Introduction
Environment
This OpenNSA development is done on an Ubuntu desktop machine. While it is possible to run most components from a MacOS or a Windows machine, this is not supported, and not described in this document. At the time this document was written, the version is the Ubuntu desktop is 17.10 (artful).
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This Ubuntu environment should be able to forward IP packets. You can enable this in your Ubuntu Desktop as follows:
sudo vi /etc/sysctl.conf
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
sudo sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf
You will be using two GIT repositories, the JRA2 OpenNSA repository and the JRA2 OpenNSA Test repository. Our scripts and Docker containers need to be able to find these repositories, so two environment variables need to always exist in any runtime environment. Put them in /etc/environment thusly:
sudo vi /etc/environment
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OPENNSA=/data/dev/opennsa
TESTOPENNSA=/data/dev/testopennsa
Next, we need to provide PostgreSQL some credentials (passwords). You do not want to have to enter the password every time you start the database! So create a file ~/.pgpass, and give it the following content:
# ~/.pgpass
# hostname:port:database:username:password
10.50.0.100:5432:*:opennsa:secretpassword
localhost:5432:*:opennsa:secretpassword
This means we will be using user 'opennsa', who has a very secret password.
Running the OpenNSA cli (Command-Line-Interface) onsa can be touch since it requires so many input parameters. Fortunately you can set reasonable defaults in the file ~/.opennsa-cli:
# ~/.opennsa-cli
bandwidth=5000
host=10.50.0.1
port=7080
starttime=+6000
endtime=+16000
timeout=6000
httptimeout=6000
nsa=main,gts.nsi.geant.net:nsa,http://10.50.0.7:9443/NSI/services/CS2
nsa=domain1,nsi1.domain1:nsa,http://10.50.0.2:9445/NSI/services/CS2
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- .pgpass
- .opennsa-cli
- .opennsa-credentials
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