TABS - The Terminal Allocation and Booking System

This document describes the workstation booking system developed at, and used by, the School of Computer Science and Engineering, at the University of New South Wales.

• Introduction
• Concepts
• Bookings Database
• Laboratory Status and Management
• Policy
• Configuration
• Interaction with other systems
• Tools and Daemons
• The full scoop on tokens and attributes
• Setting it up

  --- The Detailed Node Listing --- Introduction

• Whats in a name?
• What the user sees.
• The Administrators perspective

  What the user sees.

• Making a booking
• Claiming a booking
• Being evicted.

  The Administrators perspective

• The Database
• Lab Management

  Concepts

• Workstation
• Host
• Lab
• HostGroup
• Period
• Attribute
• Token
• Class
• Full and Free Periods
• Open and Closed Times
• Allocations
• Evictions and Reservations

  Bookings Database

• Databases
• Changes
• BOOK_DATABASE
• BOOK_MAINT
• Creating new replicas -- BOOK_COPYDB
• Removing replicas

  Changes

• Types of Changes

  Laboratory Status and Management

• Table of Status Information
• BOOK_STATUS
• BOOK_MANAGER

  BOOK_STATUS

• Status Table
• Replica List

  BOOK_MANAGER

• Table Passing
• Allocation
• Eviction

  Configuration

• Attributes
• Implications

  Interaction with other systems

• Login interaction
• User Interface Interaction
• YP/NIS interaction
• Interaction with users

  Interaction with users

• Notification of allocations
• Discovery of late arrivals.

  Tools and Daemons

• dbadmin
• smadmin
• booking
• user
• token - the program
• attr
• conf
• bkhg/bkhost/bklb/bkws
• lab - the program
• bookterm
• bogin
• book
• messaged
• saveauth
• sendmess
• book_login
• book_logout
• book_database and book_maint
• book_status and book_manager

  booking

• Listing Bookings
• Changing the status of bookings

  user

• Reporting on users
• Creating classes and allotting tokens
• Renaming classes

  token

• Creating a token
• Modifying a token
• Listing tokens
• Discarding Tokens

  bkhg, bkhost, bklb, bkws

• bkhg
• bkhost/bklb
• bkws

  book

• Interactive Use
• Batch Use

  Setting it up

• Installing files.
• Creating the database
• Creating a database replica --- OPTIONAL
• Starting a status server
• Adding hostgroups and hosts
• Creating attributes and implications
• Adding workstations
• Creating tokens
• Creating classes
• Allocating tokens to classes
• Installing book_login and book_logout
• Enabling the system