perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

["Buraglio, Nicholas D" <>]

Stream of consciousness... I was thinking something like a web front end
to ring-ping and ring-all <controlled command subset>.  The real value is
being able to add access control to the ring tools, I think, and
leveraging the ability to create on demand and private rings like you can
do with the other toolkit pieces.  The thought process I had was that it
could be pretty useful for things like testing anycast DNS, checking
multiple paths quickly, automating and creating baselines with these
tools, and even graphing them somehow is also interesting to me
personally.  Making the tools available for those that don't want to use
CLI tools, like has been done with iperf/bwctl is also valuable.
I realize that this is expanding the scope of the perfSonar toolkit to
things beyond performance.  It seems like a logical next step.

nb

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Nick Buraglio  
Lead Network Engineer
University of Illinois
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On 5/30/13 6:42 PM, "Brian Tierney" 
<>
 wrote:

>
>I discussed this briefly with Michael Sinatra a while back, and I think
>we agreed it might
>be a good idea.
>
>Do you have some specific suggestions on what would be most useful here?
>
>BTW: ESnet has no plans to reduce its commitment to perfSONAR.
>
>On May 23, 2013, at 12:28 PM, "Buraglio, Nicholas D"
><>
> wrote:
>
>> Has there been any thought into incorporating the NLNog ring toolkit (
>>https://ring.nlnog.net/toolbox/ ) into perfSonar?  Setting up a ring
>>node got me thinking about how this could be a potentially useful add-in
>>to the perfSonar toolkit (and be one less host to maintain).  Admittedly
>>it is a bit of a different set of features, however, being able to
>>utilize the ring tools could be very useful for those that don't meet
>>the requirements for becoming a ring node.  It could also potentially
>>add a very large set of existing test and data points available to a far
>>larger audience. 
>> I know that the development future of perfSonar is a bit up in the air,
>>this could be a possible mechanism keeping perfSonar in the forefront of
>>use.  
>> 
>> nb
>> 
>> ---
>> Nick Buraglio
>> Lead Network Engineer
>> University of Illinois
>> P: 217.244.6428
>> 
>> AS38 AS40387 AS10932 AS32698
>