perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Andrew Lake <>]

On Apr 24, 2012, at 6:10 PM, Erich Weiler wrote:

> 
>> 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.
> 
> Ah, that does clarify a couple things.  I didn't wait 4 hours after adding 
> it to see if it appeared then.  I'm trying again now, and will wait 4 hours 
> to see what happens.  But the weird part, initially at least, was that when 
> I deleted a host from my bandwidth test, the graph for that host remained 
> in the graphing page.  It didn't move it to the "Inactive" section, it left 
> the graph in the "Active" section.  Is that normal as well?  Would I have 
> to wait 4 hours for it to disappear as well?

It will take 1 week to go to Inactive.  The test will not run during that 
time, but the web page will not move it to the Inactive set until its seen no 
new data points for 1 week.

Thanks,
Andy


> 
> If so, then I'm golden, I just got confused and thought it didn't work...
> 
> Thanks for the tips!