Re: Accelar, ANTS and others

["Phil Wang" <pywang@nortelnetworks.com>]

Hi Norman,

It looks that you made some great success. Congratulations!

"Brickman,Norman F." wrote:
> 
> Phil,
>         I have the Accelar JVM installation working, as I mentioned, and I got
> the ORE loaded via http today - seemed to work fine as I watched it on
> the Accelar console.  A couple of simple questions right now, if I
> could.
Great!
> 
>         BTW, I have no need for it now but I tried accessing the ore-xml_tar.gz
> file and could not get it unzipped.  The ants one works fine, but the
> ore asks for full file name of the compressed file, and I don't know
> it.  I am doing all this on PC's so far, so I need to rename the
> ore-ants_tar.tar as ore-ants_tar.gz after it downloads.  ORE worked
> fine, but the XML file gave the problems.  I can just try it from a
> Solaris system next week.
The full name of the ORE ANTS package is "ore-ants.tar.gz". However
Windows only supports one suffix ".*", that is why you got
"ore-ants_tar.*". If you use UNIX-bases systems, you would have had the
full name.

The ORE XML package is similar, with a full name "ore-xml.tar.gz". I did
download it on Windows and UNIX, but will check if the packet is broken.

> 
>         Next week I will install the JVM on a couple of the PC's in my network,
> and try to get the hello and helloclient examples to work as a starter.
> I'll let you know if I have problems.
Good. Looking to your news.

> 
>         But I also have a couple of Solaris boxes (2.6 and 2.7) hooked up to
> the network, and I started to read up on the ants possibilities and
> their aping application.  Is the aping in the ore-ants package?  From my
> brief reading now it sounds like I add the ants to the accelar startup
> service load, and then prepare the two Solaris platforms for JVM and
> ANTS also.  Do I use the exact same ANTS package for the two Solaris
> platforms that I have for use on the Accelar load?
The ORE ANTS is a wraper of MIT ANTS, and includes all the stuff.
However, the Accelar does not need to load all ANTS applications such as
Aping. Rather, these applications will be downloaded or sent by the
capsules.

On a host system like Solaris, you have two choices running ANTS or ORE
ANTS. Running ANTS does not need the ORE, but running the ORE ANTS does.
In our experiment, two Solaris hosts shared a directory of ANTS.
MOreover, you can use Linux or others instead of Solaris.

> 
>         Please excuse me if these questions are too elementary, but I'll read
> in more detail on Monday.
>                 Norman
> --
> Norman F. Brickman     nfb@mitre.org     The MITRE Corporation
> Office:  703.883.5990
You may also get some hints from the ORE ANTS howto. You are welcome.

Regards,
Phil