perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Andrew Lake <>]

Hi Andrew, 

As Alan indicated, we are working on a new REST interface for the measurement archive which should make getting at the data easier. We are currently doing internal testing but it should find its way onto a Toolkit release candidate early this summer. Documentation of the interface can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/perfsonar-ps/wiki/MeasurementArchiveClientGuide. That page has an overview, you can also find links to docs on new Perl and Python libraries down at the bottom of that page.  It's still got some time before its out in the wild, but hopefully in the future it will make working with the interface directly and writing tools much simpler.

Thanks,

Andy

On Apr 28, 2014, at 3:38 AM, Andrew Koerner <> wrote:

Alan and Andrew,

I am interested in exporting owamp data for the use of statically generating graphs for research documents.  I have some experience interfacing with the SOAP interface and was just curious if there was an alternative option.

Thank You,

Andrew Koerner

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Alan Whinery <> wrote:

On 4/25/2014 12:21 AM, Andrew Koerner wrote:
> Hello,
> Is there a tool or defined way to export measurement data to a flat file?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew

It's an interesting time to ask this question, given that the work that
has been done for querying a perfSONAR measurement archive (through the
external interface, rather than SQL), has been mostly with the old
SOAP/XML type interface, and yet the new RESTful interface should be
easier to interface with, so presumably, there may be tools coming.

Can you say what measurement data you want to export, and how often, or
otherwise set up the situation?

I think that you will find many users who agree that an export tool
would be useful.

-Alan