[Planetlab-users] how to automate installation of software on PlanetLab nodes

[Sankardas Roy]

Hi Matthias,

Thanks for your reply. Yes, I used "multiquery, multicopy" before. My
understanding is "multiquery, multicopy" do not guarantee successful
completion. In my case, the whole installation process on each PlanetLab
node has more than 10 sub-steps while each sub-step installs one package
(or, "copy, make, and install" one tarball) and depends on the success of
the previous steps. I thought using  "multiquery, multicopy"  will not be
reliable. However, my guess can be wrong. Please advise.  Does coDeploy have
more reliable tools which can guarantee the success?

Thanks,
Sankar

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Matthias Goerner <enischte at gmail.com>wrote:

> Did you consider coDeploy, multiquery and multicopy?
>
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Sankardas Roy <sroy at scs.howard.edu>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> For my experiment in PlanetLab, I need to install some software (e.g.
>> Java, ApacheActiveMq, ApacheActiveMqCpp) on a couple of nodes (say 20
>> nodes). I was able to install these pieces of software on two PlanetLab
>> nodes manually while I had to spend couple of hours on each of these nodes
>> for this installation. To save my time I would like to automate this
>> installation process so that I can easily complete the installation on 20
>> nodes.
>>
>> It will be very helpful if someone kindly tells me the best option to
>> achieve the above goal i.e. how to automate installation on a PlanetLab
>> node.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sankar
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