perfsonar development work

[Aaron Brown <>]

Michael Bischoff wrote:
> Because perfsonar is suppose to be implementation ambiguous you can't use 
> specific tests
> but always have to rely on more abstact test/questions. (is well configured?, 
> is
> operational? etc) The answer should (offcourse) be as specific as possible eg
> ('something' failed) isn't going to make anything happy.
>
> This is also the reason why my proposal doesn't have to return one value, but 
> could return
> more then one. (errors that is as success(es) need(s) not to be reported back.
> I'll add an example that also illustrates that(which I probably should have 
> added
> in the first place, sorry))
>   
There's no reason why this new proposed schema only has to provide 1 
return value. You could ask for the generic test and it could spit back 
the result of a series of tests.

The request in verena's example would be something like:

 <nmwg:message id="msg1234" type="EchoRequest"
   xmlns:nmwg="http://ggf.org/ns/nmwg/base/2.0/";>
   <nmwg:metadata id="meta">
     
<nmwg:eventType>http://schemas.perfsonar.net/tools/admin/selftest/1.0</nmwg:eventType>
   </nmwg:metadata>
   <nmwg:data id="data" metadataIdRef="meta"/>
  </nmwg:message>

and the response would have all the subtests it performed as per 
verena's response:

 <nmwg:message id="message1213971959" type="EchoResponse"
   xmlns:nmwg="http://ggf.org/ns/nmwg/base/2.0/"; 
xmlns:result="http://ggf.org/ns/nmwg/result/2.0/";>
   <nmwg:metadata id="meta">
     
<nmwg:eventType>http://schemas.perfsonar.net/tools/admin/selftest/1.0</nmwg:eventType>
   </nmwg:metadata>
   <nmwg:data id="data" metadataIdRef="meta"/>
   <nmwg:metadata id="bwctl_command_test">
     <result:subject id="subjreturn" metadataIdRef="meta"/>
     
<nmwg:eventType>http://schemas.perfsonar.net/tools/admin/selftest/MP/BWCTL/bwctl_command_test/success/1.0</nmwg:eventType>
   </nmwg:metadata>
   <nmwg:data id="data_bwctl_command_test" 
metadataIdRef="bwctl_command_test">
     <nmwg:datum>BWCTL tool /usr/local/bin/bwctl found </nmwg:datum>
   </nmwg:data>
   <nmwg:metadata id="bwctl_exec_test">
     <result:subject id="subjreturn" metadataIdRef="meta"/>
     
<nmwg:eventType>http://schemas.perfsonar.net/tools/admin/selftest/MP/BWCTL/bwctl_exec_test/success/1.0</nmwg:eventType>
   </nmwg:metadata>
   <nmwg:data id="data_bwctl_exec_test" metadataIdRef="bwctl_exec_test">
     <nmwg:datum>BWCTL tool /usr/local/bin/bwctl executable.</nmwg:datum>
   </nmwg:data>
   <nmwg:metadata id="bwctld_running_test">
     <result:subject id="subjreturn" metadataIdRef="meta"/>
     
<nmwg:eventType>http://schemas.perfsonar.net/tools/admin/selftest/MP/BWCTL/bwctld_running_test/error/1.0</nmwg:eventType>
   </nmwg:metadata>
   <nmwg:data id="data_bwctld_running_test" 
metadataIdRef="bwctld_running_test">
     <nmwg:datum>bwctld not running! </nmwg:datum>
   </nmwg:data>
   <nmwg:metadata id="ntpd_running_test">
     <result:subject id="subjreturn" metadataIdRef="meta"/>
     
<nmwg:eventType>http://schemas.perfsonar.net/tools/admin/selftest/MP/BWCTL/ntpd_running_test/success/1.0</nmwg:eventType>
   </nmwg:metadata>
   <nmwg:data id="data_ntpd_running_test" 
metadataIdRef="ntpd_running_test">
     <nmwg:datum>ntpd running.</nmwg:datum>
   </nmwg:data>
 </nmwg:message>

Cheers,
Aaron