perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Alan Whinery <>]

On 7/23/2012 9:33 AM, Robert V. Bolton wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm just getting started with perfSONAR and I'm trying to get my head
> wrapped around a few things. I'm with the University of Utah and we
> have discussed setting up a few perSONAR boxes in a few different
> location around our network and were looking into the idea of a
> central SNMP Measurement Archive.  If I'm reading the documentation
> correctly this can be done, yet I haven't seen any documentation on
> the details of the set up. Is this done by a server running software
> like Cacti or is this data stored locally on the perfSONAR box in RRD
> files? If anyone has any resources that better explains the function
> of the SNMP Measurement Archive I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> Thank you,
>
Hi Robert --

If you're using the PerfSONAR Network Peformance Toolkit, it comes with
Cacti installed. Seems like this may be a missing link from what you wrote.

>  -Enabling SNMA MA service
>   
> http://code.google.com/p/perfsonar-ps/wiki/pSPerformanceToolkit321#Enabled_Services
>  -Setting up cacti
>   
> http://code.google.com/p/perfsonar-ps/wiki/pSPerformanceToolkit321#Cacti_Administration