SYSTEM PREREQUISITES
- Computer platform capable of running a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and possessing resources of memory and storage that can accommodate required volume of data
- Java Virtual Machine, version 1.3 or later

SOFTWARE INSTALLATION
- Download the desired version of the DataTurbine installation package from here:
http://code.google.com/p/dataturbine/
- run the installer, which copies files to a specified filesystem location

SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION
- Define the environment variable RBNB_HOME to refer to the root of the filesystem location into which DataTurbine has been installed. Some examples of doing this at the system level are:
- Windows:
start->control panel->system->advanced->environment variables
choose to define RBNB_HOME at the system level
- Linux:
place a file called "rbnb_home" into /etc/profile.d that contains:
export RBNB_HOME='path_to_rbnb'

SOFTWARE VERIFICATION
- "Black Box" verification of a real-time data stream can be achieved by generating a data stream and then viewing this stream with a third-party data viewer. A convenient source of data can be generated with a program that is provided in the DataTurbine installation:
${RBNB_HOME}/bin/source.jar
Running this program will provide a GUI panel that can be use to generate different periodic waveforms.
- Do "File->Open Server" to connect to the DataTurbine server to be verified.
- Verify this real-time stream with a third-party client called RDV, which can be downloaded here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/rdv/
- Do "File->Connect"; CHANGE the port to 3333
- Double-click channels on the left-hand list to open time series displays
- Put RDV in real-time mode to verify streaming of wave-forms