History

Changes in Release 5.3¶

The latest OMF v5.3 has been released! This new version includes the following changes:

Added netem traffic shaping support
Added new OEDL command "loadData" to upload arbitrary binary content to resources (e.g. video file for demos, etc...)
New Event-driven mechanism, we can now define user-custom 'events' (using defEvent), and associated tasks (using 'onEvent') to perform when the events occur
New RPM packages for Fedora 8
New package installation on resources via YUM
Support for EJabberd as the default PubSub server
Support for disconnected exeriments
New basic authentication scheme
Support of PlanetLab for the Experiment Control plane
New web interface for the Experiment Controller

Changed PubSub communication tree structure to fit the federation design described here
Converted all the communications between EC and RCs into XML instead of plain test. In previous release 5.2, only the EXECUTE command was in XML.
Replace the X,Y coordinate naming scheme by a flat naming scheme using unique Human Readable Names (HRN) for the resources, similar to what is used in PlanetLab
Re-factoring of the communication scheme for EC and RC
Improved scheme for substitution of parameter values with resource-specific values at runtime
Better handling of exceptions when processing experiment description
New PubSub communication scheme for the Aggregate Manager
Better installation and configuration tools and guides

Fixed PM Install bug in reporting status to Tracestate
Fixed APT Install, which was broken in 5.2
Fixed bug related to ENV variables not being passed to the RC from the EC for other variables than OML-related ones

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