perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Andreas Haupt <>]

Hi Andrew,

Am Dienstag, den 11.11.2014, 10:45 -0500 schrieb Andrew Lake:
> On Nov 11, 2014, at 10:13 AM, Andreas Haupt 
> <>
>  wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, den 11.11.2014, 09:16 -0500 schrieb Andrew Lake:
> >> MySQL is no longer required so that is entirely expected.
> > 
> > Ah, but why is it throwing errors and errors about the lack of MySQL
> > access then?
> 
> It's throwing errors because your host is not configured properly and is 
> trying to talk to a component no longer used. More on this in my last 
> comment below...

Ah, ok.

> >> Looks like you may also need to install "yum install 
> >> perl-perfSONAR_PS-Toolkit-SystemEnvironment" so your old perfSONARBUOY 
> >> tests get migrated to the new regular testing environment. 
> > 
> > Yes, perl-perfSONAR_PS-Toolkit-SystemEnvironment includes the
> > mysql-server rpm dependency. Nevertheless it (of course) does not
> > configure the service.
> > 
> > So what's the best we can do now? Shut down the service as it doesn't do
> > anything meaningful anyway?
> > http://perfson1.ifh.de/serviceTest/psGraph.cgi just gives me an error.
> 
> You may want to try a "yum reinstall 
> perl-perfSONAR_PS-Toolkit-SystemEnvironment" and reboot the host. Your goal 
> here is to get /opt/perfsonar_ps/regular_testing/etc/regular_testing.conf 
> configured properly so its not trying to write to a MySQL database. Right 
> now its using a default that the 
> perl-perfSONAR_PS-Toolkit-SystemEnvironment should hopefully overwrite. 

You are right - perl-perfSONAR_PS-Toolkit-SystemEnvironment configures
the service in its post-installation script! Thanks a lot! Hope, I can
leave the service untouched for a while now :-)

Cheers,
Andreas
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