perfsonar development work

[Loukik Kudarimoti <>]

Martin Swany wrote:
> Hi Nina,
>
> > While I can agree this is true for counters like errors/drops, for
> > utilization it is essential to know if the value is in bits or bytes.
>
> I absolutely agree that it's critical from the end user's
> perspective, but my (perhaps naive) point is that this
> is really just a string.
>
> This is based on my desire to reduce everything to
> a simple time-series regardless of whether it is a
> series of active measurements, passive measurements
> or the EUR/USD exchange rate.  (Actually, I'd rather not
> see that last one...  :-)
Hoping that I understood your statements correctly, I think it depends 
on what the users are looking for. As a user, you would probably be 
happy with graphs showing the way utilisation has changed (?). However, 
there are certainly other users who want to know the actual value and 
how saturated the links are.

perfSONAR UI needs to cater for both and in order to do that the string 
indicating bits, bytes (or anything else) needs to have a definite set 
of values and they have to be accurately used by data providers.

Loukik.

> best,
> martin