Federation Management Tool
The Federation Management Tool (FMT) is designed
to help you manage a federation execution and participating federates.
Managing a federation execution is a complex task. There can be many
thousands
of federates participating and you must be able to understand where
each
one is in time, maintain the necessary degree of synchronization, save
federation status so that a simulation can be resumed at a given point,
and many other tasks. The FMT is the tool you need to stay on top of
your
simulation.
FMT 2.1 was released in September, 2000. Another
minor release in early March 2001 contained an enhanced
publish/subscribe
interface. A major release in July 2003
features a plug-in
interface for displaying
FOM-specific data, as
well as support for the RTI 1516 standard.
Web page contents:
FMT Features
Federation information you can view includes:
- Federation name
- Local time
- Federation time
- Rate at which simulation is progressing
- Current status of the federation
- Whether or not any saves have occurred.
Federate information you can view includes the following:
- Time since last advance
- Whether a federate is constrained or regulating
- Publication information about a federate
- Subscription information about a federate
- Total number of:
- Objects owned
- Objects updated
- Objects reflected
- Updates sent
- Interactions sent
- Interactions reflected
- Specific federate information about a particular object
At the federation level, you can:
- Schedule saves and restores
- Request object updates
- Advance federate time
At the federate level, you can:
- Set MOM report periods
- Turn service reporting and exception logging on and off
- Alter a federate's subscription and publication of both objects and interactions
- Enable a federate to be time constrained and time regulated
- Enable asynchronous delivery of receive order messages
- Specify lookahead time
- Modify ownership status of an object and delete an object instance
- Cause a federate to resign from the federation
- Mimic the federate's report of a saves, restores, and of reaching a synchronization point
- Advance a federate to the next time or next event
The current version of FMT features the following improvements over FMT 2.0:
- Support for MAK RTI 2.0, DMSO RTI
1.3NGv3, and Pitch 1.3 RTI
- Support for Pitch 1516 RTI.
- Support for Red Hat Linux
- New Plug-in interface
- Improved Federate Attributes and Interactions panels
- Publish and subscribe information for inherited attributes
- Fixes bug where inherited attributes were not shown
- Improved interface for Status Message dialog
- Better interface for (un)publish and (un)subscribe selections
- General GUI improvements
- Accessibility/keyboard controls
- User can set RTI tick rate
- User-friendly installation helps identify possible configuration problems
Software
You can download the FMT software from the DMSO
Software Distribution Center. Or, you can download the latest
release from here:
FMT 2.3 - Windows Version
FMT 2.3 - Unix Version
Documentation
The FMT has a user's guide that is available in
PDF format. Download
User's
Guide.
MAK has published two papers at SISO SIW about FMT:
- Nelson, Rolf H., A Next-Generation Federation Management Tool: Using the Management Object Model (MOM) and FOM-specific Data to Monitor an HLA Federation. ( Presentation )
- Fullford, Deborah Ann, and Darren Wetzel, A Federation Management Tool: Using the Management Object Model (MOM) to Manage, Control, and Monitor a Federation
Help Desk
Technical support for the FMT is available via
email
from MÄK Technologies at fmt_help@mak.com.