Joining a Federation with a peer node
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The peer node requires federated info encrypted information from the admin node. This information is short lived and must be used to join the federation as soon as possible.
Now we will take a look at the steps required to join an existing federation.
Click on the drop-down menu of Create Project and select Join Federation:
Next, the following consecutive windows will appear, detailing all the pertinent information required to join an existing federation, greater detail on the information required follows the figures below:
Project Name
This is the name of the local project.
Project Type
This applies to the local project, declare whether the local project is CPU, GPU, Partition, etc.
Project Encoder
Optional parameter specifying the encoder to be used.
Federation Info
The Encrypted Federation Info, provided by the admin of the federation.
Federation Info Password
The Password, provided by the admin of the federation.
AWS Region
The region in which your federation will reside.
AWS S3 Bucket
The name of the S3 Bucket to receive routine updates from the federation.
AWS Account
This is the ID number of your AWS account.
AWS S3 Access Key
The AWS S3 Access Key information.
AWS S3 Secret Key
The AWS S3 Secret key information.
Next, we load data to the local project joining the existing federation. Right click on your local project, and select Add Data:
Once you click on Add Data, next you select the datasource and data you wish to load:
The window below, allows you to review a sample of the data being loaded to ensure the data is valid:
Now that your data is loaded, time to Learn the data, in other words we are scanning the local project data to ascertain various descriptive statistics about the data.
Right click on the dataset and a drop-down menu will appear, select Learn:
Next, a window will appear that allows you to verify that your data attributes have been assigned the correct variable type, and allow for changes if necessary:
Next, we can click on Exploration and look at the select descriptive statistics of our local data:
Finally, we are ready to join the federation and share our local project with the federation. Double click on Federation and the following screen will appear. Here we click Start Pulse, and this starts the periodic sharing of information with other peers in the federation, in this example it is every Minute as this is what was set by the federation admin, however this frequency can be customized (i.e. Minute(s), Hour(s), Day(s)).
Federation Info
The Encrypted Federation Info, provided by the admin of the federation.
Federation Info Password
The Password, provided by the admin of the federation.
Project Name
The name given to the local project.
NATS Hosts
Location of the NATS server
The remainder of the steps (i.e. adding data, learning, and pulsing) for a NATS federation are identical to that of an AWS Federation.
Subsequent sections of this guide will cover the above sequence of steps for and respectively.
