perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Ian Gable <>]

Aaron,

Suspiciously there is no activity in the log since Feb:
https://gist.github.com/igable/9764718


Also the IP and the rDNS record:

[igable@ps-latency
 ~]$ ifconfig
em2       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 78:2B:CB:54:B4:D3
          inet addr:132.206.245.252  Bcast:132.206.245.255  
Mask:255.255.255.224
          inet6 addr: fe80::7a2b:cbff:fe54:b4d3/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:28294055 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:24552044 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2601498385 (2.4 GiB)  TX bytes:2023623664 (1.8 GiB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:1521572 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1521572 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:950803612 (906.7 MiB)  TX bytes:950803612 (906.7 MiB)

[igable@ps-latency
 ~]$ dig -x 132.206.245.252

; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.1 <<>> -x 132.206.245.252
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 36960
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;252.245.206.132.in-addr.arpa.  IN      PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:
252.245.206.132.in-addr.arpa. 75120 IN  PTR     ps-latency.clumeq.mcgill.ca.

;; Query time: 3 msec
;; SERVER: 132.206.85.20#53(132.206.85.20)
;; WHEN: Tue Mar 25 11:50:34 2014
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 87


Ian


—
Ian Gable
HEPnet Canada, University of Victoria

+1 250 721 7728





On Mar 25, 2014, at 5:57 AM, Aaron Brown 
<>
 wrote:

> Hey Ian,
> 
> Could you send the log file 
> /var/log/perfsonar/discover_external_address.log ?
> 
> Cheers,
> Aaron
> 
> On Mar 24, 2014, at 5:08 PM, Ian Gable 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
>> Hi Aaron,
>> 
>> After running /opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/scripts/discover_external_address
>> 
>> I get:
>> 
>> [root@ps-latency
>>  init.d]# ./perfsonarbuoy_ma restart
>> ./perfsonarbuoy_ma stop: perfSONAR perfSONAR-BUOY MA Service (pid 5807?) 
>> not running
>> waiting...
>> /opt/perfsonar_ps/perfsonarbuoy_ma/bin/daemon.pl 
>> --config=/opt/perfsonar_ps/perfsonarbuoy_ma/etc/daemon.conf 
>> --pidfile=perfsonarbuoy_ma.pid --piddir=/var/run 
>> --logger=/opt/perfsonar_ps/perfsonarbuoy_ma/etc/daemon_logger.conf 
>> --user=perfsonar --group=perfsonar
>> ./perfsonarbuoy_ma start: perfSONAR perfSONAR-BUOY MA Service could not be 
>> started
>> 
>> 
>> then from the perfsonarbuoy_ma.log:
>> 
>> 2014/03/24 17:00:08 (5807) ERROR> daemon.pl:380 main:: - Failed to 
>> initialize module perfSONAR_PS::Services::MA::perfSONARBUOY on 
>> 8085:/perfSONAR_PS/services/pSB
>> 2014/03/24 17:03:58 (6121) WARN> daemon.pl:262 main:: - Setting listener 
>> queue size to 100
>> 2014/03/24 17:03:58 (6121) WARN> daemon.pl:267 main:: - Setting LS 
>> registration interval at 60 minutes
>> 2014/03/24 17:03:58 (6121) WARN> daemon.pl:272 main:: - Enabling echo 
>> service for each endpoint unless specified otherwise
>> 2014/03/24 17:03:58 (6121) FATAL> perfSONARBUOY.pm:238 
>> perfSONAR_PS::Services::MA::perfSONARBUOY::init - With LS registration 
>> enabled, you need to specify either the service accessPoint for the 
>> service or the external_address
>> 2014/03/24 17:03:58 (6121) ERROR> daemon.pl:380 main:: - Failed to 
>> initialize module perfSONAR_PS::Services::MA::perfSONARBUOY on 
>> 8085:/perfSONAR_PS/services/pSB
>> 
>> 
>> —
>> Ian Gable
>> HEPnet Canada, University of Victoria
>> 
>> +1 250 721 7728
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 24, 2014, at 2:00 PM, Aaron Brown 
>> <>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> Hey Ian,
>>> 
>>> Could you try running “ 
>>> /opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/scripts/discover_external_address “ as root, 
>>> and then try to restart the perfsonarbuoy_ma?
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Aaron
>>> 
>>> On Mar 24, 2014, at 4:39 PM, Ian Gable 
>>> <>
>>>  wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi All,
>>>> 
>>>> I’ve receiving the following error message in my perfsonarbuoy_ma.log:
>>>> 
>>>> 2014/03/24 15:00:08 (2975) ERROR> daemon.pl:380 main:: - Failed to 
>>>> initialize module perfSONAR_PS::Services::MA::perfSONARBUOY on 
>>>> 8085:/perfSONAR_PS/services/pSB
>>>> 2014/03/24 16:00:08 (4208) WARN> daemon.pl:262 main:: - Setting listener 
>>>> queue size to 100
>>>> 2014/03/24 16:00:08 (4208) WARN> daemon.pl:267 main:: - Setting LS 
>>>> registration interval at 60 minutes
>>>> 2014/03/24 16:00:08 (4208) WARN> daemon.pl:272 main:: - Enabling echo 
>>>> service for each endpoint unless specified otherwise
>>>> 2014/03/24 16:00:08 (4208) FATAL> perfSONARBUOY.pm:238 
>>>> perfSONAR_PS::Services::MA::perfSONARBUOY::init - With LS registration 
>>>> enabled, you need to specify either the service accessPoint for the 
>>>> service or the external_address
>>>> 
>>>> In the past, I remember this error being caused by having a strange 
>>>> entry in the hosts files or by having multiple interfaces with public 
>>>> IPs. However this hosts has normal /etc/hosts and only a single 
>>>> interface.
>>>> 
>>>> The web interface of the host can be viewed at: 
>>>> http://ps-latency.clumeq.mcgill.ca/toolkit/
>>>> 
>>>> Ideas?
>>>> 
>>>> Ian
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> —
>>>> Ian Gable
>>>> HEPnet Canada, University of Victoria
>>>> 
>>>> +1 250 721 7728
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>