perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Andrew Lake <>]

Hi,

You need to restart maddash (/sbin/service maddash-server restart). After the restart you will need to wait for the check to run again to get the new URL.

Thanks,

Andy

On Mar 5, 2015, at 2:36 PM, Zhi-Wei Lu <> wrote:

I edited maddash.yaml file to use relative URL for graphURL, I restarted httpd and cassandra,  but I am still having the same https problem of displaying graph, what daemon do I need to restart?

 

Thank you.

 

Zhi-Wei Lu

IET-CR-Network Operations Center

University of California, Davis

(530) 752-0155

 

From: Andrew Lake [mailto:andy@es.net] 
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 10:01 AM
To: Florio, Christopher N
Cc: Zhi-Wei Lu; Aaron Brown;
Subject: Re: [perfsonar-user] Mesh generation error

 

Hi,

 

The problem is because the graph is an iframe and you have specified a full URL to the graph using htttp but you are opening the page in https. Firefox does not like when you open a page with https and then have just plain http in an iframe. This goes back to Aaron's earlier question about whether you are using the MeshConfig or you build maddash.yaml by hand. There is an easy fix for this which is to make graphURL relative URL. If you edited maddash.yaml by hand change each instance of:

 

graphUrl: "http://grx.noc.ucdavis.edu/serviceTest/graphWidget.cgi?url="%maUrl&dest=%row&source=%col"

 

to 

 

graphUrl: "/serviceTest/graphWidget.cgi?url="%maUrl&dest=%row&source=%col"

 

If you used the MeshConfig it should be defaulting to the relative URL, so I am going to assume the MaDDash config was done by hand.

 

Thanks,

Andy

 

 

 

 

On Mar 5, 2015, at 12:53 PM, "Florio, Christopher N" <> wrote:

Yep. Some browsers got pissed at the mixed http/https. My theory is that it's due to the self signed ssl certificate. I've ordered a real ssl certificate for my host, and when I have that I'll see if that clears up that. 

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 5, 2015, at 12:37 PM, Zhi-Wei Lu <> wrote:

I need to use “force_bidirectional” option in configuring mesh.conf file, a tip gleaned from John Hess’ CENIC dashboard configuration. Now bi-directional band width test is working. I need to use http to see graph, thanks Chris!

 

Thank you all for your help.

 

Zhi-Wei Lu

IET-CR-Network Operations Center

University of California, Davis

(530) 752-0155

 

From:  [] On Behalf Of Zhi-Wei Lu
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2015 8:46 AM
To: Florio, Christopher N
Cc: Aaron Brown; 
Subject: RE: [perfsonar-user] Mesh generation error

 

You are right, I can get graph out via http but not with https!  Somehow, my new tests configured with mesh does not have both forward and reverse band width tests.

 

Zhi-Wei Lu

IET-CR-Network Operations Center

University of California, Davis

(530) 752-0155

 

From: Florio, Christopher N [] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 3:34 PM
To: Zhi-Wei Lu
Cc: Aaron Brown; 
Subject: Re: [perfsonar-user] Mesh generation error

 

Ok so try hitting the page with http and not https. 

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 4, 2015, at 4:38 PM, Zhi-Wei Lu <> wrote:

Hi Chris,

 

I doubled the “cellSize”, “cellPadding”, and “tetBlockSize” from their respective default values in this file:

/opt/maddash/maddash-webui/etc/config.json

 

Since I have a small mesh, this makes the visual a little better.

 

I have restarted the regular testing server a few time already, but when I click on any square (green or orange/green), I don’t get any graph.

 

Thanks.

 

Zhi-Wei Lu

IET-CR-Network Operations Center

University of California, Davis

(530) 752-0155

 

From: Florio, Christopher N [] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 12:00 PM
To: Zhi-Wei Lu
Cc: Aaron Brown; 
Subject: Re: [perfsonar-user] Mesh generation error

 

Hey nice grid, how did you get the squares to be that large?  Mine are really tiny.

 

As for the orange squares, it looks like your tests are working, what I would do is go to Settings, Server Settings and schedule a refresh.  You need to set an admin user before you can do that.  The steps are listed here for creating the admin user - 

 

http://software.es.net/maddash/admin_ui.html

 

Thanks!

 

Chris 

UNC Chapel Hill

 

 

On Mar 4, 2015, at 1:53 PM, Zhi-Wei Lu <> wrote:

Thanks, Aaron!

 

I did what you suggested and it worked.  Now I change the subject a bit.  My maddash setup using the mesh configured hosts, I didn’t get anything in the “Graph”.  If I get to individual perfsonar web page, I can get graphs displayed between these hosts.  I also noticed that it appears that the band width tests going only one way rather than having both band width and “reverse” band width tests.

 

Here is my maddash info:

maddash-server-1.2-4.noarch

maddash-1.2-1.noarch

maddash-webui-1.2-3.noarch

 

my maddash page is at:

https://grx.noc.ucdavis.edu/maddash-webui/

 

Thank you very much for your help

 

Zhi-Wei Lu

IET-CR-Network Operations Center

University of California, Davis

(530) 752-0155

 

From: Aaron Brown [] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2015 12:46 PM
To: Zhi-Wei Lu
Cc: 
Subject: Re: [perfsonar-user] Mesh generation error

 

Hi,

 

Do you have multiple “host” elements in your mesh that have the IP addresses you list below? If so, you should combine them into 1 ‘host’ object with multiple addresses.

 

Cheers,

Aaron

 

On Mar 3, 2015, at 3:17 PM, Zhi-Wei Lu <> wrote:

 

Hi all,

 

I am setting a local mesh for our perfsonar servers (five in all). I am encountering problem on my last server which happens to have two interfaces and v4/v6 addresses.  I would appreciate suggestion to fix the mesh generation problem here.  I am running:

 

perl-perfSONAR_PS-MeshConfig-Agent-3.4-15.pSPS.noarch

perl-perfSONAR_PS-MeshConfig-Shared-3.4-15.pSPS.noarch

perl-perfSONAR_PS-MeshConfig-JSONBuilder-3.4-15.pSPS.noarch

 

Mesh Error:

  Mesh: UC Davis Mesh

  Host: 

  Error: Multiple 'host' elements associated with the addresses on this machine: melange-v6.noc.ucdavis.edu, melange.noc.ucdavis.edu, 2607:f810:330:1ffd::f, melange-owamp-v4.noc.ucdavis.edu, 128.120.80.78, melange-v4.noc.ucdavis.edu, 2607:f810:330:1ffe:0:0:0:f, melange-owamp-v6.noc.ucdavis.edu, 2607:f810:330:1ffe::f, 128.120.80.74, 2607:f810:330:1ffd:0:0:0:f

 

Thank you.

 

Zhi-Wei Lu

IET-CR-Network Operations Center

University of California, Davis

(530) 752-0155

 

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