perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Nina Jeliazkova <>]

Hi Manuel,

Two things here:

AFAIK, BWCTL service does not yet support authentication via GIdP (I might be wrong).

Second, in order to use authentication from psUI, you would need to switch on the authentication via Option menu



I have just noticed this menu is not available in BWCTL tab for some reason. The option menu is available for any perfsonar tab, provided it is not explicitly overriden or hidden by particular tab implementation.

I am sure BWCTL service and psUI tab developers (in cc:) will reply to you as well.

Best regards,
Nina

Manuel SUBREDU wrote:

 Hi (again) :) ,

 this time I have some issues with BWCTL service. Since noone provides
access to tests without authentication, I have enabled auth support but
something is not right and I don't understand why. What I have done:
*) auth_mode in /etc/bwctld.conf is set to "OAE"
*) oppd.conf (from /usr/lib/perfsonar/services/oppd/etc) has:
  - auth set to "1"
  - as_url set to
"http://homer.rediris.es:8080/perfSONAR-AS/services/AuthService"
*) bwctld setup and started with bwctld -c /etc/

I then used perfSONAR-UI and tried to make a test from RoEduNet to
anyone I have found on the perfSONAR-UI list. I used for this pourpose a
username and a password created by someone from RoEduNet (Gidp account)
but when I try to make the test I get this error:

<quote>

2009-07-17T11:41:33 info OPPD.no_service.INFO% Service: MP/BWCTL
2009-07-17T11:41:34 info OPPD.no_service.INFO% Authentication:

2009-07-17T11:41:34 error OPPD.no_service.ERROR% No authentication
information in SOAP header!

2009-07-17T11:41:34 info OPPD.no_service.INFO% Received message
2009-07-17T11:41:34 debug OPPD.no_service.DEBUG% Raw Message:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<nmwg:message xmlns:nmwg="http://ggf.org/ns/nmwg/base/2.0/"
xmlns:bwctl="http://ggf.org/ns/nmwg/tools/bwctl/2.0/"
xmlns:iperf="http://ggf.org/ns/nmwg/tools/iperf/2.0/" xmlns:nmtm=
"http://ggf.org/ns/nmwg/time/2.0/"
xmlns:nmwgt="http://ggf.org/ns/nmwg/topology/2.0/"
xmlns:result="http://ggf.org/ns/nmwg/result/2.0/" id="bwctl-request"
type="ErrorResponse">

  <nmwg:metadata id="bwctl-metadata">
    <bwctl:subject id="bwctl-subject">
      <nmwgt:endPoint type="ipv4" value="131.188.81.12"/>
    </bwctl:subject>

    <nmwg:eventType>http://ggf.org/ns/nmwg/tools/bwctl/2.0/</nmwg:eventType>
    <bwctl:parameters id="bwctl-parameters">
    <nmwg:parameter xmlns:nmwg="nmwg" name="duration"
value="60"/><nmwg:parameter xmlns:nmwg="nmwg" name="login"
value="perfsonar-RoEduNet"/><nmwg:parameter xmlns:nmwg="nmwg" name
="password" value="__removed__"/></bwctl:parameters>
  </nmwg:metadata>

  <nmwg:metadata id="iperf-metadata">
    <iperf:subject id="iperf-subject" metadataIdRef="bwctl-metadata">
      <nmwgt:endPointPair>
        <nmwgt:src type="ipv4" value="81.180.250.176"/>
        <nmwgt:dst type="ipv4" value="152.66.116.81"/>
      </nmwgt:endPointPair>
    </iperf:subject>
    <iperf:parameters id="iperf-parameters">
    <nmwg:parameter xmlns:nmwg="nmwg" name="protocol"
value="TCP"/><nmwg:parameter xmlns:nmwg="nmwg" name="windowSize"
value="32768"/></iperf:parameters>
    <nmwg:eventType>http://ggf.org/ns/nmwg/tools/iperf/2.0/</nmwg:eventType>
  </nmwg:metadata>

  <!-- triggers to indicate head of chains -->
  <nmwg:data id="1" metadataIdRef="iperf-metadata"/>


<nmwg:metadata id="return_message"><result:subject
metadataIdRef="message"
id="subjreturn"/><nmwg:eventType>error.authn.no_sectoken</nmwg:eventType></nmwg:metadata><nmwg:data
meta
dataIdRef="return_message" id="data_return_message"><nmwg:datum>No
authentication information in SOAP
header!</nmwg:datum></nmwg:data></nmwg:message>

2009-07-17T11:41:34 info OPPD.no_service.INFO% Service: MP/BWCTL
</quote>

 Do you have any ideea what is wrong here ?