perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

["Li, Yee-Ting" <>]

We, at SLAC, also have similar requirements and would love to something 
similar. Whilst we are dedicating some time (trying to) building own own 
up-to-date iso's, i think it would be of huge benefit to the community if the 
toolkit can be kept up-to-date wrt to zero-day exploits etc.

This is especially important due to the requirement to have the hosts 
internet visible.

Whilst we have managed to persuade our security guys that this is a useful 
product, we have had to put in a provision in our security plan that if the 
distro falls behind, then we will literally just turn the box off - which 
kinda defeats the purpose of a monitoring box imo.

Yee.


On 23 Jan 2010, at 16:29, jim warner wrote:

> At the San Antonio member meeting performance workshop I heard it said 
> that users of the knoppix perfsonar distro could expect support.  In the 
> event of critical security updates, we could count on an announcement on 
> the mailing list and a fixed ISO image.  That promise means a lot to us, 
> if I really heard it -- if I didn't make it up.  I sometimes hear what I 
> want to hear rather than what's said.
> 
> If there is no promise of enough support to make the Knoppix 
> distribution an appliance, I probably cannot run it as a service in my 
> data center.   That would be too bad, because so far it looks really 
> useful.  I am hoping for an SLA-like statement for the distribution as 
> part of announcement on toolkit page.  I need something to show to the 
> data center management group.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -jim warner, UCSC
>