perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Nina Jeliazkova <>]

Candido Rodriguez Montes wrote:
> 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...
>
Do I understand right,  even if we change psUI configuration,
authentication will still not work ?
> Nina, please, in the meantime change the default URL to the new one.
OK.

For web start this is a configuration in perfsonar.jnlp file    
<argument>-mhttps://mds.rediris.es:8443</argument>
and a command line option -m https://mds.rediris.es:8443  if run standalone

Meanwhile I've tried changing the MDS URL via the Options menu, but
GEANT GIdP doesn't appear indeed.  Any hints how should we proceed?

Best regards,
Nina
>
> 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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