If you want to just get the latest RLI, click this link.

In RLI version 6.5, there was a change made to the way the subnets were allocated. This change is detailed in the ONL Wiki Pages. Naming and IP addressing are different. However, you can still use files that used the old scheme. The change expands the number of components allowed in a subnet and allows more complicated topologies. This will eventually become the default.



The rest of this page describes what is in the RLI and what MAC OS users need to do.

See the ONL Wiki Pages for more information on using the RLI and ONL.

Also, reservations are handled differently since March 2009. The reservation changes are:

• Reservations can only be made through the RLI.

That means that you need to define the maximum configuration before you make your reservation through the menu item File => Make a Reservation.

• Reservations may be deleted (canceled) through either the ONL Web page or the RLI. This can be done through the My Reservations link in the sidebar after you log in.
• The Resource Availabilty link in the side bar indicates the percentage of components available for the number of days indicated (see upper left-hand corner). So, if you want to find out if you can make a reservation for one NPR tomorrow, make sure that the Days Ahead field is 2 or more days, the Type field is NPR Clusters, and press Go. Then, see if there is atleast 16% (1/6) of NPRs available.

What Users Need To Do

If you are using a MAC, read the bottom of this page first.

• Save copies of your old experiment files in some new directory

  It is always a good idea to do this ... although we doubt that you will need to refer to these files.

• The RLI requires Java 1.6 or newer
  • You can check your version of java by entering the command 'java -version'.
  • If you need to install the JRE, go to the Java download page http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp and download the latest JRE for your platform by following the instructions posted at the Sun site. Note: You only need to download the JRE (less than 20 MB), not the entire JDK (Java Development Kit).
• Latest RLI.jar file
  • Get the latest RLI.jar file by clicking here.

There is one annoyance:

• Even after you install Java 1.6 for the MAC OS, the new JRE (runtime system) will NOT be the default.

If you type in java -version, it will say respond with the old version number. And if you look for more updates, it will say that you are already up-to-date.

64-bit MAC

So, this is what you need to do if you have a 64-bit MAC:

• Verify that the problem really is the one described above

  Enter the command java -version. If the version number is some form of 1.6, the problem might not be what is described above.

• Install Apple's update for Java 1.6

See http://support.apple.com/downloads/Java_for_Mac_OS_X_10_5_Update_2.

• Replace the java file (usually /usr/bin/java) with a symbolic link to the correct location

  Here is what most MAC OS users did at the command line (assuming java is located at /usr/bin/java):

  which java		# find the location of the java command
  cd /usr/bin		# assumes that java is at /usr/bin/java
  sudo mv java java.old	# rename the current java
  sudo ln -s /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6/Commands/java  
  			# create a symbolic link to the new java
  

  Now, if you repeat the first step above, you should see that the java is version now 1.6. (Note that you have to use the sudo command twice because those operations require more than ordinary priviledges.) If you find a better way to do this, send us email at testbed-ops AT arl.wustl.edu.

If you want to know more about this, try the link http://blogs.sun.com/cmar/entry/java_1_6_finally_available.

32-bit MAC

Java 1.6 is not available for 32-bit MACs from Sun. So, you need to use Soylatte which based on the BSD port of Sun's Java 6 JDK.

• Verify that the problem really is the one described above

  Enter the command java -version. If the version number is some form of 1.6, the problem might not be what is described above.

• Download what you need from Soylatte by following the download link

See http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/static/soylatte/.

• After installing, if you get the error message "Exception in thread main java.lang.InternalError: Can't connect to X11 window server using ':0.0' as the value of the DISPLAY variable.", you need to set the DISPLAY environment variable like this:

  	export DISPLAY=:0.0: