Orbit > Building

Building an ORBIT sandbox setup

This page documents the steps necessary to build an ORBIT sandbox setup.

The test bed consists of two server side machine: one that supports all the ORBIT services and the other machine is the console to run the experiments. The following figure gives an overview of the test bed setup

We need to add some more text here, but right now we are just collecting various bits and pieces and I hope somebody will do some Wiki gardening when it gets unwieldy.

Support Services

• PXE — Bootstrap Orbit nodes

Developer Notes

• Comments on the PXE Makefile
• CM <-> CMC communication protocol