"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S")[0:6])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/_strptime.py", line 454, in _strptime_time
    return _strptime(data_string, format)[0]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/_strptime.py", line 328, in _strptime
    data_string[found.end():])
ValueError: unconverted data remains: Z

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