perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Andreas Hanemann <>]

Hi Ulisses,

More information about the purpose of perfSONAR visualisation tools can
be found in the attached paper and the corresponding presentation which
will be held at the ICISP conference this weekend.

For the CNM, we have written some scripts to convert topological
information which is contained in domain-specific formats (e.g. IS-IS
output) to the CNM data format. Another script is able to request the
data for these elements from the RRD MAs so that we can attach
utilisation information to the links.

For running the CNM Java and JavaWebStart have to be installed at a
machine. The launch of the client itself then only requires the right
URL (and being allowed to use the tool by entering the login and password).

For more information see: http://wiki.perfsonar.net/jra1-wiki/index.php/CNM

Best regards
Andreas

ulisses wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>
>   

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