perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Jeremy Palmer <>]

For basic Linux management tasks, ClusterSSH works well for managing a bunch of 
identical hosts. Not really an "Automation" tool, but makes life much easier 
when trying to manage a large number of perfsonar boxes.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/clusterssh/
http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/413853:managing-multiple-linux-servers-with-clusterssh

It's a super easy way to send commands to all hosts at the same time vi ssh if 
you don't mind running an Xwin server on your desktop. I personally use Cygwin-X 
under Windows 7 and it works well. ClusterSSH can be installed in RHEL/CentOS 
with a simple "yum install clusterssh" (only needs to be installed on your ssh 
"jump host", not all perfsonar hosts)

Jeremy Palmer
Senior Network Engineer
ViaWest, Inc.
Office: 720.891.1045
Fax: 303-874-5236
http://www.viawest.com

On 10/7/2014 7:39 PM, Jason Zurawski wrote:
> Hey Trey;
>
> This is great start.  I am going to start compiling the information we 
> receive here:
>
> http://www.perfsonar.net/deploy/automated-management
>
> If anyone else has info for the tools Trey mentioned, or others that are 
> listed on the page, and they wouldn't mind sharing, please let me know onlist 
> or privately.
>
> Thanks;
>
> -jason
>
> On Oct 7, 2014, at 2:03 PM, Trey 
> Dockendorf<>
>   wrote:
>
> > Now that 3.4 is here I thought I'd begin the dialog regarding automation with 
> > those who wish to use configuration management on their perfsonar instances.
> >
> > For deployment my site uses Foreman [1].  Other tools like Cobbler would 
> > likely work too but I have no experience with other tools.
> >
> > I updated a Gist [2] that contains the stock kickstart from 3.4 NetInstall as 
> > well as my exact Foreman templates used to provision my hosts.  I have not 
> > yet provisioned the 3.4 hosts , but plan to shortly.
> >
> > For those looking to manage yum-cron and that utilize Puppet, I wrote a 
> > yum-cron Puppet module [3] that may be of use.
> >
> > Has anyone done any automation specific to PerfSONAR?  The only automation 
> > specific to PerfSONAR I have written is a module to manage the internet2 
> > repos [4], which is likely in need of updating.
> >
> > - Trey
> >
> > [1]:http://theforeman.org/
> > [2]:https://gist.github.com/treydock/7d1daf44e7b46d6a484f
> > [3]:https://forge.puppetlabs.com/treydock/yum_cron
> > [4]:https://github.com/treydock/puppet-internet2_repo
> >
> >
> > =============================
> >
> > Trey Dockendorf
> > Systems Analyst I
> > Texas A&M University
> > Academy for Advanced Telecommunications and Learning Technologies
> > Phone: (979)458-2396
> > Email:  
> > Jabber: