perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Andrew Lake <>]

Hi,

How long are you waiting for things to appear/disappear when you add/delete 
tests? A throughput graph will be removed from the "Active" test set when 
there is no data seen for 1 week. Also, it will not get added until bwctl 
successfully runs a test. If you're doing 4 hour tests, it could be up to 4 
hours after you add it. If its taking longer than that, you should check the 
logs to see if the bwctl test is failing for some other reason. The graphs do 
not show failed results (a long-standing feature request which is in our 
issue tracker) so I'm guessing that's causing some of the confusion.  Also, I 
would not recommend mucking with the database unless you really know what you 
are doing as you're likely to cause more issues.  Hope that clarifies some 
things.

Thanks,
Andy


On Apr 24, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Gerry Creager wrote:

> 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