perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Candido Rodriguez Montes <>]

Hi Nina,

On Feb 25, 2010, at 8:56 PM, Nina Jeliazkova wrote:

> 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?

Yes. The server mds.rediris.es is no more available, as it was a pilot  
deployed during GEANT2 and that project is over. The new and official  
MDS is https://mds.edugain.org/ .

I noticed that problem two weeks ago but when I use the new MDS I  
cannot login using GIdP, as its metadata are not ok. I sent a message  
to SA2-GEANT3 and some people in Dante for fixing that problem but I'm  
still waiting for that...

Nina, please, in the meantime change the default URL to the new one.

Regards

> > 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
> <nina.vcf>

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