So you have Aware Server installed, and now you want to create your own little kingdom.  A place where you can hoard all the machines you can find.  Its easy.

First, you will need to run the Aware Runtime Management Tool.  It can be found in the

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Gridgistics\Aware\Runtime\AwareLocalRuntimeTools.exe

Run the exe and you should see the following screen.

The Aware Local Runtime Tools, as it suggests, consists of many different tools to help diagnose and certify the runtime environments.  For today's exercise, we will concentrate on create a new environment.  Once you click on the "environments" icon on the left, the right will display a list of all of the environments that already exist.  To create a new one simply click the "new" link below the list of environments.

The above screen will be displayed where you can change any one of its listed properties.

Name -- the name of your new environment

Direct Uri -- the location of the service registry

Locator Address -- multicast address used for locating services

locator port -- port used for locating services

Notification Address -- multicast address used for notifications

Notification Port -- port used for notifications

Force direct connect -- instead of using discovery, force the use of the specific URI

Ignore Isolation Mode -- when checked, allows the environment to interact with other machines.  If left unchecked, messages from other machines will be ignored, hence your environment will be isolated from everyone else.

In our case, I will just enter a new name and change my ports to 3020 and 3021 respectively, then click ok.  The new environment is now created.  Before we go through the steps to switch to that environment, you need to make sure you create the groups for it (so that you can manage it) and make sure you add the account for which the Aware Services run as is added to those new groups.  If your new environment name is "Stage" then you will need to create 3 new groups:

1. Aware Stage Management
2. Aware Stage Deployment
3. Aware Stage Diagnostics

Now that the groups exist, and we added the account to those groups, we can switch our local machine to use that environment.  To do so:

1. start the Aware Server Enterprise Manager
2. go to the "Servers" tab at the top.
3. Click the "Manage All Servers" in the top tool bar

You should now see the following screen.

If other machines on your network are running Aware (server or just service hosts) they should appear on the left hand side.  To switch environments, just select the machine, and then select a environment from the "other environments" drop down list.  In that list you should see our newly created environment.

For my exercise, I'm going to select my new environment "Rhys" and then the "Server Role" of "Core", then click the "switch to" button.  Environment Changed.  Notice my environment name is now "Rhys".

Now this is where it get's fun.  We can now take over, meaning, I can move machines into MY environment so I can control them.  Simply click on another machine, then just as we did earlier, select the environment, and then role, and then click "switch to".  Take one machine.

Or two.

Or Three. 

Now, close the Manage Machine Environments screen, and then click on the "Manage Another Environment" in the tool bar.  Select your new environment that you just switched too, then select the "Services" tab.  You should see all of the machines you just moved to your environment ready to be used.

Enjoy your newly found power.