Conductor

Testbed Orchestration Tool

usage

1. First, you should run generate_configure.py under /bin, then you can get a configuration file called gen_configure.cfg under /config.
2. Second, you can specify what services you want to deploy, by adding it into service option of each specific VM, in gen_configure.cfg. Actually the generated configration file has some initial values.
3. Third, You can look up /services to check how many and what services you can specify.
4. Fourth, run conductor.py under /bin where you can enable what output files you want to get by setting their switch to 1, like below:

Switch	Value	Description	Usage
NSFILE	0/1	Generate NSfile for NCL	NCL Node & Network initialization
HOSTS	0/1	Generate hosts inventory for Ansible	Ansible hosts inventory
VAGRANTFILE	0/1	Generate Vagrantfile for Vagrant	Construction file of Virtual machines
ANSIBLEFILE	0/1	Generate provision file for Ansible	Provision file of Virtual machines
CLIENTFILE	0/1	Generate client configuration file	RDP remote access file of Virtual machines

Finally, You'll get output files under /outputs

doing

1. Interact with VIndex to get user options from its interface, and then make my services templates more soft-coded
2. Design the network/topology functions
3. Design activity module
4. Configuration files generation debug and soft coding