perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

["Robert V. Bolton" <>]

On 07/23/2012 01:38 PM, Alan Whinery wrote:
> 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
Thanks for your help Alan.

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Robert V. Bolton
Systems Administrator
University of Utah
Center for High Performance Computing
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