The Topology Management Tool (ToMaTo) is a topology-centric network testbed, giving researchers the possibility to run their software in specifically designed virtual networking topologies. ToMaTo utilizes Proxmox virtualization technology (OpenVZ and KVM), Tinc VPN and Dummynet ink emulation to organize virtual machines in virtual topologies.

Homepage: http://www.tomato-lab.org

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The hostmanager is the software that has to run on every node. To start it, run ./server.py in the hostmanager directory

The backend is the central management of ToMaTo. It consists of multiple services, each running in their own Docker container. The webfrontend is one client of ToMaTo which provides a web interface to ToMaTo which can be used in the browser. It also runs in its own Docker container.

You can use the tomato-ctl tool in the docker/run directory. Use ./tomato-ctl.py --help in order to learn more.
In order to run the docker containers, you have to make the images by running make in the docker/build directory.

The default user is admin with the password changeme.

You can access the ToMaTo webfrontend via your web browser, and manage users from there.

You can also access an API shell by using the tomato tool in the cli directory. Run ./tomato.py --help to learn more about how to connect. See the API Tutorial for more information about the API syntax.

Testes are available in the test directory. Run ./automatic_testing.sh to automatically set up a new ToMaTo instance, register the hosts from testhosts.json and the templates from testtemplates.json, run the tests, and stop the ToMaTo test instance.