perfsonar development work

[Nicolas Simar <>]

What must be done for 3.1? Documentation change?
If yes along which lines?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Cheers,
Nicolas

Roman Lapacz wrote:
> Gijs Molenaar wrote:
>> Roman Lapacz wrote:
>>  
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> So far we have been using the port number 8080 for default
>>> service/tomcat installation. Apart from rpms, in the release 3.1 we want
>>> to have deb packages of our services running with Tomcat which is
>>> already present as deb package in Ubuntu. The problem is that default
>>> port value for it is 8180 (in RedHat it is still 8080).  The question is
>>> which port do we want to support as default one for our services? I
>>> guess there are much more people using Ubuntu than RedHat (or other
>>> rpm-based distros) so 8180 might be more convenient but I understand
>>> that we may want to keep 8080  as well-known solution.
>>>     
>>
>>
>> I think the best option is to add a note in the installation manual
>> about this since changing the default configuration for one of both
>> (deb/rpm) requires on of the following options:
>>
>> * A custom tomcat package.
>>   and we really don't want that any more
>>
>> * A installation manual that says that you should change the port.
>>   I don't know if this is a good option, since people maybe want to
>>   decide anyway on what port they want to run tomcat.
>>
>> * A post installation script in a package.
>>   But I don't think perfSONAR has the knowledge/manpower to do this?
>>
>>
>> A custom installation package isn't a bad idea, since more options
>> should be changed during installation. For example, the tomcat security
>> manager should be disabled at installation in the case of ubuntu/debian.
>> This package could have the name ps-mdm-common or something, and other
>> packages should depend on it. Any post installation options could be
>> added to this package also, for example configuring the right Java
>> environment for the distribution (update-alternatives). This would
>> simplify the installation process even more.
>>   
> 
> I like this idea. But you're right to do it after 3.1.
> 
> Roman
> 
>> But I don't know if this is a good idea to introduce before the 3.1
>> release since it requires some work, thinking and testing, and I don't
>> have the time to do it, sorry :). So for now I think the note in the
>> installation manual is the best (say: 8080 for RPM, 8180 for deb, if you
>> want to change go there and there).
>>
>>
>>   
> 

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Nicolas
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