perfsonar development work

[Roland Karch <>]

Hi Nicolas,

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 09:55:52AM +0100, Nicolas Simar wrote:
> Hmmm, we MUST have a way of triggering BWCTL on-demand tests for the NOC 
> and PERT for the MDM Pilot.

The plugin as I wrote it back then does provide such a way. As already
described in other correspondence, it currently has open security issues
which can only be taken care of properly with AA services installed and
AA support in PerfsonarUI.

The other outstanding issue with the plugin itself is that the GUI is
not as good yet as I'd like it to be. So, it does not provide a
graphical visualization of the results, but only a text based output.
Some reorganization of the GUI would also be nice to have, in order to
integrate the look and feel of the plugin into how other PerfsonarUI
plugins work. None of these issues however do mean that functionality
for starting tests itself is missing.

> Otherwise, what is the point in deploying the BWCTL MPs for the Pilot if 
> the NOC and PERT cannot use it. The Pilot is the most important thing 
> that is happening to perfSONAR. It is the first step towards deploying 
> the service in operation and trying to get a larger audience using it on 
> a regular basis. So it si priority #1 for JRA1 to get everything sorted 
> out for it to be a success. (I understand you are working on a SA3 issue).

My current work subject is indeed SA3. It was already delayed once in
favour of getting the first version of the plugin ready.

> Backup solution might be to have the former page back on line.

I don't see what benefit that would bring compared to the current state
of the PerfsonarUI plugin. But yes, it would be a possibility if some
major bug is found there that can't be fixed easily.

Greetings,
Roland
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