Sandbox is a ubuntu machine Steps on setting up this ubuntu Server are as follows[[BR]] 1. Attach a usb cd drive and start the cd install.[[BR]] 2. Create the root partition and a swap partition of 4 gigs (James can you please put the exact sizes you use).[[BR]] 3. Setup the Network Interfaces[[BR]] eth0 - Goes into the DMZ network, so please modify the /etc/network/interfaces file to for eth0 [[BR]] the ability to attain an ip address using dhcp.[[BR]] Please update the dhcpd.conf file with eth0 mac address for console.sbX[[BR]] eth1 - Is the ConsoleC address for sandbox.[[BR]] Please update /etc/network/interfaces to [[BR]] iface eth1 inet static [[BR]] address 10.1x.0.10 - (x) is the sandbox number [[BR]] netmask 255.255.0.0 [[BR]] 4. Please Install libpam-ldap,libnss-ldap,autofs and autofs-ldap packages using apt.[[BR]] 5. Please modify /etc/ldap/ldap.conf to the following [[BR]] BASE dc=orbit-lab,dc=org [[BR]] URI ldap://ldap.orbit-lab.org [[BR]] 6. You can copy /etc/ldap.conf from another sandbox or set the following attributes yourself[[BR]] host ldap.orbit-lab.org [[BR]] base dc=orbit-lab,dc=org [[BR]] ldap_version 3 [[BR]] rootbinddn cn=admin,dc=orbit-lab,dc=org [[BR]] timelimit 30 [[BR]] bind_timelimit 30 [[BR]] idle_timelimit 360 [[BR]] pam_check_host_attr yes [[BR]] pam_password crypt [[BR]] Copy the /etc/ldap.secret file from another sandbox or ask the administrator for the password. [[BR]] 7. For autofs we need to modify /etc/default/autofs file so that the autofs daemon knows what the master map is. [[BR]] {{{ LDAPURI="ldap://ldap.orbit-lab.org/" [[BR]] LDAPBASE="ou=auto.master,dc=orbit-lab,dc=org" }}} Please ensure that you start autofs 8. OMF Install -To manage your nodes To install omf packages modify your apt source tree to include mytestbed url and then run update on the apt for it to pull down the package information. The above steps can be done by these steps[[BR]] {{{ echo "deb http://pkg.mytestbed.net/ubuntu hardy/" >> /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update }}} For the console we need to add the following packages omf-resctl liboml omf-expectl omf-common omf-aggrmgr . Please try and install the latest release[[BR]] {{{ apt-get install liboml omf-expctl-5.2 omf-common-5.2 omf-aggmgr-5.2 }}} 9. OMF Configuration