1 - System information tutorial 1 - create a new profile for the systemwide information:

- Click on 'new profile' (top center screen)

- name your profile “system information”

- select the newly created profile (top center screen - select profile box)

2 - Add relevant modules to the profile

- switch to the 'Modules' tab

- click on 'add new modules' (bottom left)

- Select multiple modules (OSX: command-click; Windows: Control click)

as illustrated on the right

3 - Run a ‘snapshot’ and see the results

- click on 'Snapshot' button (bottom left)

- wait for the snapshot to complete

- Open the ‘environment information’ tab

- click on ‘expand tree’

At this point, the extracted information will be shown, as in the screenshot

below. Please note that multiple extractions will store different snapshots.

4 - Where is the data stored?

- Open the PET/PET_data folder

- 3 folders contain the logs, current configuration (including templates, profiles), and the

extracted metadata

- All files are plain text files, in JSON format

- There is ongoing work to bring this data into standard schema (using the LRM that Pericles is

developing and other standard ontologies).