perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Alan Whinery <>]

Reference:
http://software.internet2.edu/

That said, you can easily compile bwctl (1.5.1 I think) and owamp (latest) on your Raspberries under Raspbian, and once you get the owampd.limits and bwctld.limits right  (hint - copy them from a toolkit node), each of them will allow a central pS-Performance Toolkit node (3.4.1 or latest) to schedule, execute, and archive the results of tests. Once they have tests against an MA (or whatever NewSpeak for MA is), You can ask the MA for test results visualize them as you like (http://www.perfsonar.net/project-information/creating-custom-clients/).

I really need to write up some experiences, and I'm currently just reaching the summit of Mount patch-libc-ghost-bug (not on the Raspberries, that was easy).  I did look at Pidora as an alternative, but its repo's Puppet client was going to force me to do a big upgrade, and I have other priorities at the moment.

-Alan

On 2/6/2015 8:49 AM, Brian Tierney wrote:

Hi Lawrence:

perfSONAR on ARM-based systems is not officially supported yet. We plan to add that in the next release.

The perfsonar-PS and perfSONAR-MDM projects have officially merged, and the new web sites are:

https://www.perfsonar.net/

https://docs.perfsonar.net/

I think your questions should all be answers by reading the documentation.

Please ignore all old web sites that refer to PS or MDM.

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Lawrence Hitchens <> wrote:

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

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