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Welcome to the Shadow wiki!

The wiki contains important information about installing and using Shadow, and analyzing the results it produces. For details about Shadow's design, including its plug-in architecture and discrete-event engine, please visit the design page on the Shadow website.

NOTE - this wiki is a work in progress! Your patience is appreciated :)

Getting Started

1. Shadow Setup

   • Preparing your machine
     dependencies, downloading, building, and installing Shadow and its plug-ins, system configs and limits
     -or-
   • Preparing an EC2 Instance
     getting started with our pre-configured AMI

2. Running Shadow
   topology and hosts XML files, running with shadow, shadow-bin, and scallion, built-in example experiments

3. Analyzing results
   the log file, parsing and plotting results

4. Frequently asked questions

Advanced Hacking

1. Developer Notes

2. XML Topology Format

3. Documentation for the built-in plug-ins

   • Using filetransfer
   • Using browser
   • Using torrent
   • Using scallion

4. Writing your own plug-in for Shadow