perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Byron Hicks <>]

I'm having a little trouble with the syntax on the
agent_configuration.conf file for a perfsonar node with multiple interfaces.

I have tests that are using two separate interfaces on the perfsonar node:

hstntx1w-ps1-eth0-300.nms.tx-learn.net
hstntx1w-ps1-eth0-301.nms.tx-learn.net

Without adding the address field on the agent_configuration.conf file,
it only picks up the tests for hstntx1w-ps1-eth0-300, not
hstntx1w-ps1-eth0-301, so I decided to try to use the address field in
the agent_configuration.conf file.

The configuration file for using the address field reads as follows:

## You can include one or more 'address' options to specify which address
## corresponds to this host. By default, the agent will attempt to guess the
## address using the hostname of the host, as well as the hostname IPs.

So I tried this first:

address         hstntx1w-ps1-eth0-300.nms.tx-learn.net
address         hstntx1w-ps1-eth0-301.nms.tx-learn.net

And I get the following error:

2015/02/04 11:46:50 (12937) ERROR> Agent.pm:351
perfSONAR_PS::MeshConfig::Agent::__configure_host - Multiple 'host'
elements associated with the addresses on this machine:
hstntx1w-ps1-eth0-300.nms.tx-learn.net,
hstntx1w-ps1-eth0-301.nms.tx-learn.net

So, I tried this:

address
hstntx1w-ps1-eth0-300.nms.tx-learn.net,hstntx1w-ps1-eth0-301.nms.tx-learn.net

and get this error:

2015/02/04 11:48:03 (13171) ERROR> Agent.pm:340
perfSONAR_PS::MeshConfig::Agent::__configure_host - Can't find any host
blocks associated with the addresses on this machine:
hstntx1w-ps1-eth0-300.nms.tx-learn.net,hstntx1w-ps1-eth0-301.nms.tx-learn.net

So, I thought it needed to be space delimited, so I tried:

address         hstntx1w-ps1-eth0-300.nms.tx-learn.net
hstntx1w-ps1-eth0-301.nms.tx-learn.net

and got the following error:

2015/02/04 11:49:44 (13453) ERROR> Agent.pm:340
perfSONAR_PS::MeshConfig::Agent::__configure_host - Can't find any host
blocks associated with the addresses on this machine:
hstntx1w-ps1-eth0-300.nms.tx-learn.net
hstntx1w-ps1-eth0-301.nms.tx-learn.net


So, what is the proper syntax for adding multiple addresses?

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Byron Hicks

Lonestar Education and Research Network