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2105 Federal Blvd
(303) 586-3372
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This is the best truck rental location I've ever used in 25 years of experience. The managers are extremely efficient and easy to work with. Plus, having a gas station on site saves everybody tons of time and trouble.
Male was very rude and seemed to be bothered. Not much customer service at the actual site. Very disappointed
I will continue to rent from this location. I am very pleased with the fast and competent individuals that manage this location. They make my weekly rental, a pleasant experience.
i couldn't imagin they are so much frindly and helpfull.apriciate so much.
Great location, great assistance from the individuals behind the counter, love being able to fill gas before returning.
The guys that manage the Sinclair station are very knowledgeable and helpful. I rent weekly and have established a very good rapport with them. Each week they are very accommodating. I will continue to rent from them, and reccommend them to my family, friends and coworkers!
The man working behind the counter was not helpful and continuously made snarky remarks of how I was messing up. He made ME do all the work connecting the trailer. Lastly, the trailer needed a wire to go from the trailer to the plug on my car. He insisted that I needed to buy one an there was nothing he could do. With that, he made me drive out without functional break lights. I went to another location where I was given the cord and was told that the Federal's location approach was unacceptable. Incredibly disappointed in the Federal location and customer service. Place is sleazy. Will never go back.
Truck was a bit dirty inside. We swept it out before returning....
No issues.. Rental went very smoothly
If you have ever wondered why it takes a half hour for some poor U-Haul employee to stare at a computer and do whatever it is their system needs to do before you can get on your way (or the 3 people in front of you in line) then this is your new favorite location. Man are they fast. As fast as paying for gas. Friendly too.
Helped me get a cab. Thanks. Because I was beat
First off, the guy seemed really cool and gave me a few extra hours, which is great. It was a miserable rainy day and I appreciated that.
Heres the big problem..I was charged for fuel (at an extra 1.5 gallons - you tell me what other vehicle you put that in - seriously?) that was completely unnecessary. They told me to return it at 3/4 of a tank. In fact, I put more fuel in the truck than it needed to be safe. I think this is absolutely ridiculous. I followed every procedure and would have loved to recommend you guys to others in the future. Learn how to be a true business person and not burn your bridges. I run multiple business and realize how important relationships, networks, references and overall fairness is to being successful. Get real guys I KNOW that tank was over 3/4 full. Give a little more and get huge returns. Try it sometime - you started off on a good foot, but ended badly.
Good and fast service
Limited selection of moving supplies.
No tie-off rope available.
Inside of cab was dirty.
Check engine light was on.
I was very happy with service and treated very politely.
not sure why I am getting this for the second time but will go with it the dolly was a piece of crap and so was customer service told them two months in advanced we needed a trailer when the day came there were none. it took to extra days and a different uhaul to be able to find a trl and it was 40 miles away will never use uhaul again
I just wanted to say thanks here instead - no improvements are needed!! Everyone, from the person on the phone to when I got my rental were very professional while still maintaining their kindness and care for my needs. It was affordable and I really appreciate that the final bill is all together and they check the van right upon return and not the next business day or something like that. That was very helpful to me.
I would certainly return and recommend to friends and family. Thank you so much!!
The gentleman at Sinclair Station was very nice, quick and turned thew AC on before I had to get in the van.
Henry was really nice and helpful.
Great service
I reserved online and provided my credit card. I then did the early check in. I called on Friday to make sure everything was OK--told yes. When I sent my friend to pick up the truck, they said they did not have my credit card info and would not accept it over the phone and required $100 cash. I am furious and will never use you again
make sure the dollies are in working order .Not only that but I had made a reservation two months in advanced and they did not have what I had ordered had to drive 20 miles to this location to have what we ordered poor customer service on the phone and should have been rein bust the money for travel to pick up the uhaul for fuel
Our equipment wasn't ready at our pick-up location. We were told by the pick-up location we had to call the 800 # to get the $50 refund; when I called the 800 #, I was told to inform the personnel at the drop-off location. Sinclair on Federal Blvd was our drop off location. When we asked about the guarantee refund, we were told to call the 800 #. At this point, it would have been nice to have a person help us ensure we got the owed refund. Other than that, this location is just a gas station with lots of U-hauls.
Good experience. Nice guys who checked me in and out. Plan on going back to this location when I need to get my stuff out of storage.
nothing, polite truck was ready when promised
Difficult to access with a trailer. We did after hours drop-off and had no idea where to park it.
2 muscular guys work there are just awesome,thats all I can say.
Very happy to gave my business to them :-)
Good service
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Everything was great!
Great customer service and very efficient.
Very unethical business; was double charged for 2 separate items that were not used. Asked for and received 12 furniture pads but was charges for 24. Used 1 dolly and only received 1 dolly but was charged for 2. Several local taxes in addition that are not part of the online reservation price. Clerk did not disclose an additional 10% fee for paying with a credit card. The amount shows up on your online receipt. Very sketchy business- super unethical. I would use Budget from now on. They are up front and honest. Shame on you Uhaul for allowing your satellite locations to be ran by such shady unethical business owners. I would only use this place if you are ready to be taken advantage of and overcharged for items that you did not receive.
The guys were great and very helpful but the fact that it was not a store was a hindrance. The Alameda St.location in Denver, where I made my reservation, should have told me that I would need a raised hitch. They were not the most helpful. The guy behind the counter was nice but didn't seem very knowledgeable and the woman helping him seemed too busy for anything. They were responsible for letting me know what the specifications of my car needed to be before pulling a trailer. They looked at my car and said it was fine.I went to the pickup location on a Sunday, not knowing it was a pickup point and not a store so they were the ones who had to tell me that there was no way of pulling a trailer with the current hitch height. They were very nice,helpful but couldn't help me with hitches adapters. I know that Uhaul company stores have the different size extenders (I saw them at the drop off location). We had to drive around to auto stores and finally find one that knew what we were talking about and had one. $117 later we finally were able to drive off with the trailer and our trip was delayed a day. The pick up location was not a store and the reservation location wasn't very knowledgeable and helpful. The pickup location was at least helpful in telling us what we needed so we could go on our way.
My salesman was very friendly and helpful. Moving is such a tiring experience. It helps to work with someone who is understanding.
They told me they would give me two extra days and 20 extra miles for free but it was not free. It ended up costing me 100 dollars more than my online quoted price. Also he I ordered a lock and mattress cover online and he told me that I hadn't paid for them yet and made me buy them when in actuality the lock and cover where at a different location. AND Your useless costumer service won't refund my money for things I never recieved. And I had to hold for 2 hours to find this out.
Very clean and new trucks. Very accommodating to the customer!
Late drop off available! I dropped it off just before 10pm and there was still someone to check out with.
Everything was overly rushed and busy... He forgot our packing blankets and never refunded us. The truck smelled like body odor and cigarettes.
The person working there was not helpful and quite rude and took forever. I did not have all my moving blankets and he told me I could not return them at a later date then talked to someone on the phone for 15 minutes before letting me know I will be charged and then refunded when I return it. I have yet to see my refund. The guy was terrible and I will never go there again and will use Ryder exclusively from here on out.
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A reader over at Gizmodo joked that their dog was for cleaning the keyboard; another said he's done this numerous times and that the only thing worse for the wear is the letters are wearing off; and a number of them said they just buy another keyboard.
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For me, I use a can of compressed air to blow out all the unwanted bits. I have a see through Apple keyboard, which can be annoying since you have to keep it clean unless you want it looking like some dingy repository for... stuff. But on the plus side, it reminds you how dirty your hands can be and is therefore a good reminder to wash one's hands often!
I use a q-tip dipped in rubbing alcohol to clean the keys.
Does anyone have any good tips for cleaning laptop screens?
mango, pick up some iKlear wipes at a computer store. Supposed to work quite nicely.

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This chapter describes how to use Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder, and includes the following sections:
Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder provides the following user interfaces depending on which parts of the product you have installed:
When you have installed Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio the following interfaces are supported:
Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio graphical user interface
abctl, a command-line tool.
Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio and
abctl interact with Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Deployer as a Web client. In a suitably configured Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio environment, you can perform deployment through the configured connection to Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Deployer using either the graphical user interface or abctl.
When you have installed Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Deployer the following interfaces are supported:
abctl, a command-line tool.
A Web service API to interface with Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Deployer Web service, as described in Oracle Virtual Assembly Developer's Guide.
When only Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Deployer is installed, you can access only a subset of the commands. When Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio is installed, or Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio and Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Deployer are installed, you can access all the commands. See Appendix A, "Command Line Reference".
You cannot launch two sessions of either the Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio or
Launch Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio by executing the command:
For information on installation, see Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Installation Guide.
Figure 5-1 shows Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio.
Launch the
abctl command-line tool by executing the command:
The log file is stored at
Access the log file manually, or view its messages through Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio in the Messages window.
The Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio and
abctl interfaces complement each other but do not include identical functionality. Here are the main differences:
When running in Deployer-only mode only the
abctl interface is supported.
Only Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio provides editing capability. That is, the following operations are not supported in
managing file set definitions: creating, updating and deleting file set definitions
managing target connections: creating, deleting or editing existing target connections
editing property values
creating/editing a deployment plan
In Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio, you can introspect multiple reference systems and put the results into a new or existing assembly. In
abctl, you must introspect reference systems one-by-one and subsequently add them to an assembly.
abctl provides the ability to create a 'target' connection to an Oracle VM 3.0 environment. Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio does not have a connection wizard.
Also, you can only make a Deployer connection using
External virtual machine templates can only be imported into the catalog as external appliances using
These differences will be further detailed in Section 5.3, "Operations Related to Creating an Assembly".
Any user-provided names must follow these rules:
The name must begin with an alphabetic character.
The name may only contain alphanumeric characters, or the underscore (_) or hyphen (-) characters.
The name must be 4 to 40 characters long.
You may experience a name conflict between appliances or assemblies in a catalog if you import an appliance or assembly into a catalog where you already have an appliance or assembly with the same name. If you want to overwrite the existing appliance or assembly you can use the
force option.
Users will typically use Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder in these ways:
Create assemblies and appliances:
introspect a reference system to capture the necessary metadata and configuration information for all components that make up the appliances within an assembly.
Edit assemblies and appliances to configure the relationships among the appliances and any external resources.
create networks within an assembly
create network interfaces within an appliance
bind appliance inputs to network interfaces and bind network interfaces to networks
create external resources from an appliance output
Prepare deployment artifacts necessary for the assembly:
Create bootable virtual machine disk images with customized Oracle Enterprise Linux operating system distributions and configurable metadata allowing for deploy-time customization of the software component
Deploy: deploy the assembly into your environment.
configure security: define the connection to Oracle VM or Oracle Exalogic backend endpoints and add deployment targets in the backend.
create and edit a deployment plan
register an assembly archive to a target
deploy assembly instances
perform other lifecycle operations on assembly instances
This section details how you will use Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio or
abctl command line utility to perform operations related to creating an assembly.
Section 5.3.2, "Capture File Sets for an Appliance or an Assembly"
Section 5.3.3, "Create Templates for an Appliance or an Assembly"
Section 5.3.4, "Edit an Assembly Using Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio"
The introspection operation results in appliance(s) and/or an assembly (if you performed the operation using Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio and created an assembly) being created in the catalog.
During introspection, the metadata for appliances and assemblies is created in the
$AB_INSTANCE/catalog/metadata directory. A unique ID (called the capture ID or cid) is generated for each appliance or assembly, and is stored in its metadata. In addition, a file set definition is created in the shared area of the catalog.
You should not change any configuration or content of the reference system between introspection and capturing file sets, as that may create undesired results. For instance, introspecting a reference system on one date and capturing file sets in the "same" reference system at some arbitrary future date is not supported.
For introspection to succeed, some introspection plug-ins have specific requirements for the reference system's running state. Table 5-1 lists the preconditions for the products supported by Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder.
Table 5-1 Introspection Plug-in Requirements
|Introspected Product
|Running State Pre-Condition
Oracle WebLogic Server
Administration Server must be up and in the running state (not in the admin state). Managed Server(s) may be up or down.
Oracle Coherence*Web
Administration Server must be up and in the running state (not in the admin state). Managed Server(s) may be up or down.
Oracle Forms*Web
Administration Server must be up and in the running state (not in the admin state). Managed Server(s) may be up or down.
Oracle SOA for WebLogic Server
Administration Server must be up and in the running state (not in the admin state). Managed Server(s) may be up or down.
Oracle HTTP Server (OHS)
No requirement; Oracle HTTP Server may be up or down.
Oracle Web Cache
No requirement; Oracle Web Cache may be up or down.
Oracle RDBMS (DB)
In the introspection phase, the database can be up or down.
Oracle RACDB
In the introspection phase, the database can be up or down.
Oracle Reports
Administration Server must be up and in the running state (not in the admin state). Managed Server(s) may be up or down.
Oracle Traffic Director
In the introspection phase, the Oracle Traffic Director application can be up or down.
Oracle Tuxedo
In the introspection phase, the Tuxedo application can be up or down.
Oracle Virtual Assembly does not support introspection or deployment of reference systems with mounted NFS file systems.
Custom reconfiguration scripts provide you the ability to add custom scripts to an appliance that will be run on a virtual machine as part of deployment of the appliance. With this feature you can configure and operate a custom product or appliance that gets deployed with an Oracle product in an appliance.
To use this feature, place shell scripts in a well-known location on a reference system so that those scripts are picked up during introspection of that system. The captured scripts are executed on the VM when the corresponding operation is performed on the deployed Oracle product.
This feature is not supported for external virtual machine templates imported in Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder catalog as External Appliances.
Place custom scripts into a set of sub-directories under a well-known root custom script directory named
/ovab/scripts.d/. This directory is analogous to the Linux
/etc/rc.d/ root directory which contains a set of sub-directories with well-known names (
rc0.d/, rc1.d/, rc2.d/,...). Similar to
/etc/rc.d/, each subdirectory contains a set of one or more scripts that get executed at the appropriate time. You can create the following subdirectories within the
/ovab/scripts.d/ directory:
It is not necessary to create the custom script directories that you do not need.
These directories correspond to three actions performed on the VM: config, start, and stop. Custom scripts located in directories that start with "pre-" get executed before the corresponding action is performed on the deployed Oracle product and custom scripts located in directories that start with "post-" get executed afterwards.
The "config" action is executed only once at initial deployment after the VM has fully started. The "start" action is executed after a "config" action and at any other time when the deployed Oracle product is started as part of assembly start operation initiated from Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder. The "stop" action is executed when deployed Oracle product is stopped as part of assembly stop operation initiated from Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder.
At the end of introspection, Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder checks for the existence of custom script directories on the reference system and adds any found scripts to the appliance.
Example 5-1 shows a root custom script directory:
Example 5-1 Root Custom Script Directory
/ovab/scripts.d/ pre-config.d/ 00configthis.sh 01configthat.sh post-config.d/ 00configotherthing.sh pre-start.d/ 00startthisfirst.sh 01startthatsecond.sh post-start.d/ 00startotherthinglast.sh ...
The scripts are added automatically to the appliance template with the rest of the appliance metadata at introspection time.
Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder executes scripts as follows:
All scripts are launched as root at deploy time by Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder. Custom scripts are responsible for switching to another user as needed.
Scripts are executed one at a time in lexicographical order.
Custom scripts must complete in a timely fashion. The action being performed can only complete after all necessary custom scripts have executed and the action has also been performed against the deployed Oracle product.
No arguments are passed to scripts.
The exit status of custom scripts is ignored.
As scripts are launched, details of each launch is recorded on the VM in a file named "command.out" located in the
/assemblybuilder/logs/ directory. The output of each script, unless otherwise redirected by the script, is sent to a separate file in the
/assemblybuilder/logs/ directory. The name of each file is recorded in "command.out" as each script is executed.
This feature allows an introspection to pick up properties from one or more property file on the reference system during introspection, and for those properties to be added to the resulting appliance/assembly as user properties so they can be edited.
During deployment, the set of original properties including any modifications by the user are made available to scripts provided by the user to perform custom processing based on those properties.
To get property files picked up automatically during dehydration, the user will need to place the property files in the well-known directory:
This directory must reside on the same machine as the underlying product that is being captured. Within that directory, property files must conform to the following naming scheme:
<filename> must not contain ':' as this character will serve as a delimiter in property name generation.
Files within the properties directory that do not conform to the above naming scheme will be blindly transferred with the Appliance without reading it to generate additional user properties. This allows the user to provide additional files that may contain internal properties or other information to aid in the processing of user properties during reconfiguration.
A property file must consist of zero or more lines where each line must be a property declaration, a comment, or a blank line. More formally, a property file must comply with the following syntax:
property-file = *line line = prop-decl | comment | blank-line prop-decl = name "=" value NL comment = *WS "#" *CHAR NL blank-line = *WS NL name = <any character in "a".."z", "A".."Z", "0".."9", "_", "-", "."> value = *XATTRCHAR XATTRCHAR = <any CHAR, escaped as necessary for XML element attribute interpretation> CHAR = <any character, excluding CTL (and NL), but including WS> CTL = <any control character (octets 0 -31) and DEL (127)> NL = <platform dependent line termination sequence> WS = <white space character>
Any property file that does not comply with the above syntax rules will result in an error and an appliance will not be created.
Property declarations must be contained on a single line. Ending a line with "\" will not result in line continuation.
All properties will be marked as "required" in the appliance metadata. Property declarations without any assigned value (nothing after "=") will be set to null in the appliance metadata requiring that the user assign a value to that property prior to deployment.
Whitespace is not permitted anywhere to the left of "=" in a property declaration. Whitespace to the right of "=" is assumed to be part of the intended value and will be preserved.
Comments and blank lines are preserved at dehydration and will be reproduced when the file is regenerated at rehydration.
Each *.userprops file in the properties directory will be read and an appliance user property will be generated for each property in each file. Property names will be modified by adding a prefix to designate that the property is a custom property and that the property belongs to a specific properties file as follows:
<filename> part comes from the properties filename with the ".userprops" suffix removed. The
<propname> part is copied directly without modification from the property name found in the property file.
The user, during editing, will see the entire property name. At reconfiguraiton when the property files are recreated, the "
custom:<filename>:" prefix will be removed and will not appear in the property files (that is, the property names originally found in the files will be preserved in the recreated files).
As indicated in the Property File section above, property values must conform to the requirements of XML element attributes. Any necessary escaping of characters in property values is the responsibility of the user when creating property files.
During reconfiguration, the user properties in the appliance will be traversed and all properties with a "
custom:<filename>:" prefix will be added to a properties file under the indicated filename (with ".userprops" suffix added).
The order of properties and the comments within the original properties file are preserved in the regenerated properties file.
All generated properties files will be placed into the same directory. The full path to that directory will be passed to all reconfiguration scripts as an environment variable with the following name:
The Create Assembly dialog allows you to create a new assembly, name it, select which appliances to introspect, and provide values required by the Introspector for those appliances. You can access this dialog by selecting File > New > Assembly.
In the Name Assembly pane (Figure 5-2), enter information for the following fields:
Assembly Name: a name for the new assembly
Default Vnet Name: the default name of the Vnet
Description: Optional. Enter a textual description.
Empty Assembly: select to create an empty assembly. You do not define any appliances or properties for the assembly, but instead select Finish.
Overwrite: If an appliance or assembly with the same name already exists, and it has not been registered, you may overwrite it.
Figure 5-2 Create Assembly Wizard: Name Assembly
Click Next to define appliances in the assembly for introspection.
In the Select Appliance to Introspect window (Figure 5-3), you can define one or more appliances in the new assembly.
Figure 5-3 Create Assembly Wizard: Select Appliances
Add appliances to the assembly by selecting the + icon (Figure 5-4):
Figure 5-4 Defining Appliances in the New Assembly
This displ ��ays the list of appliances that are supported for introspection:
Generic Product
Oracle Coherence*Web (Alias of WLS)
Oracle HTTP Server
Oracle Database
Oracle Forms*Web
Oracle RAC Database
Oracle Reports
Oracle SOA (Alias of WLS)
Oracle Web Cache
Oracle WebLogic Server
Oracle Traffic Director
Oracle Tuxedo
You can name the appliance, specify a local or remote host, and a working directory (this is a directory used during remote introspection to copy configuration files locally for caching purposes).
If you specified a remote host, you must define its connection and authentication parameters.
In the Run As User field you may enter the name of a user on the remote machine to sudo as before executing operations. For example, if you log in with 'User Name' bob and 'Run As User' jill, the introspection process will run as jill, not bob. In that case, bob must do a sudo operation to jill.
After defining parameters for the remote host, select Test Connection to verify that you can create an SSH connection using the supplied credentials to the remote host.
You can select Remote Cleanup to remove the artifacts copied over to the Remote Working Directory once the Introspection is complete.
Click the Extensions button to see a list of included extensions for the selected type (that will automatically get executed).
Figure 5-5 Viewing Extensions for an Appliance
Select Password and enter a password or select Private Key to reference the SSH key to use rather than providing a password. If selecting Private Key, select the browse button and navigate to the location of a private SSH key file on the local machine. The use of a private key file provides added security because no password handling is required by Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder.
In the Configure Properties window (Figure 5-6) you can set the introspection properties for the appliances you included for introspection in the previous window. Required properties are identified with an asterisk next to the property name.
Figure 5-6 Create Assembly Wizard: Configure Properties
To edit a value for a property, select the appliance from the Appliances pane, and select the property from the Introspection Properties pane. Enter a value for the property. See Appendix B, "Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Introspection Plug-ins", for information on introspection properties.
The Capture File Set checkbox is selected by default. This option captures the files from the reference system specified by the file set definition created during introspection. The files are archived into one or more zip (or other raw) files which are stored in the shared area of the catalog. You should only unselect this checkbox if you do not want the file sets captured during introspection because you intend to customize your file sets.
Once you have set values for all required properties for all appliances, click Next (to see a summary) or Finish (to begin introspection without seeing a summary).
The Summary window (Figure 5-7) displays a logical tree view of the appliances you selected for introspection, their hosts, and the introspection properties entered.
Figure 5-7 Create Assembly Wizard: Summary
Click Finish to begin the introspection. A confirmation box appears informing you that the operation is time and resource intensive. Once you select OK to confirm, introspection starts.
You can see the progress of the introspection in the catalog navigator. Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio displays a node for the appliance being introspected. If introspection fails, Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio provides a link to a log for that appliance. See also Appendix D, "Troubleshooting".
The introspection wizard is a standalone interface to allow you to add a single appliance to a new or an existing assembly. To access it, select File > New > Appliance Introspection.
In the Name Appliance window, name your component and decide whether to create as a child of an existing parent assembly, or as a standalone component. Enter the following information:
Appliance Name: Name your appliance; any string is acceptable. The name can be 4 to 40 characters, may not start with a digit, and no spaces or special characters are allowed (underscores are allowed). Assembly and appliance names are not allowed to be localized.
Overwrite: If introspecting at the top level, you can check this box to overwrite any top-level assembly or appliance object, provided that it is not registered. If you are introspecting into an existing assembly, checking this box overwrites only assemblies and appliances inside that assembly.
Parent Assembly: (Optional) Choose a Parent Assembly from the drop-down list or select <no selection> to place the new appliance at the top of the catalog.
Description: Enter an optional description.
Click Next.
In the Identify Host window, you identify the host on which the appliance you want to introspect is running, by entering the following information:
Remote or Local Host: Select Remote Host or Local Host.
If you selected Remote Host, configure the following information:
Host Name: Enter the name of the host that you want to introspect.
Port: Enter the port number for SSH for this host. The default port number is 22.
User Name: Enter the username for the SSH user to log into the remote host. This user must have permissions to access the introspected configuration.
Authentication: Select Password and enter a password or select Private Key to reference the SSH key to use rather than providing a password. If selecting Private Key, select the browse button and navigate to the location of a private SSH key file on the local machine. The use of a private key file provides added security because no password handling is required by Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder.
Run As User: Enter the name of a user on the remote machine to sudo as before executing operations.
Remote Working Directory: Enter the path to a directory on the remote host in which Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder may stage files required for introspection. The files may be reused.
Remote Cleanup: Click this check box to remove the artifacts copied over to the Remote Working Directory once the Introspection is complete.
You cannot perform remote introspection of a database if you cannot log into the database machine with the database installation owner's account. If remote introspection is required, you must enable the account for remote access.
In the Select Appliance Type window, you identify the type of appliance you want to introspect, by entering the following information:
Type: Choose the appliance type you want to introspect from the Type drop-down menu.
Depending on the type of appliance chosen, different sets of properties are displayed. Set the properties for that appliance by selecting the cell for the property and entering a value for the property. Required properties are identified with an asterisk.
Click the Extensions button to see a list of included extensions for the selected type (that will automatically get executed).
The Capture File Set checkbox is selected by default. This option captures the file set definitions generated from introspection, archives the file sets into one or more zip (or other raw) files, and stores the resulting files in the shared area of the catalog. You should only unselect this checkbox if you do not want the file sets captured during introspection because you intend to customize your file sets.
Click Finish.
abctl provides both local and remote introspection capability. For remote introspection, the Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder host must have SSH access to the subject machine.
-name flag is optional.
Here are two examples:
Example 5-2 Introspect Oracle HTTP Server Remotely
$ ./abctl introspectOHS -oracleInstance /path/to/oi –componentName ohs1 –name myOHS -remoteHost myReferenceSystemHost –remoteUser abdemo
Example 5-3 Introspect Oracle WebLogic Server Locally
$ ./abctl introspectWLS -wlsHome /path/to/wls/wlserver_10.3 -domainRoot /path/to/user_projects/domains/basic_domain -adminUser weblogic -name myWLS
For more information see Appendix A, "Command Line Reference", which contains the details of the parameters that can be passed into the command.
Capturing file sets takes the file set definitions generated from introspection, archives these file sets into one or more zip (or other raw) files and stores the resulting files in the shared area of the catalog.
For the capture to succeed, some plug-ins have specific requirements for the reference system's running state. Table 5-2 lists the preconditions for the products supported by Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder.
Table 5-2 Capture Plug-in Requirements
|Introspected Product
|Running State Pre-Condition
Oracle WebLogic Server
No requirement; Oracle WebLogic Server may be up or down.
Oracle Coherence*Web
No requirement; Oracle WebLogic Server may be up or down.
Oracle HTTP Server (OHS)
No requirement; Oracle HTTP Server may be up or down.
Oracle Web Cache
No requirement; Oracle Web Cache may be up or down.
Oracle RDBMS (DB)
For both Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio and abctl, the database must be down when capturing file sets is done as part of introspection.
For Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio, the database must be down in the creating template phase.
Oracle Tuxedo
No requirement; Oracle Tuxedo may be up or down.
The capturing file sets operation is available in the Template Creation Wizard, which is described in Section 5.3.3, "Create Templates for an Appliance or an Assembly".
Configuring Local and Shared File Sets
In the Configure File Set Definitions window, you configure local and shared file sets for appliances (Figure 5-8). The file sets that appear are configured by the introspector plug-in (at this point they are read-only).
You can add file sets. For example, in Oracle HTTP Server there is a
DocumentRoot path, and you may want to capture this file set. The new file set is marked Editable and Sharable.
File Set Details
Configure these parameters for a file set:
Name: Enter a name for the file set.
Root Directory: Enter a root directory.
OS Owner and OS Group: For each file set, a you can specify an OS owner and group. The product makes no guarantees that the owner and/or group is defined in the base image. During deployment, the file set is expanded with the owner and group specified. The owner and groups defaults to "oracle."
Exclusions: For each file set you can specify multiple locations under the root directory that should not be captured. The locations are relative to the root directory. The following patterns are allowed in the exclusions:
a literal path, for example foo/bar
any * in a trailing file/directory name, for example:
The difference between foo/bar and foo/bar/* is that foo/bar removes bar, whereas foo/bar/* removes everything under foo/bar, but not foo/bar itself.
The base image must have the owners and groups defined.
Capture File Set
Creates a directory where you can capture the file set definition in this file set. The file set definition is the set of instructions used to build a file set. Both local and remote file sets can be captured if the file system type allows it. See "File System Type".
Shared File Sets
Editable describes a file set where you can modify any of the File Set Details. Sharable describes a local file set that you can change to a shared file set, and Localizable describes a shared file set that you can change to a local file set.
You can configure each file set as either shared or local. You can use the shuttle buttons to migrate a file set in one direction or the other. If shared, users may or may not decide to capture the file set. In some cases a file set may not be allowed to migrate from local to shared or vice versa. This is defined by the introspector plug-in that created the initial file set and Oracle Assembly Builder Studio follows that setting.
You can also specify mount options for a shared file set. This occurs only in the property inspector view during deployment plan editing.
Figure 5-8 Local and Shared File Sets
File System Type
You can specify the free space size for a given file set (Figure 5-9). Each file set can have a defined free space. This value is set on a file set by file set basis. For local file sets, you can also elect to not capture the file set, and create an empty space on the VM.
Select the file system type. For local file sets, valid choices are:
Can capture a file set
Can define free space
For Shared File Sets, valid choices are:
Can capture a file set
Cannot define free space
Cannot capture a file set
Can define free space
Can capture a file set
Can define free space
Define Free Space for a File Set
Define a free space for the given file set. Select Megabyte, Gigabyte, or Percent for the free space unit, and enter a value.
The free space unit can only be defined as Percent if the file set is captured. A RAW file system type cannot use Percent because RAW can never capture a file set.
Figure 5-9 Defining Free Space for a File Set
In the Review window, you can review the capture file sets decisions you have made, then click Finish.
Progress messages are posted in the message log window. You can open and review the Assembly Status Overview by selecting the Template Creation tab to verify that progress is occurring.
introspect* commands in
abctl currently capture file sets at the end of introspection by default. This can be overridden with a flag to allow separate capture of file sets via the
captureFileSets command.
abctl provides both local and remote file set capture capability. For remote file set capture, the Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder host must have SSH access to the subject machine.
Here are two examples:
Example 5-4 Capture File Sets for Oracle HTTP Server Remotely
$ ./abctl captureFileSets –name myOHS -remoteHost myReferenceSystemHost –remoteUser abdemo
Example 5-5 Capture File Sets for Oracle WebLogic Server Locally
$ ./abctl captureFileSets -name myWLS -force
For more information see Appendix A, "Command Line Reference", which contains the details of the parameters that can be passed into the command along with a sample output of the command.
Template creation generates virtual machine templates that are ready to be deployed into virtualized platforms. In Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder, Oracle VM is the only supported platform. Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder supports Oracle Enterprise Linux guest OS for all appliances.
To create a template, you must provide a system base image that contains the operating system. You may create your own system base image if the sample system base image does not meet your needs.
Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder provides a sample system base image for Oracle Enterprise Linux templates. When creating Oracle Enterprise Linux templates, Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder transparently invokes Oracle VM's
modifyjeos tool to create the virtual machine templates. The tool allows you to modify or customize the base image (for example, adding disk space to the base image, or specifying certain RPMs). Refer to "System Base Images" in Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Installation Guide for details on how to create a custom system base image.
Templates are stored in the Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder instance's catalog directory. Template creation must be done on an Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Host, where Oracle VM's modifyjeos is installed.
Base images are stored in either $AB_INSTANCE, or in $ORACLE_HOME. Here is the order of precedence for base image detection:
You can select either an Oracle VM or Oracle Exalogic target platform. If you select Oracle Exalogic, you must choose a base image which is compatible (that is, has the proper RPMs installed) with the Oracle Exalogic platform. You can also use the wizard to validate a base image for Oracle Exalogic.
This operation allows you to create templates for an assembly by selecting Create Template from the Assembly Node Context Menu, or Catalog > Create Template.
In the Specify Image Location window (Figure 4-x), you select a target platform and configure the base images as follows:
Select either an Oracle VM or Oracle Exalogic target platform. If you select Exalogic, you must choose a base image which is compatible (that is, has the proper RPMs installed) with the Oracle Exalogic platform. This value is meaningful to both the individual appliance templates as well as the assembly archive. An appliance may have both Oracle Exalogic and Oracle VM templates at the same time. However only one assembly archive may exist at any given time.
Specify a location for the base images by selecting the browse icon, navigating, and selecting the base image. If you have placed your base image in one of the default locations you can leave this field as is.
Enter OS Root and VNC passwords.
If you selected an Oracle Exalogic target platform, click Validate Exalogic Image to verify whether the base image has the proper RPMs installed for the Oracle Exalogic platform.
Figure 5-10 Create Template Wizard: Specify Image Location
Click Next to continue.
Refer to Section 5.3.2, "Capture File Sets for an Appliance or an Assembly" for descriptions of capturing file sets in the Create Templates wizard.
The Summary window lists all the templates that will be created after you click Finish. It also shows a warning that creating templates can take some time.
If the assembly appliances have already had a template created, you can recreate the templates. The Confirm Component Template Recreation window identifies appliances that have an associated template that has been already created. You can select those that need to be recreated by placing a check in the Recreate box.
Figure 5-11 Recreating an Appliance Template
Click Next.
In the Confirm Component File Set Definitions window, select whether to use a pre-existing file set if available, or specify a host where the files are located.
Figure 5-12 Confirming Appliance File Set Definitions
Click Next, then click Finish to recreate the templates.
Progress messages are posted in the message log window. You can open and review the Assembly Status Overview by selecting the Template Creation tab to verify that progress is occurring.
You can create an assembly archive for a given assembly when you initiate the create template wizard in the context of a non-atomic assembly. Additionally you have the option of compressing the assembly archive.
When the assembly archive completes successfully, the assembly is locked. At this point you will not be able to make any changes to the assembly without explicitly deleting the assembly archive.
You can explicitly delete an assembly archive by selecting the assembly archive in the structure pane and hitting the delete key, or right-click and select Delete.
Example 5-6 through Example 5-7 are
createTemplate command examples:
Example 5-6 create Oracle VM Guest OS template for Oracle WLS
$ ./abctl createTemplate -name myWLS -platform OVM
Example 5-7 create Oracle VM Guest OS template for OHS
$ ./abctl createTemplate -name myOhs -platform OVM -baseImage /private/baseImage/OVM/OEL/System.img
For more information see Appendix A, "Command Line Reference", which contains the details of the parameters that can be passed into the command.
You can use
abctl to create an assembly archive for the named top-level assembly. This command can only be invoked on a top-level assembly. Additionally, you must have previously templated all the subappliances within the assembly using the
createTemplate command.
Use the
-platform option to specify the platform as Oracle VM or Oracle Exalogic.
Example 5-8 is a
createAssemblyArchive command example:
Example 5-8 Create Assembly Archive
$ ./abctl createAssemblyArchive -name myWlsAssembly -platform OVM -nocompress
For more information see Appendix A, "Command Line Reference", which contains the details of the parameters that can be passed into the command.
This section describes how to edit an assembly, using Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio.
After creating an assembly, you may need to edit the assembly before it can be deployed to create connections, and optionally, to make other changes.
Managing connection configuration includes the connecting of inputs to outputs, setting or changing the property values of inputs and outputs (such as JDBC connection strings), and creating external resource appliances for those outputs that connect to components not deployed as part of deployment of the assembly.
Defining a connection means generally to connect an output to an input and set/modify the properties of the input and output as necessary. The "connect output to input" step can be achieved by either connecting an output of an appliance to an input of another or connecting an output of an appliance to the input of an external resource appliance.
All input/output properties that require values must have values set. All other properties may also need to be set/modified according to the environment that will be in place at deployment time.
Configure Web server port forwarding: select an output on myohs and connect it to a managed server input on the mywls assembly by drawing an arrow between the two.
Specify JDBC connect strings for each JDBC connection: open the JDBC output of an Oracle WebLogic Server assembly by selecting it.
For JDBC connections, you either create external resources or introspect the database, then make the connection between the JDBC output of Oracle WebLogic Server to the external resource or the introspected database appliance.
Each of the JDBC connections has a different description. Use that description to figure out which JDBC database schema to connect each to. For each of the JDBC entries, you can look at the
original-url, and then copy the
hostname and
global-db-name, into mydb.
For example: in
jdbc:oracle:thin:@machine999.example.com:1521/orcl, the
hostname is machine999.example.com, the
port 1521, and the
global-db-name orcl.
Also specify the
global-db-name and
port as properties of the external database resource input, and the host as a property of the database appliance itself.
The port is a property of the external database resource input. The hostname is the only property that belongs to the database external resource itself.
Appliance-specific connection information is described in Appendix B, "Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Introspection Plug-ins"
You may not need to make changes to properties if the values from the reference system are appropriate. If required, make changes using the property inspector.
The property inspector (Figure 5-13) displays the property values. Set the properties as required.
Figure 5-13 Property Inspector
The Structure Pane is populated whenever you select a catalog node. When you select an assembly, the Structure Pane shows the structure of that assembly, including all appliances as well as those appliances' inputs, outputs and network interfaces. Selecting an item on the structure pane populates the property inspector with the properties scoped to that specific selection.
Figure 5-14 Structure Pane
If you have an assembly that contains Oracle HTTP Server/Oracle Web Cache and Oracle WebLogic Server with Enterprise Manager deployed, as part of deployment of Oracle HTTP Server/Oracle Web Cache "opmnctl registerInstance" is called to register that appliance with an Enterprise Manager application hosted in Oracle WebLogic Server. To enable this operation to complete successfully, you must perform the following steps while editing the assembly:
Define connections between Oracle HTTP Server/Oracle Web Cache's EMRegistration and Oracle WebLogic Server.
Use the property inspector to set the Oracle HTTP Server/Oracle Web Cache dependency on Oracle WebLogic Server. You can do this by selecting the Dependency drop-down menu in the General section.
Without this configuration, Enterprise Manager registration will fail because the Admin Server has not been started.
Verify that the Oracle WebLogic Server Admin Server has not been configured to accept only SSL connections. The "opmnctl registerInstance" does not support SSL connection to Oracle WebLogic Server.
If the Oracle HTTP Server configuration file
mod_wl_ohs.conf defines application routing between Oracle HTTP Server and Oracle WebLogic Server, you need to connect Oracle HTTP Server to Oracle WebLogic Server in the editor.
When an assembly is created, a default Vnet is created for the assembly. You can change the name and description of the default Vnet when you create the assembly. Once the assembly is created, you may also create additional Vnets other than the one created by default.
To create a new Vnet right-click the assembly and choose New > Vnet... or select the assembly and right-click the Vnets folder in the Structure Pane and choose New Vnet... from the context menu (Figure 5-15). Enter the name and description of the new Vnet.
Figure 5-15 Create Vnet
You can create physical or virtual network interfaces while editing an assembly. Physical interfaces are physical from the perspective of the vServer's OS stack, but since that OS is running in a vServer, that physical interface is actually a virtual network interface - thus this refers to a virtual network interface on top of another virtual network interface. To create interfaces:
Create a physical network interface by right clicking on an appliance in the assembly editor and selecting Add Network Interface, or by selecting the assembly in the Assembly navigator and right clicking on the appliance or the Network Interfaces folder under an appliance and selecting Add Network Interface.
Create virtual network interfaces by right-clicking on a physical network interface and choosing Add Network Interface. You are prompted for the name and description of the new interface. Set the other properties using the Property Inspector. The result is displayed in the Structure Pane as the child of the physical network interface. Virtual network interfaces exist to model the concept of VLAN.
When configuring an appliance Input you need to specify the network interface and port on which the Input will receive (or listen for) data. You can either select a specific network interface, in which case the Input will only listen for inputs coming from that network interface or you can specify
INADDR_ANY in which case the Input will listen for inputs coming from any network interface configured for the appliance.
INADDR_ANY is the default.
To set the default interface on an appliance: right-click the interface in the Structure Pane and choose Set as Default from the context menu. The default may be either a virtual or a physical interface. Note that virtual interfaces do not appear in the Assembly Editor. They may only be selected in the Structure Pane.
Assemblies and appliances have Vnets and network interfaces. Each network interface may be bound to one and only one Vnet. The deployment plan is used to associate Vnets and network interfaces with physical networks and IP addresses that exist in the deployment environment.
The binding can be changed to a different Vnet (if a different one exists) through the Property Inspector. Each logical network must be resolved at deploy time using the deployment plan (that is, each network will have properties in the deployment plan).
This section describes assembly editing operations you can perform using
Creating Empty Top-level Assemblies
Use the
createAssembly command to create an empty top-level assembly. Example 5-9 shows the
createAssembly command.
Example 5-9 createAssembly Command
$ ./abctl help –command createAssembly $ ./abctl createAssembly -name myAssembly -defaultNetwork intranet
Adding Appliances (or WLS Assemblies) to Top-level Assemblies
Use the
addToAssembly command to add appliances to a top-level assembly. Example 5-10 shows the
addToAssembly command.
Example 5-10 addToAssembly Command
$ ./abctl help –command addToAssembly $ ./abctl addToAssembly -name myAppliance -into myAssembly
Connecting Outputs to Inputs
Use the
connectEndpoints command to creates a new connection between an output and an input. The protocols of the output and input must match, and the owners of the output and input must be part of the same assembly. Example 5-11 shows the
connectEndpoints command.
This section details how you will use Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder Studio or the
abctl command line utility to perform operations related to deployment.
Section 5.4.4, "Registering an Assembly Archive to a Target"
Section 5.4.11, "Unregistering an Assembly Archive from a Target"
Section 5.4.12, "Uploading an Assembly Archive to the Deployer Repository"
Section 5.4.13, "Deleting an Assembly Archive from the Deployer Repository"
This section describes how to define the connection to the Oracle VM or Oracle Exalogic backend endpoints, to provide credentials if required, and add deployment targets in the backend.
Oracle recommends that you configure your target connections for Oracle VM 3 with TCP instead of HTTP protocol.
To configure with TCP, specify a URL of the form "tcp://their-ovm-host:54321".
To configure connection credentials:
For Oracle VM, create the target using the
createTarget command in abctl.
This operation, which can only be performed by the Cloud Admin, defines the connection information, and, depending on the backend type, user credentials for the backend. For Oracle VM, credentials are supplied here.
For Oracle Exalogic, you do not perform the
createTarget command because a single target is preconfigured. Individual users will provide their own credentials in the
addTargetUser step.
Add users to the target using the
addTargetUser abctl command.
Depending on the backend type, this may be a Cloud Admin call or an Application Admin, depending on differences in the security models of the backend systems:
For Oracle VM targets, this an operation that can only be performed by the Cloud Admin, and is used to control what users can access the pool. This is an Cloud Admin operation because the credentials supplied by the Cloud Admin must be protected from general users.
For Oracle Exalogic targets, this is an Application Admin operation and is used to specify Application Admin credentials (in this case, Cloud Admin does not have to give specific access because the backend will be checking the credentials). This is an Application Admin call because the user's credentials must be protected from others, including the Cloud Admin.
Example 5-12 shows how to create a target for Oracle VM:
Example 5-12 Create Target for Oracle VM
./abctl createTarget -name slcTarget_tcp -type ovm -properties ovm.poolName=ab_ovm_30_stand_alone_pool ovm.vmOperationTimeout=3600 ovm.vmmversion=3.0 ovm.user=admin ovm.pwd ovm.url=tcp://example.oracle.com:54321 -connectionName localDeployer
Example 5-13 shows how to add users to a target for Oracle VM:
Example 5-13 Add Users to a Target for Oracle VM
./abctl addTargetUser -user Username -target Targetname
Example 5-14 shows how to add users to a target for Oracle Exalogic, where the
-properties option contains the user's credentials as a property=value pair:
A deployment plan allows you to override property values defined in the metadata of an assembly. The plan is applied when the assembly is deployed. Only top-level assemblies can have deployment plans.
Create a deployment plan:
In the Deployment Plans navigator, right-click an assembly and select New Deployment Plan.
The Create Deployment Plan wizard appears (Figure 5-16).
Figure 5-16 Create Deployment Plan
Enter the name for the deployment plan.
Select the associated assembly from the Assembly drop-down menu.
Click OK. The Deployment Plan editor opens.
The Deployment Plan Editor displays a read-only view of the assembly. This view is useful as an overview and for selecting items so that their property values may be overridden.
When you create a new deployment plan, the Deployment Plan editor opens automatically.
Edit an existing deployment plan:
In the Deployment Plans navigator, right-click the plan and select Open.
Alternatively, in the Deployment Plans navigator you may double-click the plan icon.
Deployment plan editing makes use of both the Structure Pane and the Property Inspector. You should ensure both views are visible.
Open the Structure Pane by selecting View > Structure.
Open the Property Inspector by selecting View > Property Inspector.
To override the properties of an appliance, input, output or other item, you must first select the item.
To select an item in the Deployment Plan editor, click on it.
When populated, the Structure Pane shows additional details of the plan.
Populate the Structure Pane:
In the Deployment Plans navigator, select the plan.
The Structure Pane populates with the assembly structure. To select an item in the populated Structure Pane, click on it.
Selecting any item in the Deployment Plan editor also populates the Structure Pane.
The properties of the selected item are displayed in the Property Inspector.
To override a value:
In the property inspector, type a new value in the field.
A blue bullet is displayed next to overridden values.
To remove an override:
In the Property Inspector, click the downward-pointing arrow (chevron) to the right of the property value.
From the pop-up menu, select Reset to...
The value shown in the Reset to... menu item is always the original value specified in the assembly metadata. The override is removed.
You may override the scalability properties of an appliance. Doing so may change the number of potential appliance instances that can exist when the assembly is deployed. Each of these potential appliance instances may require its own network settings including hostname, IP address, MAC address, and netmask properties. The Property Inspector automatically displays the appropriate number of instance-specific network properties. When the scalability values are changed, the Property Inspector automatically adjusts the number of network properties to match the number of appliances instances that may potentially exist.
To display the network properties of an appliance:
In the Structure pane or Deployment Plan editor, click to select the appliance.
In the Property Inspector, click to open the Network category.
The default-gateway, dns-domains, and dns-servers property values are required unless all network interfaces of the appliance are configured to use DHCP. These values are shared by all instances of the appliance.
The hostname.0 property is required. If the appliance is scalable, the Property Inspector will display an appropriate number of properties (hostname.0, hostname.1, etc.) All values are required.
To display the Deployment Plan properties of a network interface, click on the network interface in the Deployment Plan editor or expand the Network Interfaces folder in the Structure pane and click the network interface within the folder.
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It is useful to be able to specify a proposed human-computer interface formally before building it, particularly if a mockup suitable for testing can be obtained directly from the specification. A specification technique for user interfaces, based on state transition diagrams, is introduced and then demonstrated for a secure message sys-tem application. An interpreter that executes the resulting specification ~s then described. Some problems that arise in specifying a user interface are addressed by particular features of the technique: To reduce the complexity of the developer's task, a user interface is divided into the semantic, syntactic, and lexical levels, and a separate executable specification is provided for each. A process of stepwise refinement of the syntactic specification, leading from an informal specification to an executable one is also presented. Since the state diagram notation is based on a non-deterministic model, constraints necessary to realize the system with a deterministic interpreter are given. Writing a formal specification of the user interface of a computer system before building it permits the interface designer to consider a variety of possible user interfaces and describe them precisely and compactly without actually having to code them. It also permits the appli-cation of human performance models to the specifications to obtain information about the user interfaces they describe before building them [1, 15]. The specifications can be checked for certain undesirable properties of the user interface, such as almost-alike states [14], interactive deadlock [4], and character-level ambiguity [18]. Further benefits accrue if a pro-totype or mockup of the user interface of the proposed system can be constructed directly from the specification. Problems with the pro-posed user interface can then be identified early in the design process, when they are easier to fix. While many prcspective users will f_nd a for-mal specification of a proposed system difficult to understand, they will have much less trouble evaluating a mockup system and identifying deficiencies in its user interface, both through informal demonstrations and formal experi-


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Gerry Dulac from the PPG tweeted on Monday that certain Steelers coaches are interested in Plaxico Burress returning to the team… and are willing to dump ARE to make room. What coaches I ask you? Tomlin? Arians? Come on Gerry help us out here. There's been no column from him following this tweet to expound upon that tweet. Well either way, I still have huge doubts that the Steelers are willing to bring in a player like Burress again. As I have said before, sitting his prison time aside, he still was a player who did not rise up to the expectations and standards of Steelers football. He has too much of a Rand Moss attitude – half assed all around. Once free agency starts (and hopefully soon), we'll see where he ends up. My hope is never in a black & gold uniform.
Hines Ward continues to impress and demonstrate that he truly is not just one hell of a football player, but also one hell of a man. He joins the ranks of Dan Rooney in ambassadorship, becoming the goodwill ambassador to Korea. How many NFL teams can claim that they have this kind of international stature or voice? I hope this works out well for Ward. His second passion next to playing football is giving a voice to those who lack it in the Asian community. Truly paying it forward.
Former Senator Arlen Specter wrote an op-ed on last week in the NY Times about what Congress can do to stop the lockout. Basically, he calls on Congress to threaten the antitrust exemption the league currently has. Without this antitrust exemption, the league would not be able to operate at all in the capacity it currently does. With both sides seemingly talking in a positive direction, I don't think this kind of measure is needed. However, I think it would be prudent for Congress to keep something like this in their back pocket. The up and down roller coaster of this recession and recovery makes a loss of 5 billion dollars (potential revenue losses if no season occurs) across the nation seem incredibly huge.


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KALAMAZOO (WKZO) -- The Kalamazoo City Commission will hold a Public Hearing this evening on their 2013 general fund budget. The 53-milion dollar spending plan is down from last year, as the city has offered early retirement incentives to help reduce the staff by 100, and trim the budget by 6 Million over a 3-year-period.
City Manager Ken Collard says it will result in a staff that won't be able to do some things as quickly as they used to, but will maintain essential services.
He says they have another 4-million dollar crisis looming in the future, due in part to loss in revenue from the Personal Property Tax.That is a problem they have yet to address.


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Jefferson. 22. SD.
Sophekanie<3. Star Wars. KOBE. LAKERS. SNEAKERS.
The journey of being content is never over.
& one day, I will meet Kobe Bryant.
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Air Jordan Retro XI "Concord" - Why the Hype killed the love of the game.
Excuse me for my following rant…
The 2011 Jordan XI Concord release ended many die hard Jordan enthusiasts' passion for sneakers. Many OG heads that been through the Niketalk and good old ISS are slowly getting rid of their Jordans. Why though? Well for many, the continuous blame for low quality materials while at the same time, the increasing the prices.
Second, you have the resellers. Those who say "You can't blame the hustle" are the same ones who complain over and over about resellers. Never before has there been so many online "Big Cartel" shops that want to make an extra buck off a Retro. Several of my sneaker buddies are now resellers whom I used to chat regurlarly in forums. Back when there was absolutely no hype on every Kobe release. Back when the LeBron James signature line had no skittle looking, South Beach colorways. Back when Retro Jordans stayed available online for more than just 10 minutes. There was no twitter, no stupid blog to hype a limited colorway, no corny shoe customizers, no YouTube sneaker videos, nothing. It was a good time to be a sneaker head. Now, it's a hassle just to buy a shoe that you like. Ever since the Concord release, every single Retro Jordan has sold out online and at my local malls. The Jordan 4 Cements, the Jordan 10 "Chicago", and even the Jordan 10 "Stealths"…. ?! REALLY ?! … Yes, I'm aware that most Retro's sell out eventually, but not minutes of release. Especially at a consistent rate.
But probably the biggest upset of them all, was because of the hundreds upon hundreds of early release pairs, also known as the Grey Sneakers (read more about it here via SoleSupremacy). Don't get me wrong, these pre-release sneakers were around long before 2011, but the Concord definitely gave this variant industry a boost in sales and popularity. Many were walking in their icy blue soled Concords before Christmas just so they could avoid the madness. However, little did they know that the very pairs on their feet weren't even inspected by Jordan Brand or Nike. Would they care? Probably not. Would I? Hell yeah. Would you brush your teeth with Colgate Toothpaste knowing that the company didn't approve of it? I wouldn't. I want my shoes straight from retailers knowing that it isn't a Hong Kong variant.
Anyways, my point is that I envy those who started collecting sneakers before me. They didn't have to deal with all this reseller, early release crap. Thankfully, I only plan to buy about six Jordan Retros throughout the year. By the way, if the Jordan Brand decides to retro the AJ XI "Breds" this upcoming Holiday, it's going to be the worse sneaker release yet.
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Air Jordan Retro XI "Concord" - Why the Hype killed the love of the game.
My boy Jefferson speaks the truth.
Air Jordan Retro XI "Concord"
I agree completely with this guy up here
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Raytheon, New York Officials Plan New Level of System Integration
Perimeter intrusion system detection system at four NY-area airports links total system data
Over at command and control, which PANYNJ says will be at a police facility separate from any of the four airports, Dinka explains that operators will be alarmed when a possible intrusion is detected and will then see different types of data coming in on two screens. On the left screen, there will be tabular data on the intruder's whereabouts and characteristics; while the right-hand screen will display video. The system also will alarm according to pre-defined operator rules and priorities, and will differentiate as to the type of alarm, such as from perimeter intrusions, worker access control alerts, loss of communications, low power, and system tampering.
Raytheon already has site surveys underway at all four airports, Dinka tells Air Safety Week. Construction will begin this summer, and individual airports will come on line in phases. By early 2008, there should be a fully operational, four-airport system.
Raytheon's partners in the PANYNJ project include 4D Security Solutions (advanced sensors, among other things), Intergraph [INGR] (command and control and dispatch systems); Mass Electric Construction Co. (general and electrical contractor); AMSEC (communications and electrical system design); and Goshow Architects (command and control room design). (
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Dovizioso and Iannone have stepped up their performance heading Into the race in Aragon.
Current Moto3 championship leader will join premier class next year
Spaniard confirmed as one of two factory riders to compete on new Aprilia machine
The Doctor was unstoppable...
Starting from the front row, Rossi was engaged in a thrilling three-way battle with Jorge Lorenzo and Marc Marquez.
Fantastic battle sees Marquez crash while Lorenzo and Pedrosa seal podium finishes
Crutchlow starts from row 5
Yamaha MotoGP's Jorge Lorenzo first ever premier-class pole position at the Italian circuit.
Movistar Yamaha rider takes top spot ahead of Iannone and Rossi
Lorenzo and Rossi had their wet riding skills tested to the max on the treacherously slippery track.
Iannone competitive despite the crashes.
Both sessions of free practice at Misano today were subject to wet and cool conditions.
Italian manufacturer moves MotoGP plans one year ahead of schedule
Rain causes multiple crashes in both free practice sessions
Nine-time World Champion Valentino Rossi is hungry for a good result at his home race...
Marquez looking to secure 12th season win and put one hand on the Championship
The British GP will now take place at Donington.
Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi fought epic battles today in the British GP
The Italian finishes fifth after battling for third until the flag. Crutchlow twelfth
The battle between Marc Marquez and Jorge Lorenzo lasted almost the whole race...
Championship leader takes victory ahead of teammates Lorenzo and Rossi
The Pramac Racing Team had to settle for starting from tenth position on the grid for tomorrow's race.
Valentino Rossi take sixth on the second row.
22-year-old could miss rest of the season.
Marc Marquez's best time was just a couple of tenths shy of his own outright lap record at Silverstone.
Repsol Honda rider bounces back from small crash this morning and takes pole
The sessions proved to be challenging for Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi due to the tyres provided.
The cool temperatures and wind created a challenging situation for the riders today.
Championship leader sets the pace ahead of Bradl and Dovizioso
Championship momentum hangs in the balance as riders prepare for round 12
The Ducati Team riders have arrived in the UK after taking part in a two-day test at Misano.
Pramac Racing Team is ready for the twelfth round.
Jorge Lorenzo's second place keeps him in fourth position in the world standings.
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My child has attended South for one year and began her second year today. We adore the staff and faculty. Mr. Radebaugh, the principal, gives an energetic upbeat feel to the campus. South's main office and tasks are well organized and the campus is always clean and maintained. The teachers we've had the opportunity to know are so positive and encouraging. When I'm volunteering at South, I'm impressed with the many employees who make it a point to say thank you and hello, remembering my name and my child's. The reason I regretfully give this school 4 stars is because they do NOT have an art program. My child was in kindergarten last year and never brought home a painting, but did bring home a couple paper plate crafts. I really hope they will implement an art class. Students repeat a "specials" class each week, due to there only being 4 "specials".... South, please make a 5th special for the week and let it be ART! Art can teach children that in complex forms of problem solving, purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Artistic learning requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of their work as it unfolds.
my son is in second grade at south, the staff here is as good as it gets. I rate south with 5 stars.
My son just finished up at south, he's now heading to middle school. He finished out the year with a final report card of 4 A's and one B. He finished at the top of his class in the FCAT scores for this past year. It's hand's down the best elementary in okeechobee. It's not just up to the teacher's to help your child learn, you have to take the time with your children, to help them where they struggle, to encourage them when it's tough. There are some thing's I didn't agree with at the school, but overall I'm proud that my kid was an Eagle!
My daughter was a student at South and I was extremly happy with it. There music program is outstanding- the student/teacher ratio is good. Parents seem to be very involved in pto. I was very happy with the education she received there.
I find this school to be execellent in most areas. I fell the administration really care about the students. The teachers have all been great with the kids and there is always a positive atmosphere in the classrooms. I am a sub and after being at other schools in the area, find this to be the best school in the county.
Overall, this school is making A ratings per state guidlines. In my personal experience, I find the teachers to lack skills when communicating with parents. I say this from my own experience and observing the experience of other parents. Teachers seem to carry with them an air of superiority which put me quite off guard. I was raised in Okeechobee and my children have attended other public schools out of state. I thought the adjustment would be easy for them when we moved back to Okeechobee. I remembered the friendliness of the various schools I attended here and thought the same of Okeechobee, in general. Well, I haven't found that same friendliness at South. I have been patient but intend to pull my child out of this school next year. Additionally~ my experience with the principal: Ms. Lundy was negative. She initially gave a better impression but time has shown otheerwise.
My children will be attending South Elementary for the first time in the Fall of 2004. From what I have researched on this school, it is the best in this area. And I am very much looking forward to the new school year to come.
Even though we are not through our 1st 9 weeks of school, I am very proud of the school that my daughter attends. It is very hard to send a child off for the first time to kindergarten, South Elementary staff made it easier for our family. I also have a 2 yr. old that will attend this 'A' school.
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In short: Some work still to doIn full: I agree with much of the what the previous reviewer said - the pasta party was way over-priced - just use one of the many restaurants on the waterfront instead. This was the first marathon I have run with a carton of milk at the end (not for everyone, it seems - there weren't many left) - this was a nice touch, ad the medal was nice, but still some work to do to match what's advertised with what is delivered on the day.Date of review: August 31, 2014
In short: What's to criticise?!In full: All the boxes were ticked for this one - the same organisers as the North Lincs Half, which has such a good reputation. The hills were certainly tough, and there were plenty of them - right to the end!I've done 15 marathons, but this was quite possibly the hardest race I've ever done - but the bacon butty at the end was worth the hills! Date of review: August 30, 2014
In short: Flat and friendlyIn full: Very convenient with a school for HQ - well set up with refreshments, bag drop, toilets, showers (cold!) and parking. The route was on quiet country roads and the promenade. Although this was a small scale event, the support was lovely - residents clapping from their gardens, and marshals galore - very capable and very encouraging. With a two lap route and an HQ near the beach and the town this was very spectator friendly as well.A nice medal and non-white technical T shirt. The goody bag was pants, but I enjoyed this race a lot and would definitely recommend it. Date of review: October 13, 2012
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Sea Kayaker team paddler Helen Wilson recounts her experience at the Traditional Paddlers' Gathering last week.
Last week I headed to Minnesota for the Traditional Paddlers Gathering. It was my fourth year mentoring at this fun event, and it was great to be back.
Lots of people worked on rolls in the warm lake.
The warm weather made it easy to get wet.
The event takes place at a communal camp in Lake Carlos State Park. The camp is very comfortable and right on the water.
There were lots of skin-on-frame qajaqs to try, including the Qajaq USA fleet.
Danielle demonstrated Greenland Rope Gymnastics.
The Gathering is a Qajaq USA event put on by the Inland Sea Kayakers. I find this group of paddlers to be fun, friendly and welcoming. Laughter could be heard throughout the full four day event.
Lots of people tried the ropes during the interactive demonstration.
Tony prepares himself for the harpoon competition.
There were lots of classes taking place, but for my part I mentored rolling, skin-on-frame rescues and a class on teaching rolling. I also presented a slideshow on the 2013 Nordic Tour that Mark and I did this summer. There were lots of local mentors, and in the spirit of a Qajaq USA event, everyone had something to contribute.
Many people participated in the harpoon throwing competition.
Close… but no seal for dinner this time.
One thing that really makes this event stand out is its harpoon competition. Jeff Bjorgo runs it, and every year the rules change. Participants wait in anticipation for Jeff to arrive and to hear the "new rules." This year lots of people brought their own harpoons to the event, and throughout each day participants could be seen practicing their technique on the styrofoam seals that bobbed in the lake.
Watching the harpoons was a fun thing to do while taking a break from on-water activities.
All in all, the weekend was spectacular. Over the past few years I've gotten to know many of the Minnesota paddlers, and they've become good friends. Special thanks to Michelle, Jeff, Tony and Renee for taking such good care of me.
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Chattahoochee 3, Johns Creek 2: In the Class AAAAAA semifinals, Chattahoochee defeated neighborhood-rival Johns Creek for the third time this season, 25-12, 16-25, 26-24, 23-25, 15-13. The host Cougars trailed 13-11 in the final set, but clinched the match after a block by Lexi Kingree ignited a 4-point Chattahoochee rally.
"It's a huge win over a great team," said Chattahoochee coach Jennie Blevins. "It shows what you can do if you push yourself hard enough."
Setter Haley Templeton led Chattahoochee with 29 kills, 36 assists 23 digs while Reina Terry has 16 kills and Claudia Coco had 35 digs.
Walton 3, South Forsyth 0: Top-seeded Walton swept visiting South Forsyth 25-15, 25-15, 25-9. Sophomore Celeste Fitzgerald led the Raiders with 45 assists and Jessica Sloan posted a team-high 19 kills. Walton freshman Dalaney Hans and Lindsay Seagraves each served three aces and Kate Schwartz recorded 12 digs.
McIntosh 3, Northgate 0: Host McIntosh cruised into the finals with a 25-14, 25-13, 25-14 win. Rhegan Mitchell and Abbi Schelkopf led the Chiefs with 12 kills each. Defensively, Kassandra Robert paced McIntosh with 14 digs. Senior Rhana Mitchell added 13 digs.
Sequoyah 3, Dunwoody 0: Sequoyah won its 30th straight match with a 25-19, 25-16, 25-14 sweep. Dunwoody, in its first semifinals since 2005, jumped out to an early lead in the first set but the host Chiefs came back strong behind middle hitter Lauren Hartman.
Columbus 3, Sandy Creek 2: Host Columbus topped defending champion Sandy Creek 25-19, 25-23, 22-25, 20-25, 15-8. Brianna Gogins had 17 kills, Ki'Anna Duncan tallied 20 digs, Madison Fleming recorded 40 assists and Shardonee Hayes had five blocks for Columbus.
Marist 3, River Ridge 0: Host Marist swept River Ridge 25-11, 25-20, 25-7. In the third game, Marist's Leila King won 11 points on her serve with five aces. Bailey Weiland led the War Eagles with 14 kills and freshman Alena Cashdan tallied 12 kills. Hannah Weiland added a game-high 16 assists.
Blessed Trinity 3, Woodward Academy 1: Senior Molly McAlvany, a University of Tampa commitment, led host Blessed Trinity with 19 kills and 12 digs and keyed an 8-point run in the second set at the service line. The Titians trailed 21-14 before McAlvany began her service rally. Morgan Stallcup added eight kills and three blocks while Maggie Ricks had 26 assists for Blessed Trinity.
St. Pius 3, Buford 1: Senior outside hitter Leah Hardeman, a Coastal Carolina commitment, led the host Golden Lions with 26 kills, including the last two kills of the game. Buford lost in spite of freshman Gabby Curry's 13 kills and 21 digs. St. Pius won 22-25, 25-17, 25-18, 28-26.
Wesleyan 3, Lovett 1: The host Wolves came back from a 20-18 deficit in the final set to defeat defending state champion Lovett 25-18, 19-25, 25-23, 25-23. Lauren Frerking had 12 kills, Hannah Hoskin had 31 digs and Kendra Koetter tallied 38 assists for Wesleyan.
Westminster 3, Jefferson 0: Host Westminster swept Jefferson (25-13, 25-9, 25-15) after Wildcats junior Mackenzie Shannon recorded her ninth kill of the match on game-point. Teammate Kerrie Green contributed with 10 digs and eight kills and setter Ellie Hartman finished with 20 assists and seven aces.
Hebron Christian 3, Savannah Christian 2: Visiting Savannah Christian took a 2-sets-to-1 lead before the Raiders won 26-24, 22-25, 21-25, 25-16, 15-13. Eden Murray posted a game-high 20 kills and Bridgette Oduro added 14 kills for the Lions. Anna Katherine Wilson added 47 assists.
Holy Innocents' 3, Eagle's Landing Christian 2: The host Golden Bears ended the match on a kill by Julia Wright in Holy Innocents' 25-17, 17-25, 27-25, 18-25, 18-16 win. Sarah Porter had 53 assists, Haley Collins had 26 kills and Sarah Joe had 20 digs to lead the Golden Bears.
October 30th, 2013
9:33 pm
Good Effort Buford!! Congratulations to SPX & BT…
October 31st, 2013
7:38 am
ELCA / Holy Innocents ….. What a great game ( match ) …. BOTH teams played like Champions! So proud of the ELCA girls for working so hard this year and making a great run. We wish Holy Innocents the best in the State Championship game …. great team and first class fans.
October 31st, 2013
6:37 pm
Great job Marist making it to the AAAA Final! Syd Leimbach with 10 kills and 6 blocks in the semi-final win, way to go TEAM!
November 1st, 2013
7:08 am
Congrats to all the teams, especially those moving on. Reading the article, it makes me think that some of these schools are more liberal than others in their volleyball statistics — makes me wonder if there are some other volleyball mommas out there helping their daughters "improve" their resumes!
November 1st, 2013
9:38 pm
True, VB Momma — especially when you read a defensive player has a large number of kills — who reports these statistics? Regardless, good luck to all in the finals!
November 2nd, 2013
9:15 pm
Thanks to Swamp Lizard for such a good spirited message. The ELCA team showed heart and class in its battle with HIES, as did your fans. Your program deserves all the good that comes its way.