perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Brian Tierney <>]

On Nov 8, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Michael Tiernan 
<>
 wrote:

> Two questions...
> 
> Are the outputs from the traceroute data tables documented anywhere?
> I'm looking to make sure I have all the defintions right in my script.

Andy should be able to answer this one....

> 
> Secondly, has anyone done anything to graphically plot the data?
> I took a whack at playing with the data to create a dot graph:
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27834209/traceroute_example.jpg
> (Data is *not* complete, just a rough sampling of some of the info.)
> 
> I just wanted to see if anyone else has done this sort of thiing.

>  

Very interesting graph!

Here is another way to visualize perfSONAR traceroute data:
> 
> https://ps-devel.lab.net.wisc.edu/toolkit/gui/services/psTracerouteViewer/
> 

We agree that some sort of traceroute viewing is needed, and are hoping to 
add something like this to a future version of the PS toolkit.