OMF User Guide¶
Welcome to the OMF Users Guide!
This guide will show you how to describe, instrument, run, and access the results of your experiments with OMF. It is intended for researchers, experimenters and students, who wants to conduct experiments on networking testbeds with OMF installed.
If you are a new OMF user, you may want to:
- read through the short OMF System Overview and/or the Experiment Life-cycle Overview
- or/then directly jump to Getting Started page and the Basic Tutorial pages.
What's in this guide?¶
- System Overview & Experiment Life Cycle - Overview of an OMF-enabled testbed & the steps involved in a complete experiment cycle
- Getting Started - General information on how to access existing OMF testbeds
- The Basics - Set of basic tutorials for new users of OMF 5.3
- More Tutorials - More tutorials showing the use of various OMF 5.3 features
- Instrumenting Your Applications - How to use OMF Measurement Libraries (OML) with OMF
- OEDL Reference - Detailed reference for the OMF 5.3 Experiment Description Language (OEDL)
- Man Pages - Manual pages for the omf commands available on the console of any OMF 5.3 enabled testbed
- More Materials - Some materials from live tutorial sessions that we gave
Miscellaneous¶
- Old Tutorials for OMF 5.2 & References - Archived tutorials & references for the previous OMF 5.2
- Unstable Development Features - Information on some of OMF features currently under development, use at your own risk!