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

[Sankardas Roy]

Hi John,
Thanks for your message. Yes, I would like to explore if Raven can help me
automate  my installation process. Please note that during some sub-steps of
the manual installation I needed to compile the source of some packages
(e.g. apr, apr-util, libtool, activemqcpp) on the target PlanetLab node. Do
you think Raven fits to my requirement? I visited the introduction page at
http://raven.cs.arizona.edu/projects/project/wiki/RavenIntro . However,
could not become sure.

Thanks,
Sankar

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:41 PM, John H. Hartman <jhh at cs.arizona.edu> wrote:

> You  might look at our Raven toolset -- raven.cs.arizona.edu.
>
> John
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Sankardas Roy <sroy at scs.howard.edu>
> wrote:
> > 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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