Testing GEMINI on the GENI desktop using different credentials

I began by going through the GENI desktop tutorial but quickly encountered issues. It was later determined that the rspec in the tutorial is from a previous version(v2) and is no longer supported by UNIS.

My emulab.net credentials allowed me to access the the GENI desktop quite easily. Launching flack from these credentials was also straight forward. However, when I tried to initialize my slices the results varied drastically. Sometimes they would easily initialize. Other times I would not be able to initialize at all so I would logout of the desktop and log back in. Then it allowed me to initialize my slice. Often I would get an error telling me that there was no global node found even when there was.

Once my slice was initialized and I was on the desktop, the instrumentize icon didn't appear. Eventually it did appear when I logged out and then back on. A few times the instrumentizing occurred without me pressing the icon. I had a difficult time getting the graphs to appear also but was eventually able to figure it out.

My portal account did not give me easy access into the GENI desktop. I was able to use copy and paste my credentials into it to gain access. Flack did not save these credentials so when it was launched from the desktop it was not ready to use. It asked for certificates that I am still unsure of. The Adobe Flash plugin frequently crashed when Flack was launched under these credentials as well. I am also unable to initialize my slices created through the portal.

Two VMs with GEMINI

​rspec

	Date	Login	Create Slice	Initialize	Instrumentize	Generate Graphs
GENI Portal	5/17/13	Passed	Failed (no user certificate)	Passed*	Passed	Passed
PGENI Account	5/16/13	Passed	Passed	Passed	Passed	Passed (delay sometimes)

*Able to initialize slice created using Flack within the Portal.

Three VMs with GEMINI

​rspec

	Date	Login	Create Slice	Initialize	Instrumentize	Generate Graphs
GENI Portal	5/17/13	Passed	Failed (no user certificate)	Passed	Passed	Passed
PGENI Account	5/17/13	Passed	Passed (1)	Passed (inconsistant)	Passed	Passed

Jeanne's W(4 nodes)

​rspec

	Date	Login	Create Slice	Initialize	Instrumentize	Generate Graphs
GENI Portal	5/17/13	Passed	Failed (no user certificate)	Passed	Passed	Passed
PGENI Account	5/16/13	Passed	Passed	Passed	Passed	Passed

5 VMs in path with GEMINI

​rspec

	Date	Login	Create Slice	Initialize	Instrumentize	Generate Graphs
GENI Portal	5/20/13	Passed	Failed (no user certificate)	Passed	Passed	Passed
PGENI Account	5/20/13	Passed	Passed	Passed	Passed	Passed

4 VMs in star with GEMINI

​rspec

	Date	Login	Create Slice	Initialize	Instrumentize	Generate Graphs
GENI Portal	5/20/13	Passed	Failed (no user certificate)	Passed	Passed	Passed
PGENI Account	5/20/13	Passed	Passed	Passed	Passed	Passed

4 VMs in diamond on two AM with GEMINI

​rspec

	Date	Login	Create Slice	Initialize	Instrumentize	Generate Graphs
GENI Portal	5/20/13	Passed	Failed (no user certificate)
PGENI Account	5/20/13	Passed	Passed	Passed	Passed	Passed

Testing using Firefox on Unbuntu.

⁽¹⁾Previously the following error would appear at global node:

Error: gethostbyname(UNKNOWN) failed
TMCC exited with status 256!
***WARNING:Could not get boss info from TMCC
*** /usr/local/etc/emulab/rc/rc.bootsetup: Could not determine the name of the boss server!

IRODS: experimenting with iticket

On koneil1:

iticket for Two_VMs(read): gjqdnx1jCgIa3Of
with command: iget -t gjqdnx1jCgIa3Of /tempZone/home/koneil1/rspecs/Two_VMs.xml

iticket for Two_VMs(write):MgQjgYCEF3QcYxD
with command:

iticket for Five_VMs(5 uses): Szq5EQhyFUBiJLm
with command: iget -t Szq5EQhyFUBiJLm /tempZone/home/koneil1/rspecs/Five_VMs_in_path.xml

iticket for folder ThreeNodes(read): n1aluV2Hfu8u4CH
with command: iget -t n1aluV2Hfu8u4CH /tempZone/home/koneil1/rspecs/ThreeNodes/Three_VMs.xml Also: xtLtronjIwev5nM

iticket for folder ThreeNodes(write): L1rxQbUFVSCgNYT
with command: iput -t L1rxQbUFVSCgNYT FILENAME /tempZone/home/koneil1/rspecs/ThreeNodes/

iticket for folder ThreeNodes(read/write): 1ILfkJjY0DtgB40 (iticket create read/write ThreeNodes)
with command: iget -t n1aluV2Hfu8u4CH /tempZone/home/koneil1/rspecs/ThreeNodes/Three_VMs.xml
with command: iput -t L1rxQbUFVSCgNYT FILENAME /tempZone/home/koneil1/rspecs/ThreeNodes/

On koneil2:

iticket for Sample Doc (write): wX1AOi4X6eoyR8t (iticket create write Sample\ doc.odt)
with command:

iticket for Four_VMs (read): TyXFhe7WR5pcRPj (iticket create read Four_VMs_in_star.xml)
with command: iget -t TyXFhe7WR5pcRPj /tempZone/home/koneil2/Four_VMs_in_star.xml

The iget command puts file in currently directory on computer.