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GENERAL USAGE NOTES
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The software is meant to aid researchers and engineers to implement exercises. For this purpose the software package EXITO is able to:
- Load complex scenarii
- execute scenario events, with various effects such as sending emails or calling third party applications API.
- support various user roles, including exercise administrators, able to control the exercise, stakeholder moderator, monitor and observer accounts to provide feedback on a running exercise, or simply observe the scenario unfold.
- generate an exercise map in real-time in KML for easy integration in third party applications (openLayers, google earth, etc).
- simulate and control real world websites to increase the realism of an exercise. Clone of twitter based on StatusNet, and of a news site based on openPublish are included in this release.
SYSTEM PREREQUISITES
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EXITO requires a CMS to run into. Drupal has been successfully tested, and is the CMS packaged in to the Virtual Appliance.
Drupal and EXITO require PHP, Apache and Mysql to run.
The software has been developed in PHP and has been tested on Unix-based systems. It may work on other OSes which support PHP and MySQL.
The minimum system requirements can vary depending on the complexity of the exercise setup (e.g. number and location of users, size and complexity of the scenario)
As an example, the minimum hardware requirements to run the Virtual Applicance are as follows:
- Oracle Virtual Box 4.x
- vCPU: 1 vCore, 2GHz
- vRAM: 2GB
- Hard drive: 10GB of free space
CONTENTS OF THE EXITO SOFTWARE PACKAGE
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In the Virtual Appliance, EXITO is structured in the following subfolders of /usr/local/www:
- 'drupal6/drupaltable': exercise portal base directory
- 'drupal6/drupaltable/plugins': the inject plugins
- 'openPublish': the fake news site base directory
- 'statusnet': the fake twitter base directory
HOW TO INSTALL
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Import the EXITO OVA into virtual box (File/Import appliance)
Before starting the machine for the first time, please review the VM settings to ensure they suit your environment.
(number of cores, memory, network configuration, etc).
after boot, the main EXITO portal, the openPublish and statusNet instance will be located respectively at http://server-ip, http://server-ip/openPublish and http://server-ip/statusnet
Refer to the credentials section below for username and passwords
CREDENTIALS
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the login/passwords of the key components of the EXITO Virtual appliance is as follows:
Virtual appliance administration: username 'root', no password.
EXITO portal : admin/admin
openPublish: admin/admin
statusnet: admin/adminadmin
