perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Szymon Trocha <>]

Hi,

I was installing this version from scratch using LiveCD in a virtual 
machine environment (KVM). We observed two issues and was wondering if 
these are bugs or something people experienced too:

1) after first boot and running initial python script when chosen option 
3 - networking and entering all data and then rebooting the system the 
network configuration doesn't come up like it was not configured. When 
inspecting it closer it seems that the configuration is somehow saved to 
local storage and then retrieved (you can see it in 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0) but... the ONBOOT option is 
set to "no"! Looks like this item is not stored permanently in a correct 
way preventing users from proper configuration. We tried to used the 
script many times and the behaviour was the same.
We managed to overcome this in such way:
- after boot without bringing eth0, via console, we edited the above 
file and set ONBOOT=yes
- invoke the config script once again
- in option 3 everything was already there (note that ONBOOT option is 
not editable there) co just confirmed and saved again
- reboot
- it was ok :-) now so seems the new manually done config was reread 
from /etc... and properly wrote to local store
But I don't think this was proper behaviour - please verify

2) Even when the network is configured option 3 in the initial script is 
always grey (not green, not magenta)

Regards,

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Szymon Trocha

Poznań Supercomputing & Netw. Center ::: NETWORK OPERATION CENTER
Tel. +48 618582022 ::: http://noc.man.poznan.pl