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User Manual - Part 1: WBUI

OSCARS version 0.3 Apr 2008

Web Browser Interface (WBUI)

1. Login

Before you can access the server you must login using the user name that you were given by the domain administrator and your password. OCSARS will then issue a cookie to your browser that will keep you authenticated for 8 hours. Once you are logged in, you will see a row of tabs from which you can select the desired action.

The parts of the WBUI that you will see depends on what authorizations you have. A normal OSCARS-user will only be able to create a reservation, list and see the details of his own reservations and modify his own profile. More privileged users, e.g. OSCARS-engineers and OSCARS-operators can see all the reservations. Users with admin privileges, OSCARS-administrator can add and authorize new users and modify and delete users. See Authorization Policy for more information about the different levels of privileges.

2. Create Reservation

Allows the creation of new reservation. Reservations can be made at network layer 3 only between hosts that are within ESnet. Layer 2 specifications must be used for all interdomain reservations.
Note that ISPs use both abstract topology node names and actual topology node names. Only abstract topology names will be seen outside the ISP, so a user will always be dealing with the abstract names. The actual hosts that will be used may vary and there may be multiple hosts between two abstract hops.

Hops are specified using the topology identifier defined by the Open Grid Forum (OGF) Network Measurement Working Group (NMWG) control plane topology schema. A topology identifier is a URN that may consist of as many as four hierarchical components: domain:node:port:link. See Topology components notes for more about the topology naming scheme.

Common parameters

Layer 3 parameters (only supported by ESnet)

Layer 2 parameters

3. List Reservations

Depending on your privileges, list reservations will display only your reservations or all the reservations in the system. We keep a record of all the reservations that have ever been made, so the interface allows you to specify the statuses, the time periods, the links involved and the description of the reservations to display. In addition once a list of reservations has been displayed, you can click a column header to have the reservations sorted by that column. The column values are:
If you click on a GRI, you will see the details of the reservation.

4. Reservation Details


The fields that are displayed in the list reservation page are repeated. The additional fields are:

5. Cancel Reservation

The Reservation Details page provides a button to allow you to cancel the reservation.

6. User Profile

Displays the information we keep about the user. Use this page to modify information about yourself.
User with administration privileges will also see the following two tabs:

7. User List

Gives a list of all the users with columns for loginId, First and Last names, Organization and phone number: clicking on a user will bring up the complete profile for that user, if you have the privileges to do so.

8. Add User

This page presents an empty version of the user profile which can be filled in to add a new user to the system. See User Profile for a description of the fields.