perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Andrew Lake <>]

Hi Eric,

As an FYI there is a a new 3.4.2 RPM in the testing branch that should fix 
the issue. Your system should grab it overnight if auto-updates are enabled. 
Otherwise you can grab it with yum update. 

Thanks,
Andy


On Mar 10, 2015, at 9:50 AM, Andrew Lake 
<>
 wrote:

> This list is the right place to do that so please let us know if you find 
> anything else. We hope to have the issue you described addressed shortly. 
> Since this thread is now open, I will let you know when we think we have a 
> fix so you can test if you decide to stick with 3.4.2-rc1. 
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy
> 
> 
> On Mar 10, 2015, at 9:40 AM, "Warnke, Eric E" 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
>> That does appear to be the case, in my hast I grabbed the iso from the
>> front page of perfonar.net which does appear to be the beta.  Where should
>> I be posting feedback for this version?
>> 
>> -Eric
>> 
>> 
>> On 3/10/15, 9:31 AM, "Andrew Lake" 
>> <>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> It sounds like you are using 3.4.2-rc1 which is NOT a production version,
>>> its the current beta release. We are debugging this exact problem at the
>>> moment. If it was intentional that you are using the beta, please sit
>>> tight, we hope to have a fix soon. If it was unintentional you got the
>>> beta, please see http://software.internet2.edu/pS-Performance_Toolkit/
>>> for the latest released version.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Andy
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mar 10, 2015, at 8:58 AM, "Warnke, Eric E" 
>>> <>
>>>  wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> We are rolling out a basic perfSonar net and have run into a snag.
>>>> Things
>>>> were working as expected for a few days and then Saturday morning at 1am
>>>> regular testing stopped.  I double checked everything and restarted it
>>>> on
>>>> Sunday and Monday at 1am everything stopped.  I tried again yesterday to
>>>> confirm and restart everything and like clockwork it stopped at 1am this
>>>> morning.
>>>> 
>>>> Hardware is shuttle DS437, 30GB mSATA SSD disk, 2GB ram, and dual 1g
>>>> ethernet.  Fresh install of the toolkit last week via the netinstall.
>>>> They are on the low-end of the spectrum, but I can find no evidence that
>>>> the hardware is being stressed.
>>>> 
>>>> The only change between it working and not working were the following
>>>> packages installed on Friday.
>>>> 
>>>> perl-perfSONAR_PS-Toolkit-SystemEnvironment-3.4.2-8.pSPS.noarch Fri 06
>>>> Mar
>>>> 2015 03:37:56 AM EST
>>>> perl-perfSONAR_PS-Toolkit-3.4.2-8.pSPS.noarch Fri 06 Mar 2015 03:37:55
>>>> AM
>>>> EST
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Another oddity that I'm finding is that while the service_watcher is
>>>> being
>>>> run on a regular basis, it doesn't seem to be doing anything.  When run
>>>> manually things return to normal.
>>>> 
>>>> Log for service watcher seems to indicate it is restarting these
>>>> services,
>>>> but it would seem that it's failing in a way that is not reported since
>>>> the error log is empty.
>>>> 
>>>> 2015/03/05 01:05:01 (6532) INFO> service_watcher:105 main:: - Regular
>>>> restart for OWAMP.
>>>> 2015/03/06 01:05:01 (14909) INFO> service_watcher:105 main:: - Regular
>>>> restart for OWAMP.
>>>> 2015/03/07 01:05:01 (23858) INFO> service_watcher:105 main:: - Regular
>>>> restart for OWAMP.
>>>> 2015/03/07 01:05:06 (23858) INFO> service_watcher:105 main:: - Regular
>>>> restart for perfSONAR-PS Regular Testing.
>>>> 2015/03/08 01:05:01 (28284) INFO> service_watcher:105 main:: - Regular
>>>> restart for OWAMP.
>>>> 2015/03/08 01:05:06 (28284) INFO> service_watcher:105 main:: - Regular
>>>> restart for perfSONAR-PS Regular Testing.
>>>> 2015/03/09 01:05:01 (5198) INFO> service_watcher:105 main:: - Regular
>>>> restart for OWAMP.
>>>> 2015/03/09 01:05:06 (5198) INFO> service_watcher:105 main:: - Regular
>>>> restart for perfSONAR-PS Regular Testing.
>>>> 2015/03/10 01:05:01 (10371) INFO> service_watcher:105 main:: - Regular
>>>> restart for OWAMP.
>>>> 2015/03/10 01:05:06 (10371) INFO> service_watcher:105 main:: - Regular
>>>> restart for perfSONAR-PS Regular Testing.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Any ideas?  I have turned off automatic updates for the time being to
>>>> see
>>>> if that is the root cause of if it's a problem with the service_watcher
>>>> script.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Eric Warnke
>>>> Research IT
>>>> SUNY at Albany
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>

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