perfsonar development work

[Nina Jeliazkova <>]

Jeff,

Jeff W. Boote wrote:
> Hi Nina,
>
> On Jun 2, 2008, at 7:51 AM, Nina Jeliazkova wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > We are discussing what information services should register into LS, 
> > besides service URL.  Recently, Jason advised to recognize service 
> > type by eventtypes, rather than by arbitrary strings like one found 
> > in "servicetype" parameter.
> >
> > This seems to work fine with RRD MA services, but not all other 
> > services submit information about eventtypes when registering to LS. 
> > Is there a guidance what schema should be supported in this case?
>
> Could you be more specific? Which services are not registering 
> eventTypes? This disrupts the dLS (and gLS) summarization model as 
> well...
So far I am aware of flowsa MA, developed at Surfnet ,  and  BWCTL and 
Hades by Win-Labor.  Verena is going to add support for eventtypes, but 
was asking of the syntax to be supported. Could you please advise her?
> I think we should concentrate effort to fix this on the service 
> registration side, not by adding heuristics on the client side (which 
> would then need to be copied to every other client).

Yes, sure - we've already introduced some perfsonarUI code that relies 
on eventtypes registered in LS and are trying to figure out how it will 
work with services other than RRD MA.

Nina
> jeff
>
> > Best regards,
> > Nina
> >
> > Nicolas Simar wrote:
> > > Nina Jeliazkova wrote:
> > > > Hi Verena,
> > > >
> > > > I can only refer to how it is currently done by RRDMA.
> > > >
> > > > Nicolas - is there documentation what services should register into 
> > > > LS?   Perhaps it is worth to bring this discussion to perfsonar-dev 
> > > > mailing list?
> > >
> > > Yes, bring it there. We need a decision taken for early next week.
> > > Please involve Pomodoros as he is the functional tester, he should 
> > > (?) know where is the registration documentation and how it should 
> > > be done.
> > >
> > > Nicolas
> > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Nina
> > > >
> > > > Verena Venus wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi Nina,
> > > > >
> > > > > Am Mittwoch, 28. Mai 2008 11:51:59 schrieb Nina Jeliazkova:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi Verena,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The reason for asking is that Jason recently advised us not to 
> > > > > > rely on
> > > > > > arbitrary strings in  "servicetype", but on event types , that are
> > > > > > registered in the LS along with the topology elements. We are in the
> > > > > > process of creating an workflow for psUI, which will recognize the
> > > > > > service type based on the reported eventtypes. Do you have plans to
> > > > > > include this information in LS registration?
> > > > > I can include eventtypes and I think this is a very useful 
> > > > > information. Can you please point me to a schema definition how 
> > > > > this should look like?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Verena
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > Best regards,
> > > > > > Nina
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Verena Venus wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Hi Nina,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Am Mittwoch, 28. Mai 2008 11:33:07 schrieb Nina Jeliazkova:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Hello all,
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > We had a discussion today about LS usage and its integration with
> > > > > > > > perfsonarUI and I have the following questions:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >   * Can you point me to a some document, describing what BWCTL and
> > > > > > > >     Hades services are registering into an LS, beside service URL.
> > > > > > > Not really, this is still an open question!
> > > > > > > At the moment, the services are only registering the following
> > > > > > > information:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > - URL
> > > > > > > - contact information
> > > > > > > - servicetype (MP/MA)
> > > > > > > - name
> > > > > > > - description
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I would be quite happy to know what information, and in what 
> > > > > > > format I
> > > > > > > should register.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >   * Is there a lookup service, which already registers BWCTL 
> > > > > > > > and Hades
> > > > > > > >     services?
> > > > > > > For test purposes I always used:
> > > > > > > http://selena.acad.bg:8070/axis/services/LookupService
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >   * I could propose to use our new LS for registering these 
> > > > > > > > services
> > > > > > > >     (for test purposes)
> > > > > > > >     http://uran.acad.bg:8080/XML-LS/services/LookupService, but of
> > > > > > > >     course anything else is welcome.
> > > > > > > I can configure the JRA1 boxes to take this one. (I have to 
> > > > > > > update them
> > > > > > > (see mails before), and can setup the LS registration then also.)
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Kind regards,
> > > > > > > Verena