perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Nina Jeliazkova <>]

Dear Ralph,

Niederberger, Ralph wrote:
> Dear Candido and all,
>
> Coming back to Candido's question concerning correct Uid/Passwd, I have
> analysed the problem a little bit deeper.
>
> After starting PerfsonarUI v0.15b without doing any further action related
> to my perfsonar MDM installation, I see already some first errors. The log
> of the Perfsonar UI is appended.
> (See the timeframe comments below also)
>
> I assume that the problem I have is a followup of these ones.
>
> See Log entries 2009-10-20 14:22:55 till 2009-10-20 14:23:04.
> At this point I have not yet set the "Enable authentication and
> Authorization" flag via the options menu and am using the default
> perfsonarUI.conf file. So nothing special so far.
>
>
> In the timeframe 2009-10-20 1433:01 till 2009-10-20 15:13:07,
> there came up some log entries though I have not done anything.
>
>   
This is fine, perfsonarUI is querying Lookup service in background,
errors happen but they have nothing to do with authorization.
> In the timeframe 2009-10-20 15:23:01 till 2009-10-20 15:23:07, I set "Enable
> authentication and Authorization" via options menu.
>
> Timeframe 2009-10-20 15:31:44 till 2009-10-20 15:31.46, I clicked on "Load
> metadata and metrics" having the default perfsonarUI.conf file and got the
> "Enter credentials" menue up.
>
> Timeframe 2009-10-20 15:44:01 till 2009-10-20 15:44:02, I get further error
> messages, though I have not done anything. perfsonarUI is still waiting for
> UID and Password info from the user.
>
>   
There is a single error message (the rest are INFO and WARNINNG), all
coming from edugain library, hopefully Candido can help with deciphering.

2009-10-20 15:44:02,187 [] ERROR
net.geant.edugain.meta.query.MetaDataUnmarshaller - HLPattern type not
defined

> So the problem already exists, though I have not put in any UID and Passwd
> information nor clicked on the "ok" button.
>   
What happens after you submit UID and password by clicking on the OK button?
> This implies the problem is not related to my perfsonar MDM installation at
> all. It is already existent within the perfsonarUI vers 0.15b client
> installed on MS Windows XP.
>
> Any hints what the problem could be?
>   
If I remember correct, the initial reasoning pointed to an expired
certificate in the GEANT infrastructure, not your particular
installation.  


Could somebody suggest a perfsonar service that is using authentication
to test with? 

Best regards,
Nina
> Best regards
>
> Ralph  
>
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>   
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: Candido Rodriguez Montes 
>> [mailto:]
>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. Oktober 2009 11:33
>> An: Niederberger, Ralph
>> Betreff: Re: AW: AW: [perfsonar-user] Problems with Authentication within
>> perfsonar
>>
>> Hi Ralph,
>>
>> On Oct 20, 2009, at 11:22 AM, Niederberger, Ralph wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Dear Candido,
>>>
>>> As far as I understand, there is no AS involved yet.
>>>
>>> I have installed MDM 3.1 and the AS service of this kit.
>>>
>>> The log is from my PerfsonarUI v.015b client.
>>> The log shows that I try to authenticate with my GIdP at the server
>>> from
>>> RedIRIS.
>>>       
>> You're right, although the GIdP is not operated by RedIRIS but by
>> DANTE. However, I just authenticated myself there and it works.
>> Are you sure your username and password are okay?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>     
>>> And this does not work. The AS comes into play later, after I have
>>> been authenticated by RedIRIS. Is that correct? And if that is
>>> correct, that
>>> means, that my AS server has not been involved yet.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> Ralph
>>>
>>> ***************************************************
>>> Ralph Niederberger
>>> Juelich Supercomputing Centre
>>> Institute for Advanced Simulation
>>>
>>> Phone:  +49 2461 61-4772
>>> Fax:    +49 2461 61-6656
>>> E-Mail: 
>>> 
>>> WWW:    http://www.fz-juelich.de/jsc/
>>>
>>> JSC is the coordinator of the
>>> John von Neumann Institute for Computing
>>> and member of the
>>> Gauss Centre for Supercomputing
>>> ***************************************************
>>>
>>> Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
>>> 52425 Jülich
>>>
>>> Sitz der Gesellschaft: Jülich
>>> Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Düren Nr. HR B 3498
>>> Vorsitzende des Aufsichtsrats: MinDirig'in Bärbel Brumme-Bothe
>>> Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem (Vorsitzender),
>>> Dr. Ulrich Krafft (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt,
>>> Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt
>>>
>>> ***************************************************
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>>> Von: Candido Rodriguez Montes 
>>>> [mailto:]
>>>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 20. Oktober 2009 11:14
>>>> An: Niederberger, Ralph
>>>> Cc: 
>>>> ;
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> Betreff: Re: AW: [perfsonar-user] Problems with Authentication within
>>>> perfsonar
>>>>
>>>> Hi Ralph,
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 20, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Niederberger, Ralph wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Dear Symon,
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry, to say this, but I get the same error message as I got on
>>>>> Sept. 4th.
>>>>> 2009. Nothing has changed.
>>>>>
>>>>> May be I have a different problem than that which has been solved?
>>>>>
>>>>> Any hints? Log of perfsonar is appended below.
>>>>>           
>>>> Sorry, but that log... from which perfSONAR service is?
>>>> Could you send me the log file of the AS?
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>
>>>>> Ralph
>>>>>
>>>>> ***************************************************
>>>>> Ralph Niederberger
>>>>> Juelich Supercomputing Centre
>>>>> Institute for Advanced Simulation
>>>>>
>>>>> Phone:  +49 2461 61-4772
>>>>> Fax:    +49 2461 61-6656
>>>>> E-Mail: 
>>>>> 
>>>>> WWW:    http://www.fz-juelich.de/jsc/
>>>>>
>>>>> JSC is the coordinator of the
>>>>> John von Neumann Institute for Computing
>>>>> and member of the
>>>>> Gauss Centre for Supercomputing
>>>>> ***************************************************
>>>>>
>>>>> Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
>>>>> 52425 Jülich
>>>>>
>>>>> Sitz der Gesellschaft: Jülich
>>>>> Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Düren Nr. HR B 3498
>>>>> Vorsitzende des Aufsichtsrats: MinDirig'in Bärbel Brumme-Bothe
>>>>> Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem (Vorsitzender),
>>>>> Dr. Ulrich Krafft (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald
>>>>> Bolt,
>>>>> Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt
>>>>>
>>>>> ***************************************************
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>>>>> Von: Szymon Trocha 
>>>>>> [mailto:]
>>>>>> Gesendet: Freitag, 9. Oktober 2009 15:26
>>>>>> An: 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Cc: Niederberger, Ralph
>>>>>> Betreff: Re: [perfsonar-user] Problems with Authentication within
>>>>>> perfsonar
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Niederberger, Ralph pisze:
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Has someone had the time to look into my problem with
>>>>>>> authentication
>>>>>>> service?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I reinstalled the AS and SQL-MA several times to be sure that I
>>>>>>> did not
>>>>>>> misconfigure something. The problem remains the same (see log
>>>>>>> below).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Could the problem be related to the fact that my GIdP account is
>>>>>>> not
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> setup
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> correctly?
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> Hi Ralph,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The problem you experienced with GIDP should be already fixed. Can
>>>>>> I ask
>>>>>> you to repeat your tests and verify it?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Szymon Trocha
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Poznan Supercomputing & Networing Center ::: NETWORK OPERATION
>>>>>> CENTER
>>>>>> Tel. (+48) 618582022
>>>>>> http://noc.man.poznan.pl  ::: http://noc.pionier.gov.pl
>>>>>>             
>>>> ....
>>>> --
>>>> Cándido Rodríguez Montes           E-mail: 
>>>> 
>>>> Middleware warrior                         Tel:+34 955 05 66 13
>>>> Red.ES/RedIRIS
>>>> Edificio CICA
>>>> Avenida Reina Mercedes, s/n
>>>> 41012 Sevilla
>>>> SPAIN
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>> --
>> Cándido Rodríguez Montes             E-mail: 
>> 
>> Middleware warrior                           Tel:+34 955 05 66 13
>> Red.ES/RedIRIS
>> Edificio CICA
>> Avenida Reina Mercedes, s/n
>> 41012 Sevilla
>> SPAIN
>>
>>
>>
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