perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Nina Jeliazkova <>]

Niederberger, Ralph wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to use perfsonarUIv0.15b with authentication enabled.
>
> When I try to connect to my SQLMA without enabling authentication I get the
> error message "error.authn.not_sectoken". 
> That is fine and tells me that I my server wants to get a GIdP.
>
> When I enable authentication. Noone asks for this token.
> Maybe it ask first, when I try to connect to my server. That's fine again.
>
> My server is reachable, see attached PNG: perfsonar.conf.PNG.
>
> When I then try to "Load metadata", I get an error, see attached file:
> perfsonar.error.message.PNG
>
> Looking into the perfsonar.log file (attached as:
> perfsonar.log.2010-02-25.txt), pointed to by the error.message I do not see
> any errors after having connected to mds.rediris.es.
>   
This is what I am getting with debug enabled:

net.geant.edugain.meta.query.MetaQueryException: Root of xml document
should be an md:EntitiesDescriptor
    at
net.geant.edugain.meta.query.MetaDataRequester.extractXMLData(MetaDataRequester.java:233)
    at
net.geant.edugain.meta.query.MetaDataRequester.getXMLMetaData(MetaDataRequester.java:85)
    at
org.perfsonar.client.base.authn.edugain.EduGAINMetadataService.getOrganizationList(Unknown
Source)
    at
org.perfsonar.perfsonarui.aa.AACertificate.queryMDS(AACertificate.java:162)
    at
org.perfsonar.perfsonarui.aa.AACertificate.retrieveCertificate(AACertificate.java:85)
    at
org.perfsonar.perfsonarui.aa.AASupport.getCertificate(AASupport.java:72)
    at
org.perfsonar.perfsonarui.aa.AAPerfsonarRequest.prepareEnvelope(AAPerfsonarRequest.java:66)
    at
org.perfsonar.perfsonarui.AbstractMARequest.run(AbstractMARequest.java:342)
    at
org.perfsonar.perfsonarui.AbstractMARequest.makeRequest(AbstractMARequest.java:287)
    at
org.perfsonar.perfsonarui.SmartMARequest.makeRequest(SmartMARequest.java:295)
    at
org.perfsonar.perfsonarui.ma.MAPerfsonarModel$1.makeRequest(MAPerfsonarModel.java:268)
    at
org.perfsonar.perfsonarui.ma.ui.actions.SetupDataRetrieveAllAction.run(SetupDataRetrieveAllAction.java:96)
    at
org.perfsonar.perfsonarui.ui.actions.PerfsonarRequestAction$1.construct(PerfsonarRequestAction.java:127)
    at
org.perfsonar.perfsonarui.ui.actions.GUIWorker$2.run(GUIWorker.java:83)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

Candido, are there some new changes in edugain behaviour we should be
aware of?

> So no hint what the problem is.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Best regards
>
> Ralph
>
> Btw: Does anyone now how to configure perfsonarUI that it loads my personal
> perfsonar.conf file and not the default one provided by perfsonarUIv0.15b.
There is a command line option -e URL_of-conf-file , but this will not
work in Web start settings.      An alternative would be installing your
own Web start version and customizing the Jnlp file to point to your
specific configuration.
>  
Best regards,
Nina
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