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User Manual - Part 1: WBUI

OSCARS version 0.4 September 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, reservations starting or ending at your site, 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 and you have the required authorization, 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.

9. Attributes

This page can only be seen by holders of the OSCARS-administrator role. It lists all the current attributes and allows the addition, deletion and modification of attributes. Each attribute has a name, a type and a short description. Attributes of type role are intended to provide all the authorizations that a class of users will need. Attribues of type privilge are used to add a specific privilege to a user, that his normal role does  not provide.

An attribute can only be deleted if there are no users currently holding that attribute. To see all the users who have an attribute, go to the User List page and select the attribute from the Attributes menu.

10. Institutions

This page can only be seen by holders of the OSCARS-administrator role. It lists all the current institutions and allows the addition, deletion and modification of institutions. An institution can only be deleted if there are currently no registered using belonging to that institution.

11. Authorizations

This page can only be seen by holders of the OSCARS-administrator role. It lists all the current authorizations and allows the selection of an authorization to be deleted or modified.
The list of authorizations can be limited to those belonging to a specified attribute. Any column can be sorted alphabetically by clicking on the column title.

12. Authorization Details

This page can only be seen by holders of the OSCARS-administrator role.  It allows the addition, deletion and modification of authorizations. If an existing authorization is modified, it previous value is deleted and replaced by the modified value. It is also possible to clone and then modify an authorization, in which case both the old and new values exist.