Once you have your GENI credentials, you will need to generate your ssl and ssh keys and then you can go on to the main tutorial and start exercising your fingers while straining your eyes and  neck….

This is how you will logon to the site and start your first experiment. After speaking with experts in the field, I came to the conclusion to use flack rather than OMNI for my experiment needs. Therefore, I am going to show how to use flack (If you did not take my advise from the previous post, you don’t know what flack is :D)

LOGIN STEPS

1) Go to https://portal.geni.net/ and click on USE GENI button

2) If you are affiliated with one of the partners, select that school otherwise type GENI Project Office in the textbox and allow auto complete

3) If this is the first time you logged in, you will need to wither create a project or join a project. If you have the project lead privilege, you can create a project yourself. Otherwise, you can either request a lead privilege or ask someone else to create a project for you.

4) Once you have created or joined a project, you can see the project when you scroll down. You should click on “Create  Slice”, provide a slice name and description. Remember that slice names should contain only letters and numbers.

5) If this is your first time on GENI, before you can do anything meaningful, the ssh keys should be uploaded. This process needs to be done only once.

6) GENERATING SSH KEYS: You can follow the instructions on the next few screens to generate and download a private key. You must save the private key somewhere so that you have access to it when you connect to the GENI resources from different computers.

7) Now you can go back to the slice from the GENI portal home page and click on “Launch Flack”

8) Next time you login on GENI portal, you can go straight to your slice (or create a new one) and launch flack

Great!! You are now seeing flack on your screen (except if you don’t have adobe flash player installed.. if this is you then go ahead and install flash first)