Changes between Version 41 and Version 42 of NeoContainers

Timestamp:

Nov 23, 2015 1:52:43 PM (8 years ago)

Author:

Geoff Lawler

Comment:

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NeoContainers

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-Each node must have the following fields defined in the <b>nodes.json</b>
-file.
+The file is a list of node configurations, where each 
+node configuration must have the following fields defined:
 
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 </pre>
 
-<p>
-
-<!----------------------------------------------->
-
-<h3>Tell the Configuration Server about your new Nodes</h3>
-
-<p>
-
-The Configuration Server needs to know that information in your brand-new <pre>nodes.json</pre>file. There's a little script just for this: <pre>/share/config_server/bin/initialize_containers.py</pre>. This script feeds the information from your <pre>nodes.json</pre> file to the Configuration Server. This must be done <b>before you swap in your experiment</b> for reasons given below. (Note that because the script needs to run before the experiment is swapped in, the script is run on the <pre>users</pre> machine. 
+Note that this is a <em>list</em> of configurations. In JSON, a list is a comma-separated list of times between square brackets like so: [ item, item ..., item ]. Each configuration block is given as a dictionary with the key/value pairs as above. A JSON dictionary is delimited by { }. So a list of dictionaries is [ { ... }, { ... }, ... ].
+
+<p>
+
+<!----------------------------------------------->
+
+<h3>3. Tell the Configuration Server about your new Nodes</h3>
+
+<p>
+
+The Configuration Server needs to know that information in your brand-new <em>nodes.json</em>file. There's a little script just for this: <em>/share/config_server/bin/initialize_containers.py</em>. This script feeds the information from your <em>nodes.json</em> file to the Configuration Server. This must be done <b>before you swap in your experiment</b> for reasons given below. (Note that because the script needs to run before the experiment is swapped in, the script is run on the <em>users</em> machine. 
 
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