The Merkato Desktop is the window into which you download one or more Merkato agents.
To download an agent The program that interacts with the rest of Merkato on behalf of buyers and sellers. Buyers can acquire bandwidth by configuring their agents to offer the price they are willing to pay for a range of available quantity, or use their agent to request a quote for a fixed-price bandwidth reservation. Sellers configure their agents with a quantity of bandwidth for sale and a minimum price they are willing to accept for that quantity., follow these steps:
The Download Agent window appears.
2. Enter the username and password for the desired agent.
By default, this is the same as the username
and password you used to access the Desktop interface from the initial
login; the fields are populated with this information. You may specify
another valid username and password to download another agent.
If there are Garage A server from which buyer and seller agents can bid when they are not actively bidding on a user's PC desktop. The garage is generally installed on the Merkato server, providing maximum performance and reliability. choices on the pull-down list that indicates both spot and reservation marketplaces, select the spot garage (to participate in the Merkato auction) or the reservation garage (to reserve bandwidth The amount of data transmitted or received per unit of time. When we refer to acquiring or selling bandwidth, we mean the amount of information that can be sent over a connection at one time, at the allowed speed, without packet loss or excessive delay. Bandwidth is measured in bits-per-second.). Click Download.
If you have a single generic choice in the Garage field, your Merkato administrator may have given you distinct usernames and passwords for separate markets. In this case, make sure that the username and password correspond to the market you want to participate in. Then click Download.
The Agent window appears, as shown below.
