perfsonar development work

[Atanas Terziyski <>]

Thanks Jason,

I am mistaken about one of the the requirements of ps-BUOY - Bwctl
(version 1.3+), which is definitely not the BWCTP MP.
Thanks for the answer,

Atanas



Jason Zurawski wrote:
> Atanas;
> 
> I am not the maintainer of the BWCTP MP unfortunately, and I am little
> unsure what you are trying to accomplish by mixing the MP with
> perfSONAR-BUOY.  These two services are not currently designed to work
> together.
> 
> perfSONAR-BUOY has its own scheduling and regular testing framework to
> perform BWCTL tests, a mysql component to store the results, and the web
> service to offer the perfSONAR-ized data.
> 
> I believe the BWCTL MP interacts with the SQL MA, but this is a question
> for Verena and Roman.
> 
> -jason
> 
> 
>> Hi Jason,
>>
>> I am continuing Ivan's task at BREN, trying to install perfSONAR-BUOY MA
>> service.
>>
>> At first I started with BWCTL MP and oppd using this reference:
>> http://www.perfsonar.net/download/bundles/perfsonar-mdm-bundle/3.1/perfSONAR-MDM-3.1_Admin_Guide_1.4.pdf
>>
>> BWCTL MP, from page 59.
>>
>> The OS is Debian 4, set with this perfsonar repositories:
>>
>> deb     http://downloads.perfsonar.eu/repositories/deb/  testing main
>> deb-src http://downloads.perfsonar.eu/repositories/deb/  testing main
>>
>> So far no problems with the manual installation of bwctl-1.2a, and oppd,
>>  oppd-mp-bwctl and oppd-webadmin from the upper repository. The bwctld
>> daemon starts without any problems, as well as webadmin page at:
>> http://uran.acad.bg/geant2-perl-bwctl-mp (bwctl/nina)
>>
>> oppd.pl can be started as explained in the testing instructions (8.2.6),
>> page 64 and get this in the log:
>>
>> 2009-04-26T22:40:44 notice OPPD.NOTICE% oppd service started
>> 2009-04-26T22:40:44 notice OPPD.MP_BWCTL.NOTICE% No selftests specified
>> for MP/BWCTL.
>>
>> Unfortunately the webadmin test page keeps showing test failed!:
>> ---
>> Deployment test failed! The following error occured while trying to
>> start BWCTL MP daemon (oppd.pl):
>> ---
>> In that case I am not confident if everything is OK in order to continue
>> with perfSONAR-BUOY MA service. Apart the /etc/init.d/oppd script looks
>> quite incompatible for our system.
>>
>> It would be valuable if you have any ideas about this situation?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Atanas
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Subject:
>>> Re: [pS-dev] perfSONAR-BUOY installation problem
>>> From:
>>> Jason Zurawski 
>>> <>
>>> Date:
>>> Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:07:35 -0500
>>> To:
>>> Ivan Vachev 
>>> <>
>>> CC:
>>> 
>>>
>>> Ivan;
>>>
>>>> I am looking for some help about installing perfSONAR-BUOY MA
>>>> service on
>>>> Ubuntu 8.10. I've followed the instructions written here
>>>> http://anonsvn.internet2.edu/svn/perfSONAR-PS/trunk/doc/service/pSB/Installation_Actions_Specification.doc
>>>> .
>>>> But the packages mentioned there are .rpms which I tried to convert
>>>> using alien but as I thought that wouldn't work. So if you can point me
>>>> some documentation for manual installation would be great.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Ivan Valchev
>>> perfSONAR-BOUY will only be released in RPM due to resource and time
>>> constraints of developers.  The packages (and documentation) were
>>> tested on Fedora, CentOS, and RHEL.
>>>
>>> You may try to convert using alien, but I am unsure what the results
>>> will be.  If you do get further with this attempt please let us know,
>>> I can add extra instructions to the documentation.
>>>
>>> Thanks;
>>>
>>> -jason
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