perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Szymon Trocha <>]

Hi Peter,

Thank you for interest in perfSONAR.
Fausto has already answered for most of your questions.

Peter Tavenier pisze:
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> Hi everybody,
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> My name is Peter Tavenier and I'm working at SARA Computing & Networking
> Services. I'm working on a project were I'm looking at perfSONAR for 
> monitoring.
> I need to set this up, but I'm quite confused by all the different version I 
> see.
>
> If I understand it correctly perfSONAR is just a protocol developed by the
> perfSONAR community (all parties working on perfSONAR), so different
> implementations/services are able communicate with each other. Is this 
> correct?
>
> On the download page of the perfSONAR wiki
> (http://wiki.perfsonar.net/jra1-wiki/index.php/PerfSONAR_Downloads) I see
> several services, but also bundle releases.

Bundles are simply sets of services released at the same time by one of 
the organisations. Services may be downloaded and installed 
individually. Please look at relevant documentations.

> I'm not sure what would be the best way to start with perfSONAR. When I search
> for perfSONAR, I find the most info about Internet2 and GEANT2 JRA1. Are this
> two totally different perfSONAR releases? And if so, what are the major 
> focuses
> of this releases or differences?
>
> Is 
>
>  the same mailing list as
> ?

yes

Regards,
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Szymon Trocha

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