perfsonar development work

[Roman Lapacz <>]

Fausto Vetter wrote:
> Hi,
Hi

> I have done too. I used to install MA RRD for testing. It should be 
> clear that the version of RRDtool 1.2.x, so, why not test it to see if 
> is these versions. The reason is because it needs the rrd.h, and 
> earlier do not have and it is needed to rrdjtool. 

I debian-based linux distros rrd.h is included in librrd2-dev package.

Roman


> I used the install basic first and later the advanced. Messages for 
> default should be verbose. Other thing, on the testing part, why not 
> print the messages, so the users don't need to open the file, once the 
> user is willing to see if everything is fine. Other thing is about the 
> server.xml need to have the host info. why not test if the user fill 
> this info and do not let go until it is not filled, once it is important.
>
> Well, it is it. As a feedback, beside these things, it is pretty good.
>
> Fausto
>
> Roman Lapacz wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just tested perfsonar-bundle-2.0-RC1.tar.gz and my impression is 
> > very positive. I've got few comments:
> >
> > - Some time ago I mentioned about problem with setting 
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH for RRD MA (see below). It should be stressed that 
> > running Tomcat and setting the variable manually in this case (use of 
> > bundle script) is very important.
> >
> > - I would execute test ant target without '-q' parameter. Using this 
> > parameter a user does not see where response test files are located.
> >
> > - I would put the information in the installation manual of the 
> > bundle that wget is prerequisite (usually it is present in the system 
> > but it's better to be sure that a user is aware of it)
> >
> >
> > Roman
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Loukik Kudarimoti wrote:
> >
> > > Roman,
> > >
> > > Thanks for highlighting this. We hope to make it clear in the 
> > > installation manual (and FAQs) that LD_LIBRARY_PATH value should be 
> > > set manually (and ideally as an environment variable or copy the .so 
> > > files into the standard LD_LIBRARY PATH) and tomcat restarted after 
> > > that.
> > >
> > > Doing this seems to be the best solution so far because we can't 
> > > expect the users to make use of our scripts to start tomcat 
> > > everytime (for example, if a workstation reboots and tomcat needs to 
> > > be restarted manually, we should expect the administrator to not use 
> > > our scripts to start tomcat).
> > >
> > > Loukik.
> > >
> > > ps: if we still have problems being reported because of missing 
> > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH, maybe we can investigate a robust solution - don't 
> > > know..lets wait for the users' experience.
> > >
> > >
> > > Roman Lapacz wrote:
> > >
> > > > Does this problem exist in the bundle? I skimmed the perl script 
> > > > and didn't find the solution of it. Just letting you know about 
> > > > possible problem in the release.
> > > >
> > > > Roman
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -------- Original Message --------
> > > > Subject:     [Fwd: [pS-dev] perfsonar: r2208 - in 
> > > > trunk/perfsonar/contrib: . ant-bundle]
> > > > Date:     Fri, 09 Mar 2007 16:27:47 +0100
> > > > From:     Roman Lapacz 
> > > > <>
> > > > To:     Guilherme Fernandes 
> > > > <>
> > > > CC:     Loukik Kudarimoti 
> > > > <>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi Guilherme,
> > > >
> > > > I've created simple Ant script to check how Ant might be used for 
> > > > scripts like the bundle. Testing it I came across with one issue 
> > > > and I wonder how did you overcome it in your perl script.
> > > > My script first installed RRD MA with Tomcat and run Tomcat 
> > > > automatically. Then it installed SQL MA without downloading Tomcat 
> > > > because it was done for RRD MA. I restarted Tomcat
> > > > as the installation script asked me and then I found out that 
> > > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH disappeared for RRD MA (it wasn't set up manually 
> > > > but dynamically by RRD MA installation script). So RRD MA will not 
> > > > provide any data from rrd files in such situation. It would be fine 
> > > > if LD_LIBRARY_PATH was set manually.
> > > >
> > > > Roman
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -------- Original Message --------
> > > > Subject:     [pS-dev] perfsonar: r2208 - in 
> > > > trunk/perfsonar/contrib: . ant-bundle
> > > > Date:     Fri, 9 Mar 2007 09:57:46 -0500
> > > > From:     
> > > >
> > > > Reply-To:     
> > > >
> > > > To:     
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Author: roman
> > > > Date: 2007-03-09 09:57:45 -0500 (Fri, 09 Mar 2007)
> > > > New Revision: 2208
> > > >
> > > > Added:
> > > >  trunk/perfsonar/contrib/ant-bundle/
> > > >  trunk/perfsonar/contrib/ant-bundle/ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar
> > > >  trunk/perfsonar/contrib/ant-bundle/build-bundle.xml
> > > >  trunk/perfsonar/contrib/ant-bundle/service-locations.properties
> > > > Log:
> > > >
> > > > This is the simple bundle Ant script. The offcial one for release 
> > > > 2.0 will be written in perl. This script is just a try to see how 
> > > > it might be implemented using Ant.
> > > >
> > > > The script is simple. It downloads tar files, extracts them and 
> > > > calls main service installation targets (pre-install, configure, 
> > > > deploy).
> > > >
> > > > The list of tar files (services) is located in 
> > > > service-locations.properties file.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Added: trunk/perfsonar/contrib/ant-bundle/ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Property changes on: 
> > > > trunk/perfsonar/contrib/ant-bundle/ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar
> > > > ___________________________________________________________________
> > > > Name: svn:mime-type
> > > >  + application/octet-stream
> > > >
> > > > Added: trunk/perfsonar/contrib/ant-bundle/build-bundle.xml
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Property changes on: 
> > > > trunk/perfsonar/contrib/ant-bundle/build-bundle.xml
> > > > ___________________________________________________________________
> > > > Name: svn:keywords
> > > >  + Author Date Id Revision
> > > > Name: svn:eol-style
> > > >  + native
> > > >
> > > > Added: trunk/perfsonar/contrib/ant-bundle/service-locations.properties