perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Gerry Creager <>]

That's at least consistent behavior over the last couple of releases. If 
memory serves, it's a database issue.

gerry

On 04/24/2012 04:01 PM, 

 wrote:
> Actually, the behavior is stranger than that.  Sometimes the delete doesn't
> work, but sometimes the "add Host" doesn't work for a particular test either.
> In fact it doesn't work most of the time, I'm having a really hard time adding
> test hosts for throughput testing.  I even looked in the mysql databases in
> the bwctl database, and the new test nodes do not appear there.  It appears I
> can delete them from mysql manually from the appropriate tables and they go
> away from the web interface correctly.
>
> I'm seeing errors in the apache logs:
>
> [Tue Apr 24 13:38:02 2012] [error] [client 1.1.1.1] [Tue Apr 24 13:38:02 2012]
> index.cgi: Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric gt (>) at
> /opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/web/root/admin/regular_testing/templates/body.tmpl
> line 38., referer: https://myhost.com/toolkit/admin/regular_testing/
> [Tue Apr 24 13:38:02 2012] [error] [client 1.1.1.1] [Tue Apr 24 13:38:02 2012]
> index.cgi: Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric gt (>) at
> /opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/web/root/admin/regular_testing/templates/body.tmpl
> line 42., referer: https://myhost.com/toolkit/admin/regular_testing/
> [Tue Apr 24 13:38:02 2012] [error] [client 1.1.1.1] [Tue Apr 24 13:38:02 2012]
> index.cgi: Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric gt (>) at
> /opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/web/root/admin/regular_testing/templates/body.tmpl
> line 38., referer: https://myhost.com/toolkit/admin/regular_testing/
> [Tue Apr 24 13:38:02 2012] [error] [client 1.1.1.1] [Tue Apr 24 13:38:02 2012]
> index.cgi: Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric gt (>) at
> /opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/web/root/admin/regular_testing/templates/body.tmpl
> line 42., referer: https://myhost.com/toolkit/admin/regular_testing/
> [Tue Apr 24 13:38:58 2012] [error] [client 1.1.1.1] Subroutine
> perfSONAR_PS::NPToolkit::Config::HostsFile::getaddrinfo redefined at
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Exporter.pm line 65., referer:
> https://myhost.com/toolkit/admin/regular_testing/
> [Tue Apr 24 13:38:58 2012] [error] [client 1.1.1.1]  at
> /opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/web/root/admin/regular_testing/../../../../lib/perfS
> ONAR_PS/NPToolkit/Config/HostsFile.pm line 27, referer:
> https://myhost.com/toolkit/admin/regular_testing/
> [Tue Apr 24 13:38:58 2012] [error] [client 1.1.1.1] Subroutine
> perfSONAR_PS::NPToolkit::Config::HostsFile::AF_INET6 redefined at
> /opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/web/root/admin/regular_testing/../../../../lib/perfS
> ONAR_PS/NPToolkit/Config/HostsFile.pm line 28, referer:
> https://myhost.com/toolkit/admin/regular_testing/
> [Tue Apr 24 13:38:58 2012] [error] [client 1.1.1.1] [Tue Apr 24 13:38:58 2012]
> index.cgi: Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric gt (>) at
> /opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/web/root/admin/regular_testing/templates/body.tmpl
> line 38., referer: https://myhost.com/toolkit/admin/regular_testing/
> [Tue Apr 24 13:38:58 2012] [error] [client 1.1.1.1] [Tue Apr 24 13:38:58 2012]
> index.cgi: Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric gt (>) at
> /opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/web/root/admin/regular_testing/templates/body.tmpl
> line 42., referer: https://myhost.com/toolkit/admin/regular_testing/
> [Tue Apr 24 13:38:58 2012] [error] [client 1.1.1.1] [Tue Apr 24 13:38:58 2012]
> index.cgi: Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric gt (>) at
> /opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/web/root/admin/regular_testing/templates/body.tmpl
> line 38., referer: https://myhost.com/toolkit/admin/regular_testing/
> [Tue Apr 24 13:38:58 2012] [error] [client 1.1.1.1] [Tue Apr 24 13:38:58 2012]
> index.cgi: Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric gt (>) at
> /opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/web/root/admin/regular_testing/templates/body.tmpl
> line 42., referer: https://myhost.com/toolkit/admin/regular_testing/
> [Tue Apr 24 13:39:24 2012] [error] [client 1.1.1.1] Subroutine
> perfSONAR_PS::NPToolkit::Config::HostsFile::getaddrinfo redefined at
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Exporter.pm line 65., referer:
> https://myhost.com/toolkit/admin/regular_testing/
> [Tue Apr 24 13:39:24 2012] [error] [client 1.1.1.1]  at
> /opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/web/root/admin/regular_testing/../../../../lib/perfS
> ONAR_PS/NPToolkit/Config/HostsFile.pm line 27, referer:
> https://myhost.com/toolkit/admin/regular_testing/
> [Tue Apr 24 13:39:24 2012] [error] [client 1.1.1.1] Subroutine
> perfSONAR_PS::NPToolkit::Config::HostsFile::AF_INET6 redefined at
> /opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/web/root/admin/regular_testing/../../../../lib/perfS
> ONAR_PS/NPToolkit/Config/HostsFile.pm line 28, referer:
> https://myhost.com/toolkit/admin/regular_testing/
> [Tue Apr 24 13:39:25 2012] [error] [client 1.1.1.1] [Tue Apr 24 13:39:25 2012]
> index.cgi: Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric gt (>) at
> /opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/web/root/admin/regular_testing/templates/body.tmpl
> line 38., referer: https://myhost.com/toolkit/admin/regular_testing/
> [Tue Apr 24 13:39:25 2012] [error] [client 1.1.1.1] [Tue Apr 24 13:39:25 2012]
> index.cgi: Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric gt (>) at
> /opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/web/root/admin/regular_testing/templates/body.tmpl
> line 42., referer: https://myhost.com/toolkit/admin/regular_testing/
> [Tue Apr 24 13:40:29 2012] [error] [client 1.1.1.1] [Tue Apr 24 13:40:29 2012]
> index.cgi: Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric gt (>) at
> /opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/web/root/admin/regular_testing/templates/body.tmpl
> line 38., referer: https://myhost.com/toolkit/admin/regular_testing/
> [Tue Apr 24 13:40:29 2012] [error] [client 1.1.1.1] [Tue Apr 24 13:40:29 2012]
> index.cgi: Argument "" isn't numeric in numeric gt (>) at
> /opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/web/root/admin/regular_testing/templates/body.tmpl
> line 42., referer: https://myhost.com/toolkit/admin/regular_testing/
>
> (I changed IP address and hostnames for confidentiality).
>
> Any clues here?  Is it maybe a bug in some web script somewhere?
>
> Thanks for any ideas!
>
> -erich