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

[dilip kumar]

Hi Sankaradas,

I would suggest you use vxargs script to run commands in parallel in many
nodes as mentioned in
http://ilab.cs.byu.edu/cs660/code/planetlab/planetlab_tutorial.pdf. Hope
this is helpful.

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Sankardas Roy <sroy at scs.howard.edu> wrote:

> 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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Regards,
Dilip Kumar
Graduate Student,
University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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