THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN MADE OBSOLETE BY THE RELEASE OF SUBSEQUENT VERSIONS.
I STRONGLY SUGGEST INSTALLING A LATER VERSION.

[this is *totally* a work in progress; please send suggestions/improvements to jtvh@bu.edu]

*** Installing, configuring, and starting up AGTk alpha software on WindowsXP ***

(A document about installing AG Toolkit 2.0 on linux can be found at http://hpcnc.cpe.ku.ac.th/moin/InstallingAccessGrid)

These instructions should work properly with alpha-02 and alpha-03.1

from http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/fl/research/accessgrid/software/software.html
* install ActiveState Python 2.2
* install wxPython
* install Python logging module
* install WinGlobus

from http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/fl/research/accessgrid/software/2.0-alpha2/index.html
* install AG Toolkit

>From the start menu, run Globus Configuration
* you'll get to a point where it'll want to know where your user certificate is. You 
can put it wherever you want if you point Globus in the right place to find it
* the config UI will tell you your proxy certificate is missing; that's okay, just 
click "next"

>From the start menu, run Globus Grid Proxy Init
* A GUI window will pop up. Click on the button that says "Create"
* In the next GUI window that pops up, click "OK"
* You will be prompted for the passphrase you created when you initially requested your Globus certificate; enter it in the appropriate field and click "OK"
* You'll be returned to the original GUI window (title bar says "Grid Proxy Init". Click "Done"

Open two command windows and in the directory where you installed AG2, run AGNodeService 
and AGServiceManager



>From the start menu, run Node Manager

In the Node Management GUI, select "Attach to Node" from the pull-down menu. When it asks 
you for an address, give it https://localhost:11000/NodeService

In the Node Management GUI, select "Add Host" from the pull-down menu. When it asks you for 
an address, give it https://localhost:12000/ServiceManager

You can then start adding services, from the pull-down menu. The services are named
pretty intuitively; by choosing services, you are choosing which media types you want 
to send and receive. They might not show up immediately in the GUI after being added; 
also, the GUI says they're started when you add them, but they're not. Plus, you'll 
probably need to turn off encryption (in vic and rat, in the usual way) in order to 
connect with anybody else (encryption is turned on by default, but unless I'm mistaken 
there's some problem on the server end preventing it from working properly). 



>From the Start menu, run Venue Client. WARNING: the Venue Client often asks you for 
information in windows that may be minimized. Watch your Windows task bar carefully for 
them.

The Venue Client should prompt you for a Venue Server address. Give it one, in the form 
of https://host:8000/VenueServer . You may want to try connecting to https://vv2.mcs.anl.gov:9000/Venues/default .

Once you connect to the Venue Server, the Venue Client GUI will appear



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