Changes between Version 3 and Version 4 of Software/eAM/dFrisbee

Timestamp:

Sep 11, 2014, 4:44:30 PM (10 years ago)

Author:

ssugrim

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Software/eAM/dFrisbee

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 == Frisbee Aggregate Manager ==
+
+''' Installation '''
+The Frisbee AM (tools and services) is packaged in the omf-aggmgr-frisbee-5.4 package. It can be installed form the package repository with
+{{{
+apt-get install omf-aggmgr-frisbee-5.4
+}}}
+
+Instructions on how to add the Orbit software repository to your list of apt-sources can be found [http://www.orbit-lab.org  here].
+
+----
+''' Usage '''
+
 Frisbee is the tool we use to manipulate disk images. The 3 main components are:
 
-''' imagezip '''
-Imagezip generates the disk images. It requires that you boot into a PREOS, either via a cdrom/usb flash drive or PXE. Orbit primarily uses PXE. 
+ * ''' imagezip ''' - Imagezip generates the disk images. It requires that you boot into a PREOS, either via a cdrom/usb flash drive or PXE. Orbit primarily uses PXE. 
 
-''' frisbee '''
-Frisbee is the tool that writes the image onto a disk, the image is received via a network multicast. It must only be run in the PREOS.
+ * ''' frisbee ''' - Frisbee is the tool that writes the image onto a disk, the image is received via a network multicast. It must only be run in the PREOS.
 
-''' frisbeed '''
-Frisbeed is the daemon that sends the disk image to nodes in the network. It's run from the server that houses your images. 
+ * ''' frisbeed ''' - Frisbeed is the daemon that sends the disk image to nodes in the network. It's run from the server that houses your images.
+
+You will not need to use these tools manually. This service coordinates with the PXE service and the node agent to start/stop Frisbee clients and daemons when needed. It only manges the pool of multicast address used for pushing images.
 
 More information can be found at [http://www.emulab.net/software.php3 Emulab] and [https://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/papers/frisbee-usenix03-base.html  CS Utah]
+
+
+----
+''' Comments '''
+ * Currently the Frisbee tools only work with EXT3/EXT2 file systems. Using newer file systems will result in images of size 0.
+
+