Frisbee Aggregate Manager

Usage

Frisbee is the tool we use to manipulate disk images. The 3 main components are:

• imagezip - Imagezip generates the disk images. It requires that you boot into a PREOS, either via a cdrom/usb flash drive or PXE. Orbit primarily uses PXE.

• frisbee - Frisbee is the tool that writes the image onto a disk, the image is received via a network multicast. It must only be run in the PREOS.

• frisbeed - Frisbeed is the daemon that sends the disk image to nodes in the network. It's run from the server that houses your images.

You will not need to use these tools manually. This service coordinates with the PXE service and the node agent to start/stop Frisbee clients and daemons when needed. It only manges the pool of multicast address used for pushing images.

More information can be found at ​Emulab and ​CS Utah

Notes

• Currently the Frisbee tools only work with EXT3/EXT2 file systems. Using newer file systems will result in images of size 0.

Installation and Configuration

The Frisbee AM (tools and services) is packaged in the omf-aggmgr-frisbee-5.4 package. It can be installed form the package repository with

apt-get install omf-aggmgr-frisbee-5.4

Instructions on how to add the Orbit software repository to your list of apt-sources can be found here

Once installed the service is configured by TODO.