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In order to provide access to the testbed and provide also with some services that are needed to support it, the NMaaS provides among others with VPN access, a reservation service based on schedule and a bastion from which the resources are accessible. The picture below is a simplistic representation on your access to the testbed TODO
VPN Access
So once you are granted administratively access to the testbed, a vpn configuration file is provided to you. The vpn is based on openvpn and any Operating service can be used to connect to it. In particular if you are working from a linux system you can use the following command to connect to it and you should get some output similar to the one you can see below
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After logging in, the following screen where the resources available are presented and links to reservation page are shown where the switches are available. In the figure only 3 devices are shown because the 4th is under maintenance.
Once reservation button is clicked, reservation page is shown where starting date (Begin) and ending date (End) can be set. You can set there a title for this precise reservation and a description, please, use proper titles because these may be used for giving you some support if problems appear. At that point pressing the "Change" button you can add more resources to your reservation.
By pressing "Create" your reservation is created and can be changed at any moment later until the day before the reservation starts. Remember that making reservations for the present day is not possible in the present reservation mechanism.
The reservation is done and it appears in your list.
Alternatively there is a drag and drop reservation mechanism accessible via Schedule → Bookings . This approach simplifies the search of available devices when no particular device is required but rather simply any device.
