Simulation network exploitation SEDRA and SEDReDE portals: user
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1. Operational Summary that describes the essential collaboration between its subnodes i e what resources nodes are required to run the group Which actors person software hardware does what role from where In what sequence and Hyperlinks from parent groups to children groups may be worthwhile The hierarchy that the User sees is only a subset of what has been created The top level of the hierarchy is always visible while lower levels only display when expanded by User Note that lower level data is often fetched upon expansion of the parent node therefore load times may vary between one expansion and the other While a node s children are being fetched the node has only one child whose icon is a question mark When the children node resource information is received this child node is replaced by the new information DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 15 6 2 View Document To view a Simulation Document the User can browse to the desired document node within any group node and right click on the node to see operations available on the resource If a View is available then the user may select it Figure 10 At this time SEDRA attempts to download the document Downloading the document may not be instantaneous Large downloads will temporarily disable user input When the document is downloaded the Portal attempts to start the document which will open the default viewer for the document type This operation2. Resource Tree Figure 6 Selecting a database After selecting a database click the Connect button so that the SEDRA Portal changes from the disconnected to the connecting state The GUI changes and shows a dialog from which the connection can be aborted if it takes too long If a password is required a dialog box displayed at this time DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 11 Figure 7 Database password dialog box If connection succeeds SEDRA enters the connected state in which the DB user cannot be changed the Connect button changes to a Disconnect the Refresh button is enabled and a tree view of the database is displayed in the Resource Tree panel 12 DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 Simulation Resource Access Portal FFSE Unsecured EX APSD Airfield Perimeter Surveillance De E CSE Crew Selection Experiment 3 35MaRTS H E Network E D RAVEN Remote Aerial Vehicles for Envir MarSIE Summary This experiment consisted of simulating the Maritime Incursion Scenario Canada Portion in a synthetic environment as a precursor to the live Maritime Sensor Integration Experiment MarSIE trial The purpose was to evaluate sensors and recognized maritime pictures RMP develop a data analysis plan for MarSIE andtest various aspects of the MarSIE concept before implementation The system involved 9 PCs running a large part
3. ESFF RDDC Ottawa R sultats Le portail SEDRA est une application qui supporte la visualisation des op rations de simulation des ressources catalogu es Le portail SEDReDE facilite l entr e de donn es sur les ressources sur une base de donn es MySQL affichable sur le portail SEDRA N anmoins le portail SEDRA soutient une vari t de bases de donn es Ce manuel montre comment d marrer les applications les connecter aux bases de donn es et comment trouver et diter des donn es sur les ressources de simulations Il aborde galement et de fa on br ve la mani re d ex cuter les composantes ex cutables encapsul es dans le les recettes de contr le transmis a la station SEDReC Importance Plus pr cis ment les diverses simulations et exp riences l ESFF sont tr s variables du point de vue chelle architecture fid lit et objectif Pourtant tel que d fini par le projet SNE ces simulations ont tendance tre mal document es difficile r aliser et par cons quent difficile d acc s ou de r utilisation Par cons quence plut t que de b n ficier du savoir faire des projets ant c dents et de r utiliser les composantes r utilisable chaque nouveau projet fini par repartir de z ro iv DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 Table of contents ADStfact eno ee todo dut eio tao te toi eps i BExecuuveSumimaky 551r E etes aa a rE oed reset beta eee Dee Pee REPE Oise Ce ts ii Tabl e of contents eer nr Rte i
4. 24 7 2 Adding a Simulation Resource to the Database eere 25 7 3 Removing a Simulation Resource from the Database 26 7 4 Renaming a Simulation Resource Method 1 sss 28 7 5 Renaming a Simulation Resource Method 2 sse 29 4 6 Bdiunsthe Location uou ete e eger erre i ere cine 29 TA System Warnings to the User 5 ee ete d e eae Ee Te a si ene 29 7 8 Adding Summary Information ss 30 7 9 Editing Summary Information ss 31 7 10 Deleting Summary Information ss 32 DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 8 Exiting SBDRA iens eese etie tte rte pite e nine 33 List of symbols abbreviations acronyms initialisms esee 35 vi DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 List of figures Figure 1 Interaction of SEDRA with SEDReC and SEDReDE eee 5 Fiure 2 Eaurching SEDRA ine nier e m ee Mh en bae ti teet 6 Figure 3 SBDRA at Start up nue em Rete eed aie ee ail ae ERR goce 6 Figure 4 Options menu option aeo tee rte see et ester ae n Nine entere ee taedet Resin a ee a HD ena 8 Figure 5 Portal pr f rences ee e cde ecce dette eee eee see 9 Figure 6 Selecting a database ie aet i edet e e p tei ied 11 Figure 7 Database password dialog box 12 Figure 3 SBDRA connected 4 eU De oe e en ee E Leelee o et Lt da 13 Figure 9 Selecting a resource in the tree ss 14 Figure 10 Select a document for Viewing ee
5. Add option from the popup menu Depending on the type of the node that was right clicked a different set of resource types is presented to the user through a sub menu In Figure 17 a node of type System Group has been right clicked DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 25 SEDReDE Web Portal Mozilla Firefox E oj x File Edit View History Bookmarks Tools Help lt M Y e th IB http localhost arp M B l GIz Google CG A SEDReDE Web Portal Simulation Resource Tree Resource Information FFSE Unsecured Node Information Planning and Prep Docs 3 MALO Introduction Video Name MALO Maritime Air Littoral Tactics Development 3 MALO Concept Architecture and De Location 3 MALO Phasell Tactics Workshop 3 MALO Phasell Presentation D MALO Summary Add gt Document Group Rename Simulation Document Delete System Group Simulation System Reference Figure 17 Adding a Simulation Resource The list of resources that is presented to the user will be consistent with the relationship rules that were given in the previous section Once the user has selected the resource type to be added to the selected node the appropriate database tables are updated with this newly added resource and relationship If this is the first child that has been added to the selected node on the tree then its icon will change to that of a container type To a
6. appear elsewhere in the body of the document itself It is highly desirable that the abstract of classified documents be unclassified Each paragraph of the abstract shall begin with an indication of the security classification of the information in the paragraph unless the document itself is unclassified represented as S C R or U It is not necessary to include here abstracts in both official languages unless the text is bilingual This document is a user manual for the Synthetic Environment Distributed Resources Access SEDRA and Synthetic Environment Distributed Resources Data Entry SEDReDE portals Both applications are part of the Simulation Network Exploitation SNE Tool Suite also known as the Synthetic Environment Distributed Resources SEDR Tool Suite This manual shows how to start the applications connect to databases and find and edit simulations resources data It also discusses briefly how to execute executable data encapsulated in control recipes to be given to the Synthetic Environment Distributed Resources Control SEDReC station Ce document repr sente le manuel de l utilisateur pour le portail d acc s et le portail de saisie de donn es des ressources distribu es des environnements synth tiques Les deux applications font partie du kit d outils d exploitation de r seau de simulations SNE Ce manuel montre comment d marrer les applications comment les connecter aux bases de donn es et comment retrace
7. been described in the two previous sections To modify the location of a simulation resource the user must click within the Location field of the Node Information subsection and begin typing editing the location Node Information Name Document Group Test Location Figure 22 Editing the Location of Simulation Resource As is the case with the Name field the Apply button becomes enabled By pressing the Apply button the new location is stored to the database 7 7 System Warnings to the User As mentioned in the previous two sections any changes made to either the Name or Location fields of the Node Information subsection of the interface will result in the Apply button being enabled This simply indicates to the user that changes have been made that have not yet been DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 29 written to the database If the user selects a different resource from the tree with pressing the Apply button the following warning is displayed DB Changes Warning x You have made changes to the current record that will be lost if you continue without applying them Would like to apply these changes now Java Applet Window Figure 23 Activation of a Launch Procedure from SEDRA If the user presses Yes the uncommitted changes are applied to the record and the interface is updated to reflect the information of the newly selected resource No data is lost i
8. for example a FolderTree database on a local file system or an unrestricted MySQL database A username is added by selecting a database from the list and pressing Add User Note that DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 9 e More than one username can be specified for a particular database This is useful when one user has several profiles for accessing the database e For security reasons only usernames are stored in SEDRA The corresponding passwords have to be specified every time a connection is made e SEDRA stores the Options on a per user basis so each user can define a different set of databases and usernames e The usernames are not checked for validity until connection time Click Accept in the portal preferences dialog box to save any changes made or Cancel to abandon all changes If at least one database entry has been defined then the Connection panel in the main window will be activated 10 DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 5 Connecting SEDRA to a Database To see what simulation resources are described in a database select a database user in the Connection Panel The databases need to be previously defined as described in the previous chapter Simulation Resource Access Portal E File View Tools Help m Connection Database Jarde o 0 gt Connect 3 User name PE Refresh drdc o 2 Le Ber Ponte test HTTP No Auth test HTTP with Auth Filter portal Demo DB SQL at FFSE Y gt EE Clear Hist
9. start processes in a windowing environment This document assumes that the user is comfortable working with GUI based applications and widgets such as Text Boxes Menus Buttons Tree views etc The basic concepts of TCP IP networking such as hostnames IP addresses and URLs would be advisable as well 1 3 Terminology In this document different terms are used for users of the SEDRA portal which interact with the database These people or actors are a User uses the Portal to discover view and or execute simulation resources b Modifier interacts directly with the DB server not the Portal to add change and remove data from the DB more than one person can have modifier status c Portal Admin in charge of user account management for a given DB and other chores such as installation and maintenance of Portals and DBs data backup notifications to users as to URLs of DBs etc This actor interacts with Portal only during installation update and removal of the application d Experts incorporate the meta data into the database using this published method 2 DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 e System Administrators make the knowledge available via the Portal which they install on several computers and a URL to access the database They also maintain the web servers if necessary to access the information referred to in the portal DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 2 System Overview The SEDRA application was designed to c
10. D Defence Research and Recherche et d veloppement Development Canada pour la d fense Canada DEFENCE D FENSE Est Simulation network exploitation SEDRA and SEDReDE portals user manual Oliver Schoenborn and Bassem Mikhael The scientific or technical validity of this Contract Report is entirely the responsibility of the Contractor and the contents do not necessarily have the approval or endorsement of Defence R amp D Canada Defence R amp D Canada Ottawa p CONTRACT REPORT Canada DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 April 2009 Simulation network exploitation SEDRA and SEDReDE portals user manual Oliver Schoenborn Bassem Mikhael CAE Professional Services Prepared By CAE Professional Services 1135 Innovation Dr Suite 300 Ottawa ON K2K 3G7 Contract Project Manager Leo Roberts 613 293 8993 W8475 06BM04 CSA Nacer Abdellaoui Defence Scientist 613 998 4582 The scientific or technical validity of this Contract Report is entirely the responsibility of the Contractor and the contents do not necessarily have the approval or endorsement of Defence R amp D Canada Defence R amp D Canada Ottawa Contract Report DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 April 2009 Contract Scientific Authority Original signed by Nacer Abdellaoui Nacer Abdellaoui Defence Scientist Approved by Julie Tremblay H CARDS Approved for release by Original signed by Pierre Lavoie Pierre Lavoie DRP Chair O Her Majesty the Queen in Right o
11. E in the Future Forces Synthetic Environments FFSE group at DRDC Ottawa The FFSE section of DRDC Ottawa uses a variety of modeling and simulation tools to create virtual experiments and exercises for DND to assist in concept development and to accept or reject hypotheses underlying military tactics and doctrines The simulation tools and experiments at FFSE are very diverse in scale architecture fidelity and purpose Yet as identified by the SNE ARP 13jb they tend to be poorly documented difficult to set up and consequently difficult to access and re use This causes most projects to have to start from scratch rather than leverage components and know how from other projects Appropriate solutions were identified and some of them chosen for implementation as part of 13jb The SEDRA portal assists in this task by allowing the expert to make any and all available documentation for a simulated resource to the users And allow all users a single access portal to access and use system information around the department 1 1 System Background 1 1 1 Concept of Operation SEDRA allows a User to access a variety of information and documentation about simulation resources through a single Graphical User Interface GUI This GUI is intended to facilitate the discovery of searching through and access to a set of simulation resources available on a distributed network of computers The resources may be described in one or more databases on a n
12. SEDRA Options dialog Each database that a User may wish to connect to must have an entry in the Database Definitions panel of that dialog and each database may have 1 or more usernames defined Each Database Definition gives a URL to reach the database server and the type of database server as several types are supported by SEDRA The types of databases that may be accessed currently include e Folder Tree to access information stored on the local host s file system e HTTP access information stored on remote hosts and served via Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTP and e MySQL access information stored in a MySQL database To add a Database definition select the Options menu option Figure 4 in the Tools menu Simulation Resource Access Portal File view Toda Help Connectio Advanced Find Databas Options User name EA Resources Figure 4 Options menu option This will bring up the portal preferences dialog box Figure 5 Note that if SEDRA is already connected to a database when Options is opened then the Database definitions cannot be edited Cancel out of the Options dialog disconnect from the active database and re open the Options dialog 8 DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 Portal Preferences Databases psy users Details Type testMySQL 10 100 18 57 test MySQL 4S arp13jb notAUser drdc o 1 testDBFolderTree FolderTree useri user3 7m drdc o 2 testDBFolderTree Fold
13. a trace of user operations All errors including trace backs are duplicated in this window The log window can be made visible or hidden however the window would typically remain open with a proper error message even in the case where a fatal problem occurs at program start up The user can close it the usual way clicking on the X icon in the upper right corner or via a widget on that window menu item button etc If this happens and the log window disappears then the User can select the appropriate View gt Log Window menu item to re enable the window as desired 6 9 Getting Help If the User wants to know more about the application or wants usage information on line information is available by going to the Help menu DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 21 If the About menu is selected a modal dialog box with information on version number of software and if available version number of underlying libraries wxPython etc If the Help gt Manual menu is selected to get information on how to use application then the user manual in HTML format is shown via the operating system s default web browser Note that this feature is not yet implemented Instead refer to this manual directly 22 DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 7 SEDReDE Entering SEDRA data In addition to providing a means to view the contents of databases of simulation resources information the Simulation Network Tool suite provides a web based interface tha
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15. associated resource If the node represents a control recipe launch script then the User can activate it SEDRA will then create a file containing the recipe and hand it over to SEDReC SEDReC runs in parallel asynchronously and independently from the Portal once launched 20 DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 Resource Tree Description P FFSE Unsecured EJ APSD Airfield Perimeter Surveillance De This is an example of hov D CSE Crew Selection Experiment 4 0 JSMARTS Launch Procedure 2SMARTS2 MALO Maritime Air Littoral Tactics Deve This launches the 1 and a JSAF Blue G Fidelity Sensor fe MAK stealth viewer server to be avail EJ MALO Phase I MALO Phase II Es MALO Phase III CE Planning and Prep Docs P Simulation components Launcher Demo EJ MALO Phase IV P MarSIE Maritime Sensor Int Run Launcher Marsie Figures Report Marsie Task Notes Maritime Incursion Scenario Trial Marsie Rehearsal Report Marsie Task Authorization Form Actions Assume RTI is star Now that the RTI a can be started sim changed to an acti becomes available ll Il lt actionseq name Ci e o a c 3 a 2 cr n o c TD 2 tv J 5 2 a Figure 15 Executing a Recipe 6 8 Toggle Visibility of Log Window The log window shows a time stamped history of status messages that give
16. ccess the newly added node the user must expand the parent node wither by double clicking on it or clicking the little arrow to the left of it If on the other hand the selected node is already expanded then the newly added resource will appear as the last child of the selected node 7 3 Removing a Simulation Resource from the Database The SEDReDE portal also permits the removal of simulation resources from the database To remove a simulation resource simply right click on the appropriate node of the simulation resource tree and select the Delete option Figure 18 26 DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 SEDReDE Web Portal Mozilla Firefox B x File Edit View History Bookmarks Tools Help D S gt S LS G nitp ocahos arp Ei acoge BA SEDReDE Web Portal Simulation Resource Tree Resource Information C3 FFSE Unsecured Node Information Planning and Prep Docs D MALO Introduction Video Name Document Group 3 MALO Concept Architecture and De Location D MALO Phasell Tactics Workshop D MALO Phasell Presentation CA MALO Mantime Air Littoral Tactics Dev SUMMArY DBoum naa Rename Reference gt mu cea Apply Figure 18 Removing a Simulation Resource Once the Delete option has been selected the warning in Figure 19 is displayed Delete Confirmation x 2 You are about to permanently remove the selected node from the da
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18. erTree user2 badXML testNoSec http localhost portalTestDBNoSecurity index xml HTTP nacer oliver Add DB Add User exit Remove M o Accept Cancel Figure 5 Portal preferences To add a database definition click the Add DB button This will show a small dialog where the following information should be entered e Path to database the format of this entry depends on the type of database e An alias name the name that will be shown in the Connection panel in the main window e Database type one of HTTP MySQL or FolderTree case sensitive The database path and type are critical without a path SEDRA doesn t know how to reach the database server and if the type is wrong it will attempt to connect to the database server using the wrong communication protocol The path format for each type is e FolderTree an absolute path on local file system E g c yourDatabases DB 1 index xml e HTTP any valid URL starting with http E g http somehost gc ca somelink html e MySQL a host name or IP and a database name separated by a forward slash E g 10 100 18 57 test would refer to database named test stored on host 10 100 18 57 SEDRA will try to connect to a MySQL server assumed to be running on that host and default MySQL port Once a database definition has been created usernames can be added to it if the database requires it not all databases require connecting with a username
19. etwork while SEDRA allows this information to be presented in a user friendly and useful manner SEDRA also allows accessing recipes of software configurations and execution management of experiments over a distributed network of computers SEDRA delegates the task of viewing executing and editing of recipes to SEDReC 1 1 2 Installation and Setup The SEDRA portal station is installed along with SEDReC Both applications are designed to run on multiple Operation System platforms e g Windows 2000 XP and various flavours of Linux and therefore should possible to install almost any where The detailed installation procedure is described Synthetic Environment Distributed Access System Manual xxx reference DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 1 1 2 Intended Audience This manual is aimed primarily at people who understand distributed simulation and the overall concept of projects involved in a particular department but don t have the detailed experience of a specific simulation Having read this manual you should be able to 1 Startup SEDRA 2 Connect to a database 3 Browse the database for experiments of interest 4 Search through the information in the Database s meta data 5 View and download information referred to in the database 6 Launch SEDReC with a previously configured recipe 1 2 1 Assumed background The readers of this manual should understand some basic information on how to power on computers how to login and
20. f Canada as represented by the Minister of National Defence 2009 Sa Majest la Reine en droit du Canada telle que repr sent e par le ministre de la D fense nationale 2009 Abstract This document is a user manual for the Synthetic Environment Distributed Resources Access SEDRA and Synthetic Environment Distributed Resources Data Entry SEDReDE portals Both applications are part of the Simulation Network Exploitation SNE Tool Suite also known as the Synthetic Environment Distributed Resources SEDR Tool Suite This manual shows how to start the applications connect to databases and find and edit simulations resources data It also discusses briefly how to execute executable data encapsulated in control recipes to be given to the Synthetic Environment Distributed Resources Control SEDReC station R sum Ce document repr sente le manuel de l utilisateur pour le portail d acc s et le portail de saisie de donn es des ressources distribu es des environnements synth tiques Les deux applications font partie du kit d outils d exploitation de r seau de simulations SNE Ce manuel montre comment d marrer les applications comment les connecter aux bases de donn es et comment retracer et diter les diff rentes ressources de simulations Il aborde galement et de fa on br ve la mani re d ex cuter les composantes ex cutables encapsul es dans les recettes de contr le par le biais de la station de c
21. g and execution The relationship between knowledge stored on the network in the form of simulation resources meta data stored in databases SEDRA and SEDReC is represented in Figure 1 Resources databases and the two tools can be located on different machines though SEDReC is always run on same machine as SEDRA when triggered from the latter The tree of simulation resources includes e Simulation systems and simulation components components are typically individual programs whereas systems are groups of programs that work together more or less directly to form a system e Documents text audio video and other types of information stored as files somewhere on the simulation network typically served by an HTTP server Documents therefore have in addition to their summary meta data a URL used to view the document Recipes an XML file that can be given to SEDReC for controlling the start up teardown etc of a complex distributed system of simulation components e Grouping of Systems components and documents to help user browse information Expert Users can group related systems into a group etc 4 DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 Knowledge Repository Servers Discovery Z_ Federation 2 Figure 1 Interaction of SEDRA with SEDReC and SEDReDE Once the User has identified a document simulation resource of interest he can view or save the document locally If the simulation resource is a control recipe the User can
22. ghted in black indicating to the User that the node is hiding a match in one of its children Figure 13 Sim Resources gt Advanced ES rew Selec The objective of the Remote Aerial Vehicles for ENvironrr R E1 JSMARTS monitarina AMEN nraiact Figure 12 Basic Search Pressing the Clear button returns the display to the unfiltered state and clears all the history in the filter box The last item in the drop down Filter combo box is blank indicating no filter This can be selected and the arrow pressed to remove any filtering while keeping the search history 18 DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 Sim Resources Filter s er Resource Tree Description Se a B 3 This is an example launch for some of the MALO corr B 2 as Control Recipe E Es This launches an RTI exec and a JSAF fc oe launches a MAK stealth viewer that spe RepoEditor gateway federate so the viewer can viev Recipe on netwc Only the RTI exec requires a license se ae B lt actionSegq name MAK RTI gt amp E STRIVE First need to start the exec Only ae can federates connect to it B Es run name RTI Exec onHost 131 1 Be 3 MALO If license manager not availab amp more components will eventually appear and thi B STRIVE 3 lt envVar name RTI CONFIG value Nant 2 nmT dix e m lt gt OK Last refresh 1m ago Connected since Jan 04 2008 at 17 07 Fig
23. may fail if e User has insufficient privileges to access the resource e The document is not reachable via URL stored in database link broken e No viewer can handle that document type on the local host In this case an appropriate error message is displayed Resource Tree Description E P Unsecured 7 Cal Poly Paper Title JSMARTS 1 JSMARTS Ini Eo ISMARTS 2 Government B Tech Memo 2005 Actions Description 7 Needs Retrieval Fr A MarSIE is Authors E SE ALIX Save copy as B Kim B Jc Defence R amp E C Herdman Carleton Univ Figure 10 Select a document for Viewing 6 3 Save Document Locally To save a local copy of a Simulation Document the User can browse to the desired document node within any group node and right click on the node If a Save Copy As is available then the user may select it Figure 11 16 DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 As with viewing a document SEDRA attempts to download the document at this time Downloading the document may not be instantaneous When the file is downloaded a file browser dialog is displayed requesting where the file should be stored This operation may fail if e User has insufficient privileges to access the resource e The document is not reachable via URL stored in database link broken e User has insufficient privileges to store downloaded document in chosen location In this case a
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25. mulation Resource Doing this will put the selected node into edit mode and its text becomes highlighted At this point the user can type in a new name for the simulation resource Once the user presses Enter the new name is immediately stored in the database and becomes reflected both in the tree and in the Name field of the Node Information subsection of the interface By pressing ESC edit mode becomes suspended and the old name is restored without any changes being applied to the database 28 DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 7 5 Renaming a Simulation Resource Method 2 The second method of renaming a simulation resource Figure 21 involves interaction with the Name field of the Node Information subsection of the interface The user can simply click anywhere in this field and begin typing a new name Node Information Name Document Group Test Location Figure 21 Another method of Renaming a Simulation Resource As soon as the user begins typing the Apply button will become enabled By pressing the Apply button the new name is stored to the database and the selected node in the Simulation Resource Tree is updated with the value that the user typed 7 6 Editing the Location Every node in the Simulation Resource Tree contains two primary fields Name and Location The values of both of these fields are immediately reflected in the Node Information subsection Modifying the name field has already
26. n Network System identifies five types of container nodes 1 System Group 2 Simulation System 3 Component Group 4 Simulation Component 5 Document Group The Simulation Network System also identifies two types of document nodes 1 Simulation Document 2 Control Recipe Each container type can either store another container type or a document type or both Recursive relationships are also possible in that certain types of containers can contain other containers of the same type This is done to provide maximum flexibility in the way that simulation resources are organized The following table describes all possible container contents relationships in the database Container Type Can Contain System Group e Document Group e Simulation Document 24 DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 e System Group Simulation System Simulation System Document Group Simulation Document Control Recipe Component Group Simulation Component Component Group Document Group Simulation Document Control Recipe Component Group Simulation Component Simulation Component e Document Group e Simulation Document e Control Recipe Document Group e Document Group e Simulation Document 7 2 Adding a Simulation Resource to the Database The most basic operation that can be performed on the database is the addition of a simulation resource This is done by simply right clicking on a node in the tree and selecting the
27. n appropriate error message is displayed Description P Unsecured E Title Cal Poly Paper D ISMARTS 1 JSMARTS Ini P ISMARTS 2 Government PRICE actions Description 1 Needs Retrieval fr MarSIE View Authors f SE ALIX Save copy as B Kim B Jc Defence R amp E C Herdman Carleton Univ Figure 11 Save a local copy of a document 6 4 Searching for Keywords The filter pane on the SEDRA portal allows the User to quickly find all simulation resource meta data containing a string of characters The meta data searched includes simulation resource node names and Summary Description information The actual documents and control recipes are not downloaded for searching as they are typically not stored in the databases To perform a basic search of a single keyword or string of words enter text in the text box in the filter pane and click the right arrow to indicate apply Note that SEDRA saves a history of DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 17 previous searches Figure 12 The User is able to choose a previous search by pressing the down arrow key selecting one of the previous filters and pressing the arrow again When SEDRA searches the simulation resource tree it grays out the nodes that don t match and highlights matches in red If a matching node is not yet visible one of the parents is collapsed the bottom most parent visible is highli
28. n this case If the user presses No then the uncommitted changes are discarded and no modifications are made to the database The user interface is updated to reflect the information of the newly selected resource The SEDReDE portal has been developed to recover from exceptional conditions In addition to the warning message described above a number of other messages are generated depending on the state of the system and the exception that has caused it 7 8 Adding Summary Information As mentioned in the earlier sections every simulation resource contains two primary fields In addition to these fields the user has the ability to add any number of additional fields for the selected resource know as summary fields The name and contents of these fields is arbitrary and depends upon the type of information that the user would like to store about the given simulation resource above and beyond its name and location To add a summary field to a given simulation resource the user must simply select the resource from the tree and press the Add button beneath the Summary Information subsection of the interface Once the user presses this button the following interface will appear in the Summary Information subsection of the interface Name Del Value Figure 24 Summary Field Interface 30 DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 Any number of these can exist for a given simulation result Depending upon the number of summary field
29. ne enin rennen nnne 16 Figure 11 Save a local copy of a document 17 Fieure 12 Basic Search site eee e eode etate te teer 18 Figure 13 Basic Search fesu lts uta en ER TRU e EE IM Eu 19 Figure 14 Refreshing the resource tree 20 Figure 15 Executing Recipe vais gaits eedem Oe 21 Figure 16 SEDReDE Portal User Interface 23 Figure 17 Adding a Simulation Resource ss 26 Figure 18 Removing a Simulation Resource 27 Figure 19 Resource deletion Confirmation ss 27 Figure 20 Renaming a Simulation Resource 28 Figure 21 Another method of Renaming a Simulation Resource 29 Figure 22 Editing the Location of Simulation Resource 29 Figure 23 Activation of a Launch Procedure from SEDRA eee 30 Figure 24 Summary Field Interface 30 Figure 25 List ot Summary Fields ipee aa ee toe tea iced 31 Figure 26 Clear Summary Fields Warning 32 DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 vii This page intentionally left blank viii DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 1 Overview of Document This document is a user manual for the Synthetic Environment Distributed Access SEDRA portal which is one of three applications in the SEDR Tool Suite SEDRA was created along with Synthetic Environment Distributed Resources Control SEDReC station because the Simulation Network Exploitation SNE Advanced Research Program ARP project 13jb identified in 2005 several limitations to the effective exploitation of Synthetic Environments S
30. of the UAV RTB The Common Operating Environment COE and the CAE RTI with 4 5 human operators The large number of entities 100 was achieved by slowing down the update rate for the slow moving ships but not for the fast moving UAVs Figure 8 SEDRA connected DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 13 6 SEDRA Usage Once Connected Once SEDRA has connected to a database the User can browse search and access simulation resources using the database information 6 1 Browse Simulation Resources Tree To see what simulation resources are available and information about each resource a User can click on the top level node of interest Figure 9 causing SEDRA to show the description information displayed in the right pane for the selected node The nodes available to be displayed include Group nodes Documents and Control Recipes Group nodes can be expanded to reveal their children thus forming a structure hierarchy of simulation resources The User can then click on the lower level nodes as desired A document node is a leaf node as it cannot contain children nodes Such a node can refer to any document reachable via a URL text image video sound etc even dynamic content served as HTML e g dynamically generated reports from a website Documents should be stored on the network in a platform independent format e g PDF rather than MS Word DOC etc Control Recipes are documents that contain text and commands and can be
31. onnect to a variety of databases and has the ability to support more databases via a simple plug in system The User selects which database to connect to and if required by the database plug in which login credentials to use The SEDRA portal gets data from the database and displays it as a tree of simulation resources Each simulation resource can have a description which consists of an arbitrary set of field content pairs This is referred to as meta data since it is data about data The databases do not contain the data i e simulation resources only the meta data about the resources The User can e Browse the simulation resource tree by selecting nodes of the tree which displays the associated simulation resource s meta data in an easy to read format e Expand and collapse group nodes of the tree to get higher level of details e Search nodes of the tree for specific keywords and e View simulation resources that are documents or recipes The SEDRA Portal does not have any intelligence about viewing editing or executing the data It delegates this to the Operating System for viewing or other applications In particular the task of editing the data in a database is delegated to SEDReDE which is accessible only to Modifiers Portal Administrators and Expert Users Similarly even though SEDRA can show a recipe in the summary description panel for a recipe resource it gives the recipe to the SEDReC station if installed for viewin
32. ontr le des ressources distribu es SEDReC DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 This page intentionally left blank DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 Executive summary Simulation network exploitation SEDRA and SEDReDE portals user manual O Schoenborn B Mikhael DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 Defence R amp D Canada Ottawa April 2009 Introduction or background This document is a user manual for the Synthetic Environment Distributed Resources Access SEDRA and Synthetic Environment Distributed Resources Data Entry SEDReDE portals Both applications are part of the Simulation Network Exploitation SNE Tool Suite also known as the Synthetic Environment Distributed Resources SEDR Tool Suite SEDRA was created to address some of the issues identified as part of the Simulation Network Exploitation SNE Advanced Research Program ARP project 13jb identified in 2005 in the Future Forces Synthetic Environments FFSE group at DRDC Ottawa Results The SEDRA portal is a desktop application that supports view only operations on the catalogued simulation resources The SEDReDE portal facilitates simulation resources data entry into a MySQL database for display in the SEDRA portal The SEDRA portal itself supports however a variety of databases via database proxy plug ins This manual shows how to start the applications connect to databases and find and edit simulations resources data It also discusses briefly how to execute executable da
33. press Apply button Once pressed all summary fields and their currently displayed contents are stored to the database and associated with the currently selected simulation resource If another simulation resource is selected from the tree before the changes are applied the user is given the same warning as for the Node Information and given the opportunity to either apply or discard the changes DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 31 7 10 Deleting Summary Information There are two ways for a user to remove summary information fields for a given simulation resource individually and completely Each summary field is treated as a unit in the user interface and has its own delete button marked del Simply pressing the del for a given summary field will permanently remove it from the database and will result in the user interface being updated so as to reflect only the remaining summary fields for the selected simulation resource if any remain after deletion The other method of removing summary fields from a simulation resource involves the use of the Clear button that appears beneath the Summary Information subsection of the user interface When this button is pressed the following warning is presented to the user Delete Confirmation 1 x You are about to permanently remove the summary fields for this record Are you sure you want to do this Yes No Java Applet Window Figure 26 Clear Summary Fields Warning If the u
34. processed by SEDReC to run a distributed simulation as defined by the recipe They are stored inside the database or on the network Resource Tree E E FFSE Unsecured APSD Airfield Perimeter Surveillance De CSE Crew Selection Experiment JSMARTS ISMARTS2 ics Pane Air Littoral Techs Deve MUX Multi UAV Experiment Matlab Ottawa Network RAVEN Remote Aerial Vehicles for Envir COCOOCOUUE Figure 9 Selecting a resource in the tree The information displayed in the description field consists of formatted text and is not regulated by SEDRA Departmental policies would typically suggest what information should be contained For example 14 DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 e System summary description panel Project lead or Point of Contact When was created period When last modified Description objective goals conclusion Classification Network e Executable component summary description panel Role How obtained created purchased open source when Author or vendor Version Location of executable which computer building city Classification Network e Document node summary description panel Number of pages Date last updated Version Intended audience Assumed experience background expertise Summary Where stored Classification Network e Group nodes nodes that have children could have An
35. r et diter les diff rentes ressources de simulations Il aborde galement et de fagon br ve la mani re d ex cuter les composantes ex cutables encapsul es dans les recettes de contr le par le biais de la station de contr le des ressources distribu es SEDReC 14 KEYWORDS DESCRIPTORS or IDENTIFIERS Technically meaningful terms or short phrases that characterize a document and could be helpful in cataloguing the document They should be selected so that no security classification is required Identifiers such as equipment model designation trade name military project code name geographic location may also be included If possible keywords should be selected from a published thesaurus e g Thesaurus of Engineering and Scientific Terms TEST and that thesaurus identified If it is not possible to select indexing terms which are Unclassified the classification of each should be indicated as with the title Modeling amp Simulation Synthetic Environments Distributed Simulation Data Management Knowledge Management Remote Access Software Defence R amp D Canada R amp D pour la d fense Canada Canada s leader in Defence Chef de file au Canada en mati re and National Security de science et de technologie pour Science and Technology la d fense et la s curit nationale DEFENCE n DEFENSE C www drdc rddc gc ca
36. s the user may have to scroll to the one just added New summary fields are always added to the end of the list Summary Name Del Value Name Del Value Figure 25 List of Summary Fields The immediate effect of pressing the Add button is twofold The first effect is that the newly added summary field appears in the appropriate region of the user interface The second effect is that a blank summary field is added to the appropriate tables of the database There is currently no restriction on blank summary fields in the database A summary field consists of two fields a name and a value The contents of these fields are left to the discretion of the user The value however can contain multiple lines of text depending upon what is being stored If multiple lines of text are used to store the Value information the field will be displayed with vertical scrollbars as needed For the purpose of clarity word wrap is enabled on all Value fields so that no horizontal scrollbars are ever displayed 7 9 X Editing Summary Information The method in which summary information is edited is similar to that of the Node Information discussed previously When a summary field is first added its content is blank by default When the user types anything in either the Name or Value fields or both the Apply button becomes enabled To save changes made to either of these fields the user must
37. sections being updated with the currently stored information for the selected node Each simulation resource in the tree will always have a name and a location and can have any number of summary fields regardless of its type DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 23 Every node in the resource tree can either refer to a container type or a document resource The root node is always a container of type System Group and contains all other simulation resources The various container and document types and their relationships are discussed in the next section Once the user navigates to the SEDReDE portal interface the resource tree is populated with the contents of the root node and any resource that it contains By default the root node is selected and all of its pertinent information is displayed in the node information and summary information subsections of the interface At the initialization of the system all nodes contained within the root node appear to be of a document type leaf nodes By selecting one or all of these nodes its contained objects if any will be loaded from the database and its icon will change to reflect its identity as a container type This is done by convention to minimize the amount of time taken to load the database by allowing the user to load only those portions of interest Each node in the database is only populated once when it is first selected by the user 7 1 Types of SEDR Nodes and their Relationships The Simulatio
38. ser presses Yes then all summary fields from the selected simulation resource are removed from the database and from the user interface If the user presses No then no changes are made 32 DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 8 Exiting SEDRA To exit SEDRA simply select the File gt Quit menu option Remember that instances of the SEDReC station run independently of SEDRA and therefore need to be closed individually if desired DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 33 34 This page intentionally left blank DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 List of symbols abbreviations acronyms initialisms ARP DB DND DRDC DRDKIM FFSE GUI HLA HTTP MALO RPyC RTI SE SEDR SEDRA SEDReC SEDReDE SNE URL XML R amp D Advanced Research Program Database Department of National Defence Defence Research amp Development Canada Director Research and Development Knowledge and Information Management Future Forces Synthetic Environments Graphical User Interface High Level Architecture Hypertext Transfer Protocol Maritime Air Littoral Operations a project at FFSE Remote Python Calls package written for interacting with remote computers via Python HLA Real Time Infrastructure Synthetic Environments Synthetic Environment Distributed Resources SEDR Access SEDR Control SEDR Data Entry Simulation Network Exploitation Uniform Resource Locator Extensible Markup Language a way of structuring information Research a
39. t allows MySQL type databases to be edited This interface is known as the Synthetic Environment Distributed Resource Data Entry SEDReDE portal and is shown in Figure 16 SEDReDE Web Portal Mozilla Firefox E Iu olx File Edit View History Bookmarks Tools Help is e ft O http localhost arp El Ix GIF Google Te A z SEDReDE Web Portal Simulation Resource Tree Resource Information CI FFSE Unsecured Node Information Planning and Prep Docs e 3 MALO Introduction Video Name IF FSE Unsecured 3 MALO Concept Architecture and De Location htto vaww myurl com 3 MALO Phasell Tactics Workshop D MALO Phasell Presentation D MALO Maritime Air Littoral Tactics Dew Summary Name system Group Del Value System Group Figure 16 SEDReDE Portal User Interface The SEDReDE portal is an intuitive interface that allows the user to easily make and see modifications to the database in real time It has been developed to resemble the SEDRA portal so that familiarity with it will facilitate the use of SEDReDE The interface is divided into 2 main regions the Simulation Resource Tree and Resource Information section The Resource Information section is further subdivided into 2 sections the Node information section and the Summary information Both of these regions are linked so that selection of a specific tree node result in the fields of the sub
40. ta encapsulated in control recipes to be given to the Synthetic Environment Distributed Resources Control SEDReC station Significance Specifically the simulation tools and experiments at FFSE are very diverse in scale architecture fidelity and purpose Yet as identified by the SNE ARP 13jb they tend to be insufficiently documented difficult to set up and consequently difficult to access and re use This causes most projects to have to start from scratch rather than leverage components and know how from other projects DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 iii Sommaire Simulation network exploitation SEDRA and SEDReDE portals user manual Oliver Schoenborn Mikhael B DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 R amp D pour la d fense Canada Ottawa Avril 2009 Introduction ou contexte Ce document repr sente le manuel de l utilisateur du portail d acces des ressources distribu es des environnements synth tiques SEDRA et du portail de saisie de donn es des ressources distribu es des environnements synth tiques SEDReDE Les deux applications font partie du kit d outils d exploitation du r seau de simulation SNE galement connu sous le nom de suite d outils de ressources distribu es des environnements synth tique SEDR SEDRA a t cr pour certaines lacunes identifi es dans le cadre du projet sur l exploitation du r seau de simulation SNE a l int rieur au sein de la section Environnements Synth tiques des Forces du Future
41. tabase Are you sure you want to do this Java Applet Window Figure 19 Resource deletion Confirmation Upon the user s confirmation of the deletion the selected resource and any contained resources are removed from the tree In addition appropriate deletions are made from all relevant tables in DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 27 the database Please note that this option is not available with the root node System Group of the tree 7 4 Renaming a Simulation Resource Method 1 There are two main methods to renaming a simulation resource through the SEDReDE portal The first method involves interaction with the Simulation Resource Tree directly To rename a simulation resource by direct interaction with the resource tree simply right click on the appropriate node of the tree and select Rename SEDReDE Web Portal Mozilla Firefox n x Fle Edit View History Bookmarks Tools Help e z e fit Li http localhost arp la GH Googie q Q SEDReDE Web Portal Simulation Resource Tree Resource Information E FFSE Unsecured Node Information Planning and Prep Docs 3 MALO Introduction Video Name Document Group 3 MALO Concept Architecture and De Location MALO Phasell Tactics Workshop D MALO Phasell Presentation E MALO Maritime Air Littoral Tactics Dev D uns Add gt Rename Delete Summary Reference Figure 20 Renaming a Si
42. transfer to SEDReC for further exploration and execution of the recipe DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 5 3 SEDRA Portal Startup The system administrator who installed the SEDRA portal should have created a shortcut on the desktop Figure 2 Launch Portal Figure 2 Launching SEDRA When SERDA is launched it comes up in disconnected mode Figure 3 Wil Simulation Resource Access Portal File View Tool Help Connection Database drdc 0 0 y User name Y Refresh Sim Resources Filter Clear Hist Resource Tree Description Figure 3 SEDRA at Start up SEDRA portal has a e Connection panel e Filter panel e Tree view of the simulation resources names and a e Description panel that shows a formatted view of the meta data associated to the selected tree node 6 DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 Almost all of which is disabled until connected to a database If the databases to be accessed have been previously defined in SEDRA there is no need re enter the information every time the portal is started however the first time that SEDRA is started there are no databases defined and therefore need to be setup The following chapter will explain how to specify databases of interest and how to connect to them DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 7 4 SEDRA Database Definitions The main panel in SEDRA contains a Connection group which shows Databases and associated Usernames that have been defined in the
43. ure 13 Basic Search results 6 5 Adding or Modifying Simulation Resource Information Adding or modifying Simulation Resources information in a database is accomplished via a separate application the Synthetic Environment Distributed Resources Data Entry SEDReDE portal described in section 7 Once the database is edited by the Modifier and has the new simulation resource info available the User can refresh the database by pressing the Refresh button in the Connection pane As described in the next section 6 6 Refresh Displayed Resource Tree If the database being browsed is updated by a Modifier or Portal Admin the User must manually refresh the display To do so the User presses the Refresh button in the Connection pane as shown in Figure 14 DRDC Ottawa CR 2008 310 19 When the database is refreshed SEDRA regenerates tree view only the root level tree of the database is shown Any positional browsing information indicating which node s were P Unsecured expanded collapsed selected x included is lost B Cal Poly Paper E JSMARTS 1 E JSMARTS 2 E MarSIE MUS Resource Tree F FE E E SE ALIX Figure 14 Refreshing the resource tree 6 7 Execute a Recipe When connected and if the portal is configured to access a launcher a user can browse to an executable node right click on the node and see operations available on
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