[Planetlab-users] New Experiment Manager App

[Tomas Isdal]

Dear PlanetLab users

We have created a PlanetLab Experiment Manager (PlMan) designed to simplify
the deployment, execution and monitoring of your PlanetLab experiment. The
application presents a simple GUI to perform common tasks such as:
* Selecting nodes for your slice.
* Choosing nodes for your experiment based on CoMon information about the
nodes.
* Reliably deploying you experiment files.
* Executing commands / sets of commands on every node in parallel
* Monitoring the progress of the experiment as a whole, as well as viewing
console output from the nodes.
* Reliable download of log files

For more experienced users PlMan offers a rich scripting interface that can
be used with or without GUI to perform batch mode operation. The scripting
interface uses XML-RPC communication to allow scripts to be written in, for
example, Perl, Python and Ruby, as well as Java and C/C++.

Check out the project homepage at:
http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/networking/cplane/

Or look at the brand new "Getting Started Tutorial" at:
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/isdal/plman/Tutorial/

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Tomas Isdal
University of Washington