PLATINE 
"Plate-forme de télé-ingénierie
coopérative synchrone distribuée"
Modification last date: July
4, 2005
Documentation
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Administrator Guide Lines
1. How to configure a new session ?
Start from the Platine
Web Page at Laas The following interface
is displayed.
Click on « Start
Lab@Future Client »
Select Administrator and then click on Enter
Provide the adequate
password (contact vero@laas.fr for getting
the password) Select an experiment (for
instance ARTEC)
Select Create a new session, and then
click on Continue 1.1 Session Description
Provide a Session Name, a
Session Goal, an ESS Server URL (if any), a
Session Password. Note1 : Session Name and Session Password are mandatory. Note 2 : The ESS Server
URL in an entry point for experiment specific applications or
documents. If “ESS ServerURL”/labfuture/xml.file exists, a
specific interface will be started later allowing the administrator to choose
a specific application on the ESS server (in this case, all the session URLs
will be defined automatically from the ESS server). If an ESS Server
URL is specified without the presence of the “ESS Server
URL”/labfuture/xml.file, the administrator will have to specify
manually the different session URLs. If there is no ESS Server URL
specified, no session URL will be specified. Click on Next
Select the roles which will
be available in the session (at least one) Indicate which role if
any may have a chairman capability associated with. In the current version of
PLATINE, specifying the number of persons
per role and the maximum number of active users is not required.. Click on Next
Select the tools which
will be available in the session (at least one) Note: The VisioConf tool (written in
Java) and the Vic/Rat tools (written in C) are mutually exclusive. Vic/Rat
tools, as they are written in C, cannot be installed using the Java Webstart
procedure. They have therefore to be correctly installed before starting
PLATINE. See details in the PLATINE distribution web page. Click on Next
In the current version of
PLATINE, there is no way to modify the default access rules for the different
tools. At this stage, you can check the list of roles and the list of tools
available for the session. Click on Next
Provide the IP address
(or name) of the configuration server (always), the chat server (if the Chat tool
has been selected), the whiteboard server (if the Whiteboard tool has been
selected), the application sharing server (if the Application Sharing tool
has been selected). Default port numbers are
provided for each tool, and the administrator can modify them if necessary.
It is the administrator’s responsibility to check that there is no
conflict among the used port numbers(for instance, selection of a port which
corresponds to another application running on the station of some user who
will register to the session). Look at TCP/IP Ports
to have more information on the available ports. Port numbers should be
greater or equal than 1024. Note that the same port numbers will be used by
all the users registered in a session, and that these ports should be open on
the user firewalls (if any). Note1: In the current version of
PLATINE, the configuration server, the chat server (if any) and the
whiteboard server (if any) should run on the same station used by the administrator. Furthermore, the
application sharing server (if any) should run on a different station. Keep in mind that the administrator will
start the synchronous phase of this session from the specified configuration
server. In this example, the administrator can start and s ⌂
Top the synchronous phase of the session “example” from
host machine Corona.artec.uni-bremen.de Note 2: If the given IP addresses are
public, all users with an public IP address will be able to join this session
If the given IP addresses are private, only users connected on the same
sub-network of servers will be able to join this session Click on Next
Assume that an ESS Server
URL has been specified and the associated xml.file does exist on this server.
In this case, a module displays the information about the different
applications available on the ESS server (this is currently the case of the
ARTEC experiments). Selecting some experiment specific application leads to
the automatic definition of the associated URLs, with the exception of the
Asynchronous Phase URL which has always to be specified explicitely.
If the ESS Server URL
doesn’t provide the adequate xml file, the administrator may possibly
specify manually the different URLs appearing on the window. This
window aims at integrating the PLATINE platform with an Experiment Specific
Server (ESS) through the specification of different URLs which will be automatically launched . The specification of all these
URLs is optional. If no ESS Server URL has been
specified, no window is presented and consequently no URL can be specified in
the current version of PLATINE. The Admin Synch Phase
Start URL (if specified) will be launched on the session administrator
station when the administrator will start a synchronous phase for this
session. The Admin Synch Phase
Stop URL (if specified) will be launched on the session administrator
station when the administrator will stop a synchronous phase for this
session. The Asynchronous Phase
URL (if specified) will be launched on any user station when the
associated user will register to this session. The Synchronous Phase
Join URL (if specified) will be launched on any user station when the
associated user will join this session synchronous phase. The Synchronous Phase
Leave URL (if specified) will be launched on any user station when the
associated user will leave this session synchronous phase. Click on Next
1.7. Session Configuration Saving
Click on Save
and then on Finish. 2. How to modify the configuration of an
existing session ?
Start from the Platine
Web Page at Laas The following interface
is displayed.
Click on « Start
Lab@Future Client »
Select Administrator and then click on Enter Provide the adequate
password (contact vero@laas.fr for getting
the password)
Select an experiment (for
instance ARTEC) Select Access an existing session (for instance example in
the list below)
Select either Modify
for modifying the configuration of an existing session or Delete for
deleting a session.
The
administrator can change all the parameters of the session, with the
exception of its name. A session can only be deleted
if nobody is registered in it. 3. How to start/stop a session synchronous
phase
Start from the Platine Web Page at Laas The following interface
is displayed.
Click on « Start
Lab@Future Client »
Select Administrator and then click on Enter Provide the adequate
password (contact vero@laas.fr for getting
the password) Select an experiment (for
instance ARTEC)
Select Access an existing session (for instance example in
the list below)
Select either Modify
for modifying the configuration of an existing session or Delete for
deleting a session. Select StartSync
(or StopSync if the session is currently active)
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