perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Fausto Vetter <>]

Hi Kunal,

Can you send me the URL of the service that you just installed?

Another thing I need to help you debug is the message you are trying to 
send the service, since in perfSONAR you have different types of 
messages with different purposes. It is hard to know if you are sending 
the right message to the service. :-)

I would appreciate if you send it to us.

Thanks,
Fausto

kunal shroff wrote:
> hello,
>
> I apologize for lack of information in the previous email, i will try 
> to be more detailed in this one.
>
> I am trying to install the perfSONAR MA to view the bandwidth 
> utilization of one of our routers.
> From the wiki it was my understanding that the MA would be needed to 
> publish the information and the perfsonar  UI could then be used to 
> view this information.
> I have set up an rrd database which gets regularly updated with 
> information from the router interface (using SNMPwalk). but before 
> using this i wanted to test the perfsonar MA installation by using the 
> default test.rrd and rrd-database_TEST.xml, when I run the sample 
> request it prints the URL of the service the request and response 
> files the time taken and then exits.The wiki says i should be getting 
> back proper rrd data.
>
> I am looking into the MDM release now and will try to install it .
>
> thanks for all your help
> kunal
>
>
> Fausto Vetter wrote:
> > Hi Kunal,
> >
> > May you provide more information about the software you are trying to 
> > install? Have you tried the last available perfSONAR-MDM release 
> > (3.0)? Could you find the needed information you need to install the 
> > service?
> >
> > Basically, to ensure you have properly installed the service you 
> > should access through a web-browser the web-interface through the 
> > address:
> >
> > http://[hostname]:8080/geant2-java-rrd-ma/
> >
> > where [hostname] is the address of your server: IP or hostname.
> >
> > After accessing this address, you should be able to see the 
> > administration perfSONAR web-interface.
> >
> > After this step, you are able to access the configuration page which 
> > enables you to configure the basic configuration of any perfSONAR 
> > webservice.
> >
> > If you are not able to see this interface, let me know. By the way, 
> > you will need to create the stitching file which is the file that 
> > will tell the RRD-MA information about the interfaces you want to 
> > access and it make the linking between the RRD-Files and the 
> > information about the data it is presenting.
> >
> > After installing and doing the stitching, you will need to use the 
> > perfSONAR-UI to test if everything is working fine.
> >
> > Do not hesitate to contact us for help.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Fausto Vetter
> > Dante Application Service Desk
> >
> > kunal shroff wrote:
> > > hello,
> > >
> > > I have been trying to install perfSONAR to monitor the utilization 
> > > of one of our routers here at BNL.
> > > Following the instruction avaliable on the wiki i have installed the 
> > > rrd-ma, at first i am testing it with the default 
> > > rrd-database_TEST.xml.
> > > when I run the sample request it prints the URL of the service the 
> > > request and response files the time taken and then exits. I do not 
> > > see any rrd data(i am not really sure wht i should be looking for).
> > > I did not come across any error or warning msgs while performing the 
> > > previous step, the tomcat and axis installation also seem to be 
> > > operating fine.
> > >
> > > wht i would like to know is how i can confirm if i have installed 
> > > the rrd-ma successfully.
> > >
> > > i would greatly appreciate any help you could offer
> > >
> > > yours sincerely
> > > Kunal Shroff