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Table of Contents
1. Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 1
1.1. The Dynamic Deployment System ...................................................................................... 1
1.2. Features ......................................................................................................................... 1
2. Requirements ............................................................................................................................ 2
2.1. Server/UI ....................................................................................................................... 2
2.2. Workers ......................................................................................................................... 2
3. Download ................................................................................................................................. 3
3.1. Download location ........................................................................................................... 3
3.2. DDS Version Number Scheme .......................................................................................... 3
4. Installation ................................................................................................................................ 4
4.1. Step #1: Get the source .................................................................................................... 4
4.1.1. from DDS git repository ........................................................................................ 4
4.1.2. from DDS source tarball ........................................................................................ 4
4.2. Step #2: Configure the source ............................................................................................ 4
4.3. Step #3: Build and install ................................................................................................. 5
4.4. Step #4: DDS Environment ............................................................................................... 5
4.5. Step #5: DDS shared Installation ........................................................................................ 6
5. Configuration ............................................................................................................................ 7
6. Topology .................................................................................................................................. 8
6.1. Topology file .................................................................................................................. 8
6.2. Topology file example ..................................................................................................... 8
6.3. Topology XML tag reference ........................................................................................... 10
7. How to Start ........................................................................................................................... 16
7.1. Environment ................................................................................................................. 16
7.2. Server .......................................................................................................................... 16
7.3. Deploy Agents .............................................................................................................. 16
7.3.1. Deploy-Agents using: SSH plug-in ......................................................................... 16
7.4. Check availability of Agents ............................................................................................ 16
7.5. Set Topology ................................................................................................................ 16
7.6. Activate Agents ............................................................................................................. 17
8. How to Test ............................................................................................................................ 18
8.1. First Section ................................................................................................................. 18
9. Tutorials ................................................................................................................................. 19
9.1. Tutorial 1 ..................................................................................................................... 19
9.1.1. Usage ................................................................................................................ 19
9.1.2. Result ................................................................................................................ 19
10. Command-line interface ........................................................................................................... 20
dds-server ........................................................................................................................... 21
dds-commander ................................................................................................................... 22
dds-user-defaults .................................................................................................................. 23
dds-submit .......................................................................................................................... 24
dds-info .............................................................................................................................. 25
dds-test ............................................................................................................................... 26
dds-topology ....................................................................................................................... 27
dds-agent-cmd ..................................................................................................................... 28
11. SSH plug-in ........................................................................................................................... 29
11.1. Resource definition ....................................................................................................... 29
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