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An example

Suppose you wish to set up a Mingle cluster consisting of two hosts: area51.cmcl.cs.cmu.edu (area51 in short) and grassynoll.cmcl.cs.cmu.edu (grassyknoll in short). In both hosts, there will be one Mingle server running at port number 7018. You would like to configure the host area51 to be the master server. Your local user name at host area51 is abovik and your local user name at host grassyknoll is gbovik. Your preferred Mingle ID is mbovik, and you wish to cache RSA keys for one day.

First, you log in to area51, and modify the following parameters in the configure file:

MinglePort = 7018
IsMaster = 1
ClusterHosts = "LOCAL", "grassyknoll"
UserMode = 1
PublicTTL = 24
PrivateTTL = 24

Then, start the Mingle server at area51:

[abovik@area51]$mingle -c mingle.config &
Mingle server 0.1
Local ip: 128.2.220.239  local port: 7018
Start accepting requests now...

And perform the Mingle single sign-on and Mingle init:

[abovik@area51]$mingle signon mbovik
Select your Mingle password: ********
Reenter password: ********
Success: Sign-on successfully.

[abovik@area51]$mingle init mbovik
Please enter your password: ********
Success: Mingle init successfully.

[abovik@area51]$mingle display
Mingle ID     = mbovik
Local user ID = abovik

Next, you log in to grassyknoll, and modify the following parameters in the configure file there:

MinglePort = 7018
IsMaster = 0
MasterHost = area51
UserMode = 1
PublicTTL = 24
PrivateTTL = 24

Start the Mingle server at grassyknoll:

[gbovik@grassyknoll]$mingle -c mingle.config &
Mingle server 0.1
Local ip: 128.2.220.241  local port: 7018
Start accepting requests now...

Finally, perform Mingle init at grassyknoll:

[gbovik@grassyknoll]$mingle init mbovik
Please enter your password: ********
Success: Mingle init successfully.

[gbovik@grassyknoll]$mingle display
Mingle ID     = mbovik
Local user ID = gbovik

From now on, you are done with the initial set up, you can start submitting requests from either area51 or grassyknoll as you would like.