perfsonar development work

[Loukik Kudarimoti <>]

Joe, Fausto, all

The current perfSONAR bundle contains the Command Line MP product 
developed by RNP. So, certainly, it cannot be easily renamed to 
geant2-perfSONAR-bundle. In fact, Guilherme Fernandes is the developer 
of the perfSONAR bundle installer.

I thought the perfSONAR bundle is the product tested and recommended by 
the perfSONAR consortium. As perfSONAR release management, we worked 
hard to make sure that the perfSONAR bundle works with multiple 
programming languages and installation methods (ant, perl, etc). 
Fausto's CACTIperfSONAR belongs to a new breed of products (something 
that we expected). I was under the impression that Fausto (and other 
developers) would like to have it included into into the perfSONAR 
bundle when it was stable enough.

But this doesn't have to be the case. If the current bundle were to 
become geant2-perfSONAR bundle, then the current release management will 
probably have to be called as geant2-perfSONAR release management (i.e, 
internet2 would probably do its own release management and maybe RNP 
chooses to do the same).

Is this the preference of the steering committee?

Loukik.


Joe Metzger wrote:
> Fausto,
> We anticipated multiple organizations would put together collections
> of measurement tools that all implement the same version of the perfSONAR
> protocols and have been tested and packaged together for for various
> reasons (to meet project management deadlines, targeted user communities,
> etc.)
>
> At the meeting last fall in France, we decided that such collections 
> would
> be called perfSONAR bundles. Several of us thought that the bundle 
> name would
> include organization that was putting together the package, but that 
> was never
> explicitly documented in meeting minutes and it hasn't happen with the
> bundles released since that meeting.
>
> Your's is the 3rd bundle to be developed, so logically following the 
> examples
> on the download page and what was previously agreed to, it should be 
> called
> the "PerfSONAR V3.0 Bundle", and the collection that Internet2 is 
> putting together
> real soon now could be the "PerfSONAR V4.0 Bundle".
>
> But I don't think that is a workable plan.
>
>
>
> So, what do people think about changing the bundle release section
> to something like:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>  perfSONAR Bundle Releases
>        * GEANT PerfSONAR Bundle v2.1 NEW! (22 Aug, 2007)
>            - Current Production Release recommended to European NRENs
>        * RNP CACTISonar Bundle v0.2  NEW! (22 Aug, 2007)
>            - Pre-Release Alpha
>        * GEANT PerfSONAR Bundle v2.0 (25 May, 2007)
>        * Initial PerfSONAR Release v1.0 (18 July, 2006)
>
> Note: bundles are named according to the group that managed the 
> packaging,
> and usually contain contributions from multiple organizations.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Then in the near future Internet2 can add something like the following
> without going through this whole discussion again:
>       * Internet2 perfSONAR-PS bundle v1.0 (?? October, 2007)
>
>
> What do people think of this idea?
>
> --Joe
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 30, 2007, at 1:20 PM, Fausto Vetter wrote:
>
> > Hi Loukik,
> >
> > Answers follow below:
> >
> > Quoting Loukik Kudarimoti 
> > <>:
> >
> > > Hi Fausto,
> > >
> > > I noticed that on the wiki downloads page, you have added a new section
> > > called perfSONAR suite and added the cacti plug-in stuff there.
> > >
> > > I think the right place for it is the Visualization tools section. I
> > > think so because
> > >
> > > * we haven't defined what a suite is (the last time it was proposed, we
> > > agreed to use the bundle instead)
> >
> > I defined as a suite once:
> > - it implements an MA-RRD
> > - it is a client to MPs (for while CLMP - extensible for others)
> > - it enables users to manage their tests among their mps
> > - it enables users to extend metrics shared
> > - it enables users to manage data shared using MA-RRD implemented
> >
> > So, in summary, it is not just a visualization tool. It is more.
> >
> > plans to future: topology service at least
> >
> > > * why is it called a suite?
> >
> > I think because it is not just a tool to see metrics that other MA 
> > provide, once it manage the data handle by it.
> >
> > > Can you please move it?
> >
> > do you think I need to move it anyway?
> >
> > > thanks,
> > > Loukik.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Fausto Vetter
> > NPD/UFSC
> >
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