perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Aaron Brown <>]

Hey Chad,

Ah, the toolkit front page is in a different location. To do that, you’ll 
need to edit 
/opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/web/root/gui/services/etc/web_admin.conf and put 
the “primary_interface” stuff in there.

Cheers,
Aaron

On Nov 18, 2014, at 2:34 PM, Chad Kotil 
<>
 wrote:

> I did try setting this for each of the 'local services', and also tried
> setting it as a global. but neither of these changes seemed to change
> the Primary Address.
> 
> This is what I'm trying to change, on the front page of the toolkit UI:
> 
> 
> Communities This Host Participates In
> Host Status
> Primary Address       my.host.some.domain
> MTU   1500
> NTP Status    
> Synced
> Globally registered   
> No
> 
> --Chad
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/18/14, 1:38 PM, Aaron Brown wrote:
>> Hey Chad,
>> 
>> Can you try setting the “primary_interface          eth0” or whatever the 
>> primary interface is? I’m not sure if that does what you want, or if you’d 
>> like something else.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Aaron
>> 
>> On Nov 18, 2014, at 12:55 PM, Chad Kotil 
>> <>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello Perfsonar-Users,
>>> After updating to 3.4 on a multi homed test point I am now unable to
>>> tell the toolkit UI which interface to use as the primary address. It
>>> just seems to choose the default interface. In the past there was a
>>> file, external_addresses, that could be use to tune things closer to how
>>> I want them. I have read this file is no longer used:
>>> http://www.perfsonar.net/about/faq/#Q70
>>> 
>>> I've already set allow_internal_addresses in
>>> /opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/web/root/gui/services/etc/web_admin.conf
>>> 
>>> and have tried setting things like:
>>> external_address=
>>> default_accesspoint=
>>> default_ipv4_address=
>>> default_ipv6_address=
>>> default_accesspoint_iface=
>>> default_ipv4_address_iface=
>>> default_ipv6_address_iface=
>>> default_iface_speed=10000000000
>>> default_iface_mtu=9000
>>> 
>>> I've also tried to override settings in ls_registration_daemon.conf.
>>> 
>>> But nothing has worked so far.
>>> 
>>> How can I tell the toolkit to use another interface in 3.4?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> --Chad
>