perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Lawrence Hitchens <>]

Good afternoon all, 

I am lost.. my project manager has assigned me a project out of our NOC to perform throughput, bandwidth, tracert tests...etc across different LAN and VLAN endpoints across our internal network. After doing some research, I stumbled upon perfsonar, and, at a first glance, thought this would be perfect for our use case. 

However, after reading some of the documentation, I think it is over-complicated and effectively killing ants with a sledgehammer. The multiple components (CA, MP, MA...etc) are vaguely documented and there are multiple ways to deploy them. 

Use case: I would like the MP's to be rasberry pi's bonded to interfaces directly on the switch supporting our VLANS (E.G. one on our VoIP vlan, one on our wireless..etc) How would I set up the MPs on the rasberry pis? One such similar project is documented here (http://meetings.internet2.edu/media/medialibrary/2014/10/26/20141029-Tierney-perfCube.pdf)

I also noticed that much of this project allows other facilities and campuses to test your deployment. This is out of the question as we are an MSP and cannot have external internet traffic traversing the firewall at all. 

Finally, I have found that there are two different major frameworks; (PerfSonar-ps and PerfSonar-MDM (as well as a less popular and less documented PS-MON

Is there anyone who could explain on a high level the minimal setup and configuration to sign into a terminal OR the web GUI and schedule/run tests to the designated endpoints?

Any help is GREATLY APPRECIATED!

-Corey