Manual Pages for the OMF tools¶
If you are logged in on a console of any OMF-enabled testbed, you can invoke the OMF Experiment Controller via the omf command and its set of sub-commands and options.
With this command, you can:- run an experiment
- save a disk image of a given node
- load a saved disk image on nodes
- switch a given set of nodes On/Off
- view the status of a set of nodes
The usage format for the omf command is:
omf [SUBCOMMAND] [ARGUMENT]...The following sub-commands are available:
- help - Display the help message
- exec - Execute an experiment script
- load - Load a disk image on a given set of nodes
- save - Save a disk image from a given node into a file
- tell - Switch a given set of nodes ON/OFF
- stat - Returns the status of a given set of nodes
You can view the OMF tool manual pages using the following command on the console of any OMF-enabled testbed:
omf help omf help exec omf help load etc...
You can also view the same manual pages via one of the following links: