perfsonar development work

["Jeff W. Boote" <>]

Nicolas Simar wrote:
> So what could be the process?
>
> 1) Currently Szymon is gathering the information about the counters that 
> are monitored by the NRENs. (ST)
> 2) Identify what information can identically retrieved across multiple 
> platform. (ST)
> 3) From that list, we should ask the PERT what counter they would need 
> access to (even if it is currently retrieved by all the NRENs who 
> answered) (GC)
> 4) Once we got the answer, go for the implementation (RL)
>
> Should we add an additional step between three and four to get a 
> validation from the NOCs (via your NOCs and via the APM mailing list)?
>
> Let me know if this is a suitable approach and the time consideration we 
> would have.

The internet2 SNMP MA that we are currently beta-testing supports:

ifInOctets/ifOutOctets (HC versions are preferred if they are available)
ifInErrors/ifOutErrors
ifInDiscards/ifOutDiscards

I would prefer to see these more 'standard' OID's used instead of things from 
the enterprise mibs... They require less specific configuration. But, if there 
are other OID's people want, we can add them to our service easy enough.

We intend to have several instances of this MA up within about 2 weeks in 
support of a demo at the Jt Techs conference in 2 weeks. Once that is over, we 
will be announcing the production service for the Internet2 network.

jeff