diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/clusters/local/conf/asterix.conf b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/clusters/local/conf/asterix.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..659b48e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/clusters/local/conf/asterix.conf
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+output_dir=/tmp/asterix_output/
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/clusters/local/local.xml b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/clusters/local/local.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d397bcd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/clusters/local/local.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<cluster xmlns="cluster">
+  <name>local</name>
+  <workingDir>
+    <dir>/tmp/asterix-installer</dir>
+    <NFS>true</NFS>
+  </workingDir>
+  <logdir>/tmp/asterix/logs</logdir>
+  <iodevices>/tmp</iodevices>
+  <store>asterix/storage</store>
+  <java_home></java_home>
+  <java_opts>-Xmx1024m</java_opts>
+  <master-node>
+    <id>master</id>
+    <client-ip>127.0.0.1</client-ip>
+    <cluster-ip>127.0.0.1</cluster-ip>
+  </master-node>
+  <node>
+    <id>node1</id>
+    <cluster-ip>127.0.0.1</cluster-ip>
+  </node>
+</cluster>
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/conf/log4j.properties b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/conf/log4j.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fedf941
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/conf/log4j.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+log4j.rootLogger=info, A1
+
+log4j.appender.A1=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
+log4j.appender.A1.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+# Print the date in ISO 8601 format
+log4j.appender.A1.layout.ConversionPattern=%-p: %m%n
+
+log4j.logger.edu.uci.ics.asterix.event.management=error
+log4j.logger.org.apache.zookeeper=error
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/conf/managix-conf.xml b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/conf/managix-conf.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..10a62a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/conf/managix-conf.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<configuration xmlns="installer">
+  <backup>
+    <hdfs>
+      <version>0.20.2</version>
+      <url></url>
+      <backupDir></backupDir>
+    </hdfs>
+  </backup>
+  <zookeeper>
+    <homeDir>/tmp/zookeeper</homeDir>
+    <clientPort>2900</clientPort>
+    <servers>
+      <server>127.0.0.1</server>
+    </servers>
+  </zookeeper>
+</configuration>
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/hadoop-0.20.2/bin/hadoop b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/hadoop-0.20.2/bin/hadoop
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..683e95d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/hadoop-0.20.2/bin/hadoop
@@ -0,0 +1,290 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+
+# The Hadoop command script
+#
+# Environment Variables
+#
+#   JAVA_HOME        The java implementation to use.  Overrides JAVA_HOME.
+#
+#   HADOOP_CLASSPATH Extra Java CLASSPATH entries.
+#
+#   HADOOP_HEAPSIZE  The maximum amount of heap to use, in MB. 
+#                    Default is 1000.
+#
+#   HADOOP_OPTS      Extra Java runtime options.
+#   
+#   HADOOP_NAMENODE_OPTS       These options are added to HADOOP_OPTS 
+#   HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS         when the respective command is run.
+#   HADOOP_{COMMAND}_OPTS etc  HADOOP_JT_OPTS applies to JobTracker 
+#                              for e.g.  HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS applies to 
+#                              more than one command (fs, dfs, fsck, 
+#                              dfsadmin etc)  
+#
+#   HADOOP_CONF_DIR  Alternate conf dir. Default is ${HADOOP_HOME}/conf.
+#
+#   HADOOP_ROOT_LOGGER The root appender. Default is INFO,console
+#
+
+bin=`dirname "$0"`
+bin=`cd "$bin"; pwd`
+
+. "$bin"/hadoop-config.sh
+
+cygwin=false
+case "`uname`" in
+CYGWIN*) cygwin=true;;
+esac
+
+# if no args specified, show usage
+if [ $# = 0 ]; then
+  echo "Usage: hadoop [--config confdir] COMMAND"
+  echo "where COMMAND is one of:"
+  echo "  namenode -format     format the DFS filesystem"
+  echo "  secondarynamenode    run the DFS secondary namenode"
+  echo "  namenode             run the DFS namenode"
+  echo "  datanode             run a DFS datanode"
+  echo "  dfsadmin             run a DFS admin client"
+  echo "  mradmin              run a Map-Reduce admin client"
+  echo "  fsck                 run a DFS filesystem checking utility"
+  echo "  fs                   run a generic filesystem user client"
+  echo "  balancer             run a cluster balancing utility"
+  echo "  jobtracker           run the MapReduce job Tracker node" 
+  echo "  pipes                run a Pipes job"
+  echo "  tasktracker          run a MapReduce task Tracker node" 
+  echo "  job                  manipulate MapReduce jobs"
+  echo "  queue                get information regarding JobQueues" 
+  echo "  version              print the version"
+  echo "  jar <jar>            run a jar file"
+  echo "  distcp <srcurl> <desturl> copy file or directories recursively"
+  echo "  archive -archiveName NAME <src>* <dest> create a hadoop archive"
+  echo "  daemonlog            get/set the log level for each daemon"
+  echo " or"
+  echo "  CLASSNAME            run the class named CLASSNAME"
+  echo "Most commands print help when invoked w/o parameters."
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# get arguments
+COMMAND=$1
+shift
+
+if [ -f "${HADOOP_CONF_DIR}/hadoop-env.sh" ]; then
+  . "${HADOOP_CONF_DIR}/hadoop-env.sh"
+fi
+
+# some Java parameters
+if [ "$JAVA_HOME" != "" ]; then
+  #echo "run java in $JAVA_HOME"
+  JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_HOME
+fi
+  
+if [ "$JAVA_HOME" = "" ]; then
+  echo "Error: JAVA_HOME is not set."
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+JAVA=$JAVA_HOME/bin/java
+JAVA_HEAP_MAX=-Xmx1000m 
+
+# check envvars which might override default args
+if [ "$HADOOP_HEAPSIZE" != "" ]; then
+  #echo "run with heapsize $HADOOP_HEAPSIZE"
+  JAVA_HEAP_MAX="-Xmx""$HADOOP_HEAPSIZE""m"
+  #echo $JAVA_HEAP_MAX
+fi
+
+# CLASSPATH initially contains $HADOOP_CONF_DIR
+CLASSPATH=${HADOOP_CONF_DIR}
+CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar
+
+# for developers, add Hadoop classes to CLASSPATH
+if [ -d "$HADOOP_HOME/build/classes" ]; then
+  CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:$HADOOP_HOME/build/classes
+fi
+if [ -d "$HADOOP_HOME/build/webapps" ]; then
+  CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:$HADOOP_HOME/build
+fi
+if [ -d "$HADOOP_HOME/build/test/classes" ]; then
+  CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:$HADOOP_HOME/build/test/classes
+fi
+if [ -d "$HADOOP_HOME/build/tools" ]; then
+  CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:$HADOOP_HOME/build/tools
+fi
+
+# so that filenames w/ spaces are handled correctly in loops below
+IFS=
+
+# for releases, add core hadoop jar & webapps to CLASSPATH
+if [ -d "$HADOOP_HOME/webapps" ]; then
+  CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:$HADOOP_HOME
+fi
+for f in $HADOOP_HOME/hadoop-*-core.jar; do
+  CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:$f;
+done
+
+# add libs to CLASSPATH
+for f in $HADOOP_HOME/lib/*.jar; do
+  CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:$f;
+done
+
+if [ -d "$HADOOP_HOME/build/ivy/lib/Hadoop/common" ]; then
+for f in $HADOOP_HOME/build/ivy/lib/Hadoop/common/*.jar; do
+  CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:$f;
+done
+fi
+
+for f in $HADOOP_HOME/lib/jsp-2.1/*.jar; do
+  CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:$f;
+done
+
+for f in $HADOOP_HOME/hadoop-*-tools.jar; do
+  TOOL_PATH=${TOOL_PATH}:$f;
+done
+for f in $HADOOP_HOME/build/hadoop-*-tools.jar; do
+  TOOL_PATH=${TOOL_PATH}:$f;
+done
+
+# add user-specified CLASSPATH last
+if [ "$HADOOP_CLASSPATH" != "" ]; then
+  CLASSPATH=${HADOOP_CLASSPATH}:${CLASSPATH}
+fi
+
+# default log directory & file
+if [ "$HADOOP_LOG_DIR" = "" ]; then
+  HADOOP_LOG_DIR="$HADOOP_HOME/logs"
+fi
+if [ "$HADOOP_LOGFILE" = "" ]; then
+  HADOOP_LOGFILE='hadoop.log'
+fi
+
+# default policy file for service-level authorization
+if [ "$HADOOP_POLICYFILE" = "" ]; then
+  HADOOP_POLICYFILE="hadoop-policy.xml"
+fi
+
+# restore ordinary behaviour
+unset IFS
+
+# figure out which class to run
+if [ "$COMMAND" = "namenode" ] ; then
+  CLASS='org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode'
+  HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS $HADOOP_NAMENODE_OPTS"
+elif [ "$COMMAND" = "secondarynamenode" ] ; then
+  CLASS='org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.SecondaryNameNode'
+  HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS $HADOOP_SECONDARYNAMENODE_OPTS"
+elif [ "$COMMAND" = "datanode" ] ; then
+  CLASS='org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.DataNode'
+  HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS $HADOOP_DATANODE_OPTS"
+elif [ "$COMMAND" = "fs" ] ; then
+  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.fs.FsShell
+  HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS $HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS"
+elif [ "$COMMAND" = "dfs" ] ; then
+  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.fs.FsShell
+  HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS $HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS"
+elif [ "$COMMAND" = "dfsadmin" ] ; then
+  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.tools.DFSAdmin
+  HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS $HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS"
+elif [ "$COMMAND" = "mradmin" ] ; then
+  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.mapred.tools.MRAdmin
+  HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS $HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS"
+elif [ "$COMMAND" = "fsck" ] ; then
+  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.tools.DFSck
+  HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS $HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS"
+elif [ "$COMMAND" = "balancer" ] ; then
+  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.balancer.Balancer
+  HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS $HADOOP_BALANCER_OPTS"
+elif [ "$COMMAND" = "jobtracker" ] ; then
+  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker
+  HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS $HADOOP_JOBTRACKER_OPTS"
+elif [ "$COMMAND" = "tasktracker" ] ; then
+  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker
+  HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS $HADOOP_TASKTRACKER_OPTS"
+elif [ "$COMMAND" = "job" ] ; then
+  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient
+elif [ "$COMMAND" = "queue" ] ; then
+  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobQueueClient
+elif [ "$COMMAND" = "pipes" ] ; then
+  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.mapred.pipes.Submitter
+  HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS $HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS"
+elif [ "$COMMAND" = "version" ] ; then
+  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.util.VersionInfo
+  HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS $HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS"
+elif [ "$COMMAND" = "jar" ] ; then
+  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar
+elif [ "$COMMAND" = "distcp" ] ; then
+  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.tools.DistCp
+  CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:${TOOL_PATH}
+  HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS $HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS"
+elif [ "$COMMAND" = "daemonlog" ] ; then
+  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.log.LogLevel
+  HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS $HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS"
+elif [ "$COMMAND" = "archive" ] ; then
+  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.tools.HadoopArchives
+  CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:${TOOL_PATH}
+  HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS $HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS"
+elif [ "$COMMAND" = "sampler" ] ; then
+  CLASS=org.apache.hadoop.mapred.lib.InputSampler
+  HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS $HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS"
+else
+  CLASS=$COMMAND
+fi
+
+# cygwin path translation
+if $cygwin; then
+  CLASSPATH=`cygpath -p -w "$CLASSPATH"`
+  HADOOP_HOME=`cygpath -w "$HADOOP_HOME"`
+  HADOOP_LOG_DIR=`cygpath -w "$HADOOP_LOG_DIR"`
+  TOOL_PATH=`cygpath -p -w "$TOOL_PATH"`
+fi
+# setup 'java.library.path' for native-hadoop code if necessary
+JAVA_LIBRARY_PATH=''
+if [ -d "${HADOOP_HOME}/build/native" -o -d "${HADOOP_HOME}/lib/native" ]; then
+  JAVA_PLATFORM=`CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH} ${JAVA} -Xmx32m org.apache.hadoop.util.PlatformName | sed -e "s/ /_/g"`
+  
+  if [ -d "$HADOOP_HOME/build/native" ]; then
+    JAVA_LIBRARY_PATH=${HADOOP_HOME}/build/native/${JAVA_PLATFORM}/lib
+  fi
+  
+  if [ -d "${HADOOP_HOME}/lib/native" ]; then
+    if [ "x$JAVA_LIBRARY_PATH" != "x" ]; then
+      JAVA_LIBRARY_PATH=${JAVA_LIBRARY_PATH}:${HADOOP_HOME}/lib/native/${JAVA_PLATFORM}
+    else
+      JAVA_LIBRARY_PATH=${HADOOP_HOME}/lib/native/${JAVA_PLATFORM}
+    fi
+  fi
+fi
+
+# cygwin path translation
+if $cygwin; then
+  JAVA_LIBRARY_PATH=`cygpath -p "$JAVA_LIBRARY_PATH"`
+fi
+
+HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS -Dhadoop.log.dir=$HADOOP_LOG_DIR"
+HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS -Dhadoop.log.file=$HADOOP_LOGFILE"
+HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS -Dhadoop.home.dir=$HADOOP_HOME"
+HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS -Dhadoop.id.str=$HADOOP_IDENT_STRING"
+HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS -Dhadoop.root.logger=${HADOOP_ROOT_LOGGER:-INFO,console}"
+if [ "x$JAVA_LIBRARY_PATH" != "x" ]; then
+  HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS -Djava.library.path=$JAVA_LIBRARY_PATH"
+fi  
+HADOOP_OPTS="$HADOOP_OPTS -Dhadoop.policy.file=$HADOOP_POLICYFILE"
+
+# run it
+#echo "exec "$JAVA" $JAVA_HEAP_MAX $HADOOP_OPTS -classpath "$CLASSPATH" $CLASS "$@""
+exec "$JAVA" $JAVA_HEAP_MAX $HADOOP_OPTS -classpath "$CLASSPATH" $CLASS "$@"
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/hadoop-0.20.2/bin/hadoop-config.sh b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/hadoop-0.20.2/bin/hadoop-config.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..1f9d52d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/hadoop-0.20.2/bin/hadoop-config.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# included in all the hadoop scripts with source command
+# should not be executable directly
+# also should not be passed any arguments, since we need original $*
+
+# resolve links - $0 may be a softlink
+
+this="$0"
+while [ -h "$this" ]; do
+  ls=`ls -ld "$this"`
+  link=`expr "$ls" : '.*-> \(.*\)$'`
+  if expr "$link" : '.*/.*' > /dev/null; then
+    this="$link"
+  else
+    this=`dirname "$this"`/"$link"
+  fi
+done
+
+# convert relative path to absolute path
+bin=`dirname "$this"`
+script=`basename "$this"`
+bin=`cd "$bin"; pwd`
+this="$bin/$script"
+
+# the root of the Hadoop installation
+export HADOOP_HOME=`dirname "$this"`/..
+
+#check to see if the conf dir is given as an optional argument
+if [ $# -gt 1 ]
+then
+    if [ "--config" = "$1" ]
+	  then
+	      shift
+	      confdir=$1
+	      shift
+	      HADOOP_CONF_DIR=$confdir
+    fi
+fi
+ 
+# Allow alternate conf dir location.
+HADOOP_CONF_DIR="${HADOOP_CONF_DIR:-$HADOOP_HOME/conf}"
+
+#check to see it is specified whether to use the slaves or the
+# masters file
+if [ $# -gt 1 ]
+then
+    if [ "--hosts" = "$1" ]
+    then
+        shift
+        slavesfile=$1
+        shift
+        export HADOOP_SLAVES="${HADOOP_CONF_DIR}/$slavesfile"
+    fi
+fi
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/hadoop-0.20.2/conf/hadoop-env.sh b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/hadoop-0.20.2/conf/hadoop-env.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e9396a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/hadoop-0.20.2/conf/hadoop-env.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+# Set Hadoop-specific environment variables here.
+
+# The only required environment variable is JAVA_HOME.  All others are
+# optional.  When running a distributed configuration it is best to
+# set JAVA_HOME in this file, so that it is correctly defined on
+# remote nodes.
+
+# The java implementation to use.  Required.
+# export JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_HOME
+
+# Extra Java CLASSPATH elements.  Optional.
+# export HADOOP_CLASSPATH=
+
+# The maximum amount of heap to use, in MB. Default is 1000.
+# export HADOOP_HEAPSIZE=2000
+
+# Extra Java runtime options.  Empty by default.
+# export HADOOP_OPTS=-server
+
+# Command specific options appended to HADOOP_OPTS when specified
+export HADOOP_NAMENODE_OPTS="-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote $HADOOP_NAMENODE_OPTS"
+export HADOOP_SECONDARYNAMENODE_OPTS="-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote $HADOOP_SECONDARYNAMENODE_OPTS"
+export HADOOP_DATANODE_OPTS="-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote $HADOOP_DATANODE_OPTS"
+export HADOOP_BALANCER_OPTS="-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote $HADOOP_BALANCER_OPTS"
+export HADOOP_JOBTRACKER_OPTS="-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote $HADOOP_JOBTRACKER_OPTS"
+# export HADOOP_TASKTRACKER_OPTS=
+# The following applies to multiple commands (fs, dfs, fsck, distcp etc)
+# export HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS
+
+# Extra ssh options.  Empty by default.
+# export HADOOP_SSH_OPTS="-o ConnectTimeout=1 -o SendEnv=HADOOP_CONF_DIR"
+
+# Where log files are stored.  $HADOOP_HOME/logs by default.
+# export HADOOP_LOG_DIR=${HADOOP_HOME}/logs
+
+# File naming remote slave hosts.  $HADOOP_HOME/conf/slaves by default.
+# export HADOOP_SLAVES=${HADOOP_HOME}/conf/slaves
+
+# host:path where hadoop code should be rsync'd from.  Unset by default.
+# export HADOOP_MASTER=master:/home/$USER/src/hadoop
+
+# Seconds to sleep between slave commands.  Unset by default.  This
+# can be useful in large clusters, where, e.g., slave rsyncs can
+# otherwise arrive faster than the master can service them.
+# export HADOOP_SLAVE_SLEEP=0.1
+
+# The directory where pid files are stored. /tmp by default.
+# export HADOOP_PID_DIR=/var/hadoop/pids
+
+# A string representing this instance of hadoop. $USER by default.
+# export HADOOP_IDENT_STRING=$USER
+
+# The scheduling priority for daemon processes.  See 'man nice'.
+# export HADOOP_NICENESS=10
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/schema/installer-conf.xsd b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/schema/installer-conf.xsd
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c21fc5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/schema/installer-conf.xsd
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
+<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:mg="installer" targetNamespace="installer" elementFormDefault="qualified">
+
+<!-- definition of simple types --> 
+<xs:element name="asterix_home" type="xs:string"/>
+<xs:element name="hyracks_home" type="xs:string"/>
+<xs:element name="hdfsurl" type="xs:string"/>
+<xs:element name="server" type="xs:string"/>
+<xs:element name="clientPort" type="xs:integer"/>
+<xs:element name="homeDir" type="xs:string"/>
+<xs:element name="version" type="xs:string"/>
+<xs:element name="url" type="xs:string"/>
+<xs:element name="backupDir" type="xs:string"/>
+<xs:element name="java_home" type="xs:string"/>
+
+<!-- definition of complex elements -->
+<xs:element name="hdfs">
+  <xs:complexType>
+    <xs:sequence>
+      <xs:element ref="mg:version"/>
+      <xs:element ref="mg:url"/>
+    </xs:sequence>
+  </xs:complexType>
+</xs:element>
+
+<xs:element name="backup">
+  <xs:complexType>
+    <xs:sequence>
+      <xs:element ref="mg:hdfs" minOccurs="0"/> 
+      <xs:element ref="mg:backupDir"/>
+    </xs:sequence>
+  </xs:complexType>
+</xs:element>
+
+<xs:element name="zookeeper">
+  <xs:complexType>
+    <xs:sequence>
+      <xs:element ref="mg:homeDir"/>
+      <xs:element ref="mg:clientPort"/>
+      <xs:element ref="mg:servers"/>
+    </xs:sequence>
+  </xs:complexType>
+</xs:element>
+
+<xs:element name="servers">
+  <xs:complexType>
+    <xs:sequence>
+      <xs:element ref="mg:java_home"/>
+      <xs:element ref="mg:server" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
+    </xs:sequence>
+  </xs:complexType>
+</xs:element>
+
+<xs:element name="configuration">
+  <xs:complexType>
+    <xs:sequence>
+      <xs:element ref="mg:backup" minOccurs="0"/>
+      <xs:element ref="mg:asterix_home" minOccurs="0"/>
+      <xs:element ref="mg:hyracks_home" minOccurs="0"/>
+      <xs:element ref="mg:hdfsurl" minOccurs="0"/>
+      <xs:element ref="mg:zookeeper"/>
+    </xs:sequence>
+  </xs:complexType>
+</xs:element>
+
+</xs:schema>     
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/schema/jaxb-bindings.xjb b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/schema/jaxb-bindings.xjb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b5982e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/schema/jaxb-bindings.xjb
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+<jxb:bindings version="1.0"
+xmlns:jxb="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb"
+xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
+
+<jxb:globalBindings>
+  <jxb:serializable uid="1"/>
+</jxb:globalBindings>
+
+</jxb:bindings>
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/scripts/managix b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/scripts/managix
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..cd0794e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/scripts/managix
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+if [ -z $MANAGIX_HOME ] 
+ then
+   echo "MANAGIX_HOME is not defined"
+   exit 1
+fi
+
+VERSION=0.0.4-SNAPSHOT
+
+for jar in `ls $MANAGIX_HOME/lib/*.jar`
+  do 
+  if [ -z $MANAGIX_CLASSPATH ] 
+  then 
+    MANAGIX_CLASSPATH=$jar 
+  else
+    MANAGIX_CLASSPATH=$MANAGIX_CLASSPATH:$jar 
+  fi
+done
+
+MANAGIX_CLASSPATH=$MANAGIX_CLASSPATH:$MANAGIX_HOME/conf/log4j.properties
+java $JAVA_OPTS -Dlog4j.configuration=file:$MANAGIX_HOME/conf/log4j.properties -cp $MANAGIX_CLASSPATH edu.uci.ics.asterix.installer.driver.InstallerDriver $@
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/scripts/verify.sh b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/scripts/verify.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..cac8189
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/scripts/verify.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+INSTANCE_NAME=$1
+MASTER_NODE=$2
+shift 2
+numargs=$#
+for ((i=1 ; i <= numargs ; i=i+2))
+do
+ host=$1
+ nc_id=$2
+ INFO=$(ssh $host "ps -ef | grep nc_join | grep -v grep | grep -v ssh| grep $nc_id" | head -n 1 )
+ PARENT_ID=`echo  $INFO | cut -d " "  -f2`
+ PID_INFO=$(ssh $host "ps -ef |  grep asterix | grep -v grep | grep -v nc_join |  grep $PARENT_ID") 
+ PID=`echo $PID_INFO | cut -d " " -f2`
+ echo "NC:$host:$nc_id:$PID"
+ shift 2
+done
+
+CC_PARENT_ID_INFO=$(ssh $MASTER_NODE "ps -ef  | grep asterix | grep cc_start | grep -v ssh")
+CC_PARENT_ID=`echo $CC_PARENT_ID_INFO | tr -s " " | cut -d " " -f2` 
+CC_ID_INFO=$(ssh $MASTER_NODE "ps -ef | grep asterix | grep $CC_PARENT_ID | grep -v bash")
+CC_ID=`echo $CC_ID_INFO |  tr -s " " | cut -d " " -f2`
+echo "CC:$MASTER_NODE:N/A:$CC_ID"
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/zookeeper/start_zk.sh b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/zookeeper/start_zk.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..68ced54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/zookeeper/start_zk.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+ZK_HOME=$1
+ZK_ID=$2
+JAVA_HOME=$3
+mkdir $ZK_HOME/data
+echo $2 > $ZK_HOME/data/myid
+CLASSPATH=$ZK_HOME/lib/zookeeper-3.4.5.jar:$ZK_HOME/lib/log4j-1.2.15.jar:$ZK_HOME/lib/slf4j-api-1.6.1.jar:$ZK_HOME/conf:$ZK_HOME/conf/log4j.properties
+ZK_CONF=$ZK_HOME/zk.cfg
+export JAVA_OPTS="-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8400,server=y,suspend=n"
+$JAVA_HOME/bin/java $JAVA_OPTS -Dlog4j.configuration="file:$ZK_HOME/conf/log4j.properties" -cp $CLASSPATH org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeerMain $ZK_CONF
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/zookeeper/stop_zk b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/zookeeper/stop_zk
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..9bef86e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/zookeeper/stop_zk
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+ZK_HOME=$1
+shift 1
+for zk_host in  $@
+do
+  ssh $zk_host "kill -15 `jps | grep QuorumPeerMain | cut -d " "  -f1`" &
+done
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/zookeeper/zk.init b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/zookeeper/zk.init
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..8ef6f5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/zookeeper/zk.init
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+ZK_HOME=$1
+SERVER_JAVA_HOME=$2
+shift 2
+cd $MANAGIX_HOME/.installer/zookeeper
+tar cf zk.pkg.tar *
+zk_server_id=1
+for zk_host in  $@
+do
+  ssh $zk_host "mkdir -p $ZK_HOME"
+  scp ./zk.pkg.tar $zk_host:$ZK_HOME/
+  ssh $zk_host "cd $ZK_HOME && tar xf $ZK_HOME/zk.pkg.tar && chmod +x $ZK_HOME/bin/start_zk.sh"
+  ssh $zk_host "$ZK_HOME/bin/start_zk.sh $ZK_HOME $zk_server_id $SERVER_JAVA_HOME" &
+  zk_server_id=`expr $zk_server_id + 1`	
+done