perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Warren Matthews <>]

Hi All

I hate to whine but Eric and Jeff say I should call it feedback and 
send it to the list.

We've had a terrible time with perfSONAR. I want to give up. Actually 
we haven't even made it to trying to install perfSONAR. We haven't even 
got the prerequisites installed yet.

The real problem is we have no java expertise. I'm trying to get 
another student but that'll be at least a few more weeks. The other 
problem is we have to run RHEL. It is mandated by our director; 
Unfortunately our site license does not include the application server 
channel, so we don't get tomcat. Frankly, we're also not really 
interested in understanding the packages and being experts on various 
server software tools. We're network support staff, we want to measure 
and trouble-shoot the network. Trying to get perfSONAR set up has been 
a real pain.

Perhaps you will say we should wait for better documentation. But we 
would like to be an early adopter because we need to offer monitoring 
services for our global campus. I would like to use perfSONAR so in 
future we can use data from other networks. Furthermore I claim most 
network admins are not going to try as hard as we did. If it doesn't 
just work they won't use it.


Warren Matthews, International Research Network Initiatives,
Georgia Institute of Technology.

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