perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Jason Zurawski <>]

Greetings;

The perfSONAR project has finalized the end of life steps for all 3.2 
versions of the pS Performance Toolkit.  As of today, March 28th 2014, this 
product will not be supported and we strongly encourage all users to migrate 
to the 3.3 release series immediately.  Note that CentOS packages will 
continue to be updated by upstream sources, but perfSONAR specific packages 
will not be available, including web100 patched kernels and build-specific 
updates to the measurement tools.  

For individuals who would like to have access to the existing RPMs, the 
project has created a "vault" containing the last builds of project software:

  http://software.internet2.edu/vault/

The Internet2 repository software (versions 0.2-9 and above for version 3.2 
users) contains directives to enable this feature.  The repository package 
can be found in these locations, or will be updated for existing installation 
via YUM:

  
http://software.internet2.edu/rpms/el5/x86_64/main/RPMS/Internet2-repo-0.2-9.noarch.rpm
  
http://software.internet2.edu/rpms/el5/i386/main/RPMS/Internet2-repo-0.2-9.noarch.rpm

Once enabled, the vault will allow existing toolkit builds to access the old 
RPMs. However, it will not allow someone to install a fresh instance from a 
netinstall ISO.  To enable this repo:

1) Edit the "/etc/yum.repos.d/Internet2-Vault.repo" file and change "enabled 
= 0" to "enabled = 1" for both repositories listed in this file

2) Run 'yum update' to update the cache of packages

Thanks, and please relay any questions you might have;

The pS Performance Toolkit Development Team

On Mar 3, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Jason Zurawski 
<>
 wrote:

> Greetings;
> 
> This notice serves as a 1 month warning regarding end of live support for 
> the 3.2 series of the pS Performance Toolkit.  We strongly encourage all 
> adopters to make steps in the coming weeks to migrate to the latest support 
> release, 3.3.2.
> 
> Thanks, and please relay any questions you may have.  
> 
> The pS Performance Toolkit Development Team
> 
> On Dec 17, 2013, at 9:33 AM, Jason Zurawski 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
>> Greetings:
>> 
>> This is the notification that the scheduled the End of Life (EOL) for the 
>> pS Performance Toolkit v3.2 will be Friday March 28th, 2014.  All 
>> architectures of the pS Performance Toolkit v3.2 (i386, x86_64) are 
>> impacted, and the software will be removed from the active mirrors on that 
>> date.  
>> 
>> A frozen version will be migrated to a vault (instructions will be 
>> provided for use of this construct at a later date) where v3.2 of this 
>> software will remain available indefinitely.  You may use the vault in the 
>> same way you have used the mirrors in the past, however no updates will be 
>> released for any of the software in this location moving forward.
>> 
>> Accordingly, the perfSONAR-PS Project strongly recommends that you migrate 
>> any pS Performance Toolkit installs to the latest version (3.3) before the 
>> EOL date.  
>> 
>> Thanks;
>> 
>> The pS Performance Toolkit Development Team