Usage

The core of VILLASnode is the villas-node server. The folling usage information is provided when called like villas-node --help;

Usage: villas-node [CONFIG]
  CONFIG is the path to an optional configuration file
         if omitted, VILLASnode will start without a configuration
         and wait for provisioning over the web interface.

Supported node types:
 - file        : support for file log / replay node type
 - cbuilder    : RTDS CBuilder model
 - socket      : BSD network sockets
 - fpga        : VILLASfpga PCIe card (libxil)
 - ngsi        : OMA Next Generation Services Interface 10 (libcurl, libjansson)
 - websocket   : Send and receive samples of a WebSocket connection (libwebsockets)

Supported hooks:
 - restart     : Call restart hooks for current path
 - print       : Print the message to stdout
 - decimate    : Downsamping by integer factor
 - fix_ts      : Update timestamps of sample if not set
 - skip_first  : Skip the first samples
 - drop        : Drop messages with reordered sequence numbers
 - convert     : Convert message from / to floating-point / integer
 - shift       : Shift the origin timestamp of samples
 - ts          : Update timestamp of message with current time
 - stats       : Collect statistics for the current path
 - stats_send  : Send path statistics to another node

Supported API commands:
 - nodes       : retrieve list of all known nodes
 - config      : retrieve current VILLASnode configuration
 - reload      : restart VILLASnode with new configuration

VILLASnode v0.7-0.2-646-g59756e7-dirty-debug (built on Mar 12 2017 21:37:40)
 copyright 2014-2016, Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems, EONERC
 Steffen Vogel <StVogel@eonerc.rwth-aachen.de>

The server requires root privileges for:

Enable the realtime FIFO scheduler
Increase the task priority
Configure the network emulator (netem)
Change the SMP affinity of threads and network interrupts

Step-by-step

Start putty.exe (SSH client for Windows)

Should be already installed on most systems
Or load .exe from this website (no installation required) http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe

Connect to VILLASnode

Setting	Value
IP	130.134.169.31
Port	22
Protocol	SSH
User	root
Password	*please ask msv

Go to VILLASnode directory

$ cd /villas/
Edit configuration file

$ nano etc/loopback.conf

Take a look at the examples and documentation for a detailed description
Move with: cursor keys
Save with: Ctrl+X => y => Enter

Start server

$ villas node etc/loopback.conf
Terminate server by pressing Ctrl+C
Logout

$ exit

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