perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Brian Candler <>]

On 01/12/2014 13:29, Jason Zurawski wrote:
> > Q1: is it possible/reasonable/recommended to set up one central management 
> > node running perfsonar toolkit, and then install just bwctl-server and iperf 
> > and/or owamp on the other nodes?
> > >
> > >(I am even thinking of things like remote OSX workstations)
> > >
> > >I am testing toolkit 3.4.1 inside a VM, with two other hosts just running 
> > bwctl-server and iperf, and it appears to work; but I wonder if there are 
> > pitfalls I should be aware of.
> This mode of operation will work fine.  From the standpoint of the regular 
> testing infrastructure, it just needs a willing participant to bounce the 
> test off of - it doesn’t matter if its a full toolkit or just daemons.  Using 
> the ‘full’ toolkit normally comes down to a choice of how people want to 
> manage the infrastructure.  Some sites like having the machines be uniform in 
> software setup and choose to make the central host and the beacons all the 
> same, others may do what you are attempting and just go with minimal software 
> requirements.
In case anyone's interested: I've just updated the owamp in Homebrew to 
3.4, and added i2util and bwctl which were missing previously. This 
makes a Mac Mini a nice easy-to-install bandwidth testing endpoint :-)

I'm using the mid-range Mac Mini (2.6GHz i5, 8GB RAM) and it happily 
fills a gigabit: 941Mbps user throughput.

Regards,

Brian.