perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Alan Whinery <>]

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What Jason says is pretty much the ticket for the holistic solution,
installing packages may be useful for what you want to achieve, and
installing things piecemeal is very instructive about the innards of
perfSONAR in a way that the turnkey pSPT solution isn't.  (For one
thing, it would instill an appreciation for pSPT).

On 5/15/2013 8:54 AM, Jason Zurawski wrote:
> Hey Robert;
>
> We don't have a complete guide for how to do this, but there is some 
> information here that will be useful:
>
>   http://psps.perfsonar.net/start.html
>
> Those that have taken this road before have noted that it can be 
> problematic when attempting to use some of the RPMs due to version 
> mismatches and the like (particularly if you are starting with something 
> that != CentOS 5/6).  To prevent headaches we would recommend just sticking 
> with a pSPT if you want all the pSPT functionality.  If you plan to just 
> install a tool or two (like BWCTL and it's related libraries), the RPM 
> method should work fine. 
>
> Thanks;
>
> -jason
>
> On May 15, 2013, at 2:47 PM, "Robert V. Bolton" 
> <>
>  wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm looking to build a perfSONAR box without using the toolkit, but I 
>> can't seem to find any documentation on how to go about doing this. Do I 
>> just need to add the I2 repos and use the web100 kernel and then install 
>> the packages I need, or is it a little more complicated than that? 
>>
>> -- 
>> Robert V. Bolton
>> Systems Administrator 
>> University of Utah
>> Center for High Performance Computing
>> 801-528-8233 | 
>> 
>>