perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[ulisses <>]

Hi all

some days ago there was a discusion about the installation experiences in 
gatech. In that
mails, it was discussed the setup of the applications, installing java, 
tomcat, etc... 
and installing the applications but without configuring it for monitoring of 
specific devices, I'm
interested in this part: I would like to know how much time/effort is needed 
to configure the applications 
to monitor specific interfaces and the mature state of the visualization 
tools.

currently I think there are two main front-ends that can be used by NOCs:

- perfSonarUI: which provides display information for Hades/IPPM MA and RRD MA
    
  http://wiki.perfsonar.net/jra1-wiki/index.php/PerfsonarUI

  RRD MA screen shot: 
http://wiki.perfsonar.net/jra1-wiki/images/5/51/PerfsonarUI-RRD.png
  IPPM/HADES screeb shot: 
http://wiki.perfsonar.net/jra1-wiki/images/3/38/PerfsonarUI-Hades.png

  To deploy an RRD MA an NREN has to define a XML config file, which 
currently cannot be created 
  automatically from routers' configurations. Currently only shows 
utilization and capacity.

  To deploy an IPPM/Hades MA the only thing needed is to download an up to 
date configuration file
  that includes all IPPM/Hades MA.

- CNM visualization tool: is a generic weather-map like visualization tool, 
uses a fetcher
  script to download the information to be included in the map.Currently 
there is one fetcher 
  for the RRD MA services. 

In general, the RRD MA stores reads any kind of information. But seeing the 
perfSonarUI/CNM, which 
currently showd capacity and utilization, I assume that this information is 
retrieved from SNMP 
in the first place. Am I wrong? Is people generating automatically rrd config 
files from routers' 
config files?


I understand that both perfSonarUI and CNM visualization tools need to be 
installed in all workstations 
used by the NOC.  Maybe It could be interesting to run them as a java applet. 
Any comment on this? Anybody tried it?

any comment will be greatly appreciated.

regards

        Ulisses