perfsonar development work

[Jason Zurawski <>]

All;


> > sends back conflicting messages as to the results of the test (why 
> > are there 2 errors and a warning, it appears that again we have run 3 
> > separate tests here...).  It also is imposing additional result 
> > semantics to the datum items, if this was an 'error' or a 'waring' 
> > the eventType should say so.  If this proposal is being offered to 
> > extend syslog information mining it is being done in the wrong 
> > manner, there would need to be 3 sub-results (note the altered 
> > eventTypes and single datum elements) as per the original example 
> > where the selftest itself was code for several tests:
> I'm also noticing that the datum element can't be used that way:
>
> <nmwgr:datum *value="warning"*>*Could not read configuration falling 
> back to defaults*</nmwgr:datum>
>
> the value attribute is being set two times with different meanings. 
> The schema allows any attribute on datum (i.e. change value to type), 
> but as Jason is pointing, the type of information should be defined by 
> the eventType.

Thanks for catching that, you are absolutely right (I should have 
proofread my example better):

<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/MP/BWCTL/well_configured/WARNING/1.0
     </nmwg:eventType>
  </nmwg:metadata>
  <nmwg:data id="causes" metadataIdRef="meta">
    <nmwgr:datum>Could not read configuration falling back to 
defaults</nmwgr:datum>
  </nmwg:data>
</nmwg:message>

<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/MP/BWCTL/well_configured/ERROR/1.0
    </nmwg:eventType>
  </nmwg:metadata>
  <nmwg:data id="causes" metadataIdRef="meta">
    <nmwgr:datum>bwctld executable not found!</nmwgr:datum>
  </nmwg:data>
</nmwg:message>

<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/MP/BWCTL/well_configured/ERROR/1.0
    </nmwg:eventType>
  </nmwg:metadata>
  <nmwg:data id="causes" metadataIdRef="meta">
    <nmwgr:datum>bwctld not running!</nmwgr:datum>
  </nmwg:data>
</nmwg:message>

-jason