perfsonar development work

[Loukik Kudarimoti <>]

Roman Lapacz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just tested perfsonar-bundle-2.0-RC1.tar.gz and my impression is 
> very positive.
Glad to hear that
> 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 have done this now
> - I would execute test ant target without '-q' parameter. Using this 
> parameter a user does not see where response test files are located.
This was already the case. Was it not clear or do we have a typo somewhere?
> - 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)
Done.

thanks for your feedback.
> 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