perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Stefan Piperov <>]

On Wed, 1 Oct 2014, Jason Zurawski wrote:

> - As a P.S. to the previous bullet - perfSONAR is not an appliance...

Jason, are you not afraid that a statement like this will push away many 
users? In our collaboration (CMS) perfSONAR was recommended as a _tool_ 
for diagnosing network problems. A (good) tool normally does not require 
maintenance or babysitting.

If I am to spend any significant amount of time (like patching the system 
twice per day, as suggested in one of the responses), I'd rather not use 
perfSONAR at all.

My server has been hacked already twice, which puts me in a really bad 
situation in relation to the network security people.
Plus the machine was found 'frozen' a couple of more times during this 
last year that I have uesd perfSONAR.
Quite disappointing.

Regards,
Stefan.