perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Aaron Brown <>]

Hey Ty,

To have the bwctl tests use iperf3, you can use the “tool” test parameter to 
set it to whatever. For bwping/owamp, the mesh configuration theoretically 
supports an “interval” option, but the current regular testing generator 
doesn’t support it. In the interim, if you add “force_bwctl_owamp     1” to 
the agent_configuration.conf, it’ll generate a “streaming” version of 
bwping/owamp.

The esmond bits aren’t supported currently because of password-based 
authentication limitations (i.e. to have the mesh configuration generate the 
regular_testing.conf, you’d need to include the password in the mesh config 
which would be … problematic). Currently, we suggest manually configuring 
those bits in the regular_testing.conf e.g. 
https://perfsonar-ps.googlecode.com/git/perfSONAR_PS-Toolkit/etc/default_service_configs/regular_testing.conf
 is our default configuration for the Toolkit, and we fill in the API key as 
needed.

Cheers,
Aaron

> On Jan 27, 2015, at 4:58 PM, Ty Bell 
> <>
>  wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> I've been thinking about using mesh config to create my
> regular_testing.conf files, but I'm hitting a snag adapting my config
> to fit the example.conf. Adding the esmond bits and tests like
> 'bwping/owamp' and 'bwctl/iperf3' doesn't seem to be supported. Are
> there newer packages I might've missed?
> 
> This is what I installed
> perl-perfSONAR_PS-MeshConfig-Shared-3.4-15.pSPS.noarch
> perl-perfSONAR_PS-MeshConfig-Agent-3.4-15.pSPS.noarch
> perl-perfSONAR_PS-MeshConfig-JSONBuilder-3.4-15.pSPS.noarch
> 
> TestParameters.pm only included the old tests
> 
>       if ($description->{type} eq "traceroute") {
>       elsif ($description->{type} eq "perfsonarbuoy/owamp") {
>       elsif ($description->{type} eq "perfsonarbuoy/bwctl") {
>       elsif ($description->{type} eq "pinger") {
> 
> - -- 
> 
> 
> Ty Bell
> Systems Engineer
> Indiana University GlobalNOC
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