perfsonar development work

["Nina Jeliazkova" <>]

Stijn Melis 
<>
 wrote:

> > You can keep your syntax. My main point was that the information needed 
> > for the "finding related MP" task is contained in the registration.
> > 
> > For the event type we have to define one (or several), I think. In a 
> > discussion with Verena it was not so obvious what would be the best 
> > choice. For the RRD MA and other services it is related to directly to 
> > the metric like utilization. For the Telnet/SSH MP there are potentially 
> > many "metrics"  because you can do queries of BGP tables or execute many 
> > other commands. The event types may either describe all these 
> > capabilities individually (e.g. event type for BGP table), but then a 
> > list of event types may be quite long. A generic event type for the 
> > Telnet/SSH MP may be easier. This solution has the disadvantage that you 
> > cannot differentiate (in the LS) between the commands that can be 
> > executed on the devices. For example, one command may be allowed on 
> > several devices, but not on others.
> 
> Well, in the complete metadata configuration file, there are eventTypes 
> for all the supported commands. For example:
> 
> http://schemas.perfsonar.net/tools/sshtelnet/IP_BGP_SUMMARY/1.0
> http://schemas.perfsonar.net/tools/sshtelnet/IP_PING/1.0
> http://schemas.perfsonar.net/tools/sshtelnet/STATUS_SHOW_ENVIRONMENT/1.0
> etc...
> 
> As a generic event type for the SSHTELNET MP, you may want to search for 
> all eventTypes containing http://schemas.perfsonar.net/tools/sshtelnet/, 
> if that's possible.
> 

This might complicate the generic LS API Michael Bischoff is currently
developing - AFAIK, it will include queries for the entire string denoting
eventtypes, rather than a substring.

Michael, could you comment?

Best regards,
Nina


> But, for one reason or another, this information is not sent to the LS, 
> it only sends the information about the devices. Is this because it 
> appears in the data block of my metadata configuration file?
> 
> You can find a real metadata configuration file attached to this mail.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Stijn
> 
> > Best regards
> > Andreas
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> Stijn
> >>
> > 
> > 
> 
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