perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Aaron Brown <>]

Hey Ian,

That’s bizarre. Did you run the discover_external_address command as root?

Cheers,
Aaron

On Mar 25, 2014, at 11:51 AM, Ian Gable 
<>
 wrote:

> 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
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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