Quick Install Guide

Cougaar Security Services

Adaptive security services for the Cougaar platform

This quick setup guide explains how to install the Secure PING society, which is a secure version of the PING society. This sample society runs on one single host.

The Secure PING society includes the following agents:

¨ AgentA, which sends “PING” messages to AgentB.

¨ AgentB

¨ Certificate Authority

¨ Policy Manager

¨ Monitoring and Response Manager

¨ Key escrow Manager

 

The sample PING society runs on two Nodes, ROOT-CA-NODE and NodeA.

 

Downloading and running a secure PING society

1. Download and install COUGAAR SE overlay from
             http://cougaar.org/frs/?group_id=17

2. Download the security overlay and save the file under $COUGAAR_INSTALL_PATH
             http://cougaar.org/frs/?group_id=55

3. Unzip the security overlay ZIP file into $COUGAAR_INSTALL_PATH
             cd $COUGAAR_INSTALL_PATH
             unzip –o security-overlay-B11.4.1.zip

4. cd $COUGAAR_INSTALL_PATH/configs/ping/society_config

5. On Windows:

¨ Launch NodeA.bat and ROOT-CA-NODE.bat

6. On UNIX:

¨ Launch NodeA.sh and ROOT-CA-NODE.sh

 

Many other societies can be configured. For more information about setting up a secure society, read the administrator’s guide.