perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

["Remsik,Robert" <>]

Thank you I do have further questions about deployment.

After talking it over, I think I have three use-cases I'm trying to
accomplish.  I'm not sure if there is a better way to go about it, but
I'm hoping to satisfy them with two different perfsonar installs(one for
internal testing and one for external research testing) because I don't
know if it's possible do it all with one box or if it should be done
with one box.  Any advice you can offer would be appreciated - if I'm
trying to make the tool do something it's not supposed to do better to
find out sooner rather than later.  :)



-=- Use Case 1 -=-
An on site/off site user says the network is slow; we ask them to use
NDT to send us the results to see if there is a bottleneck between them
and the perfsonar box.  These can be researchers or standard desktop
users.

-=- Use Case 2 -=-
Setup OWAMP, BWCTL, NPAD, and tracerout tests to our ISP, and sister
universities running perfsonar so we can verify 10GB connectivity
between researchers.  This seems best to setup as individual tests from
our perfsonar box rather than a mesh because of the multiple ownership
domains.  And because one sister university may not care about
connectivity to another sister university.  

-=- Use Case 3 -=-
Setup OWAMP, BWCTL, and NPAD to run regular tests from key points(~2-200
depending on hardware pricepoint) in our network to a perfsonar box so
we can proactively say that not only is that section of the network
hooked up with 1Gb or 10Gb, but we can consistently and routinely pass
~900Mb/~9Gb of traffic across that link with no loss.  Since this is all
under one management domain a mesh deployment(coupled with maddash)
makes sense, except that it doesn't make as much sense for each
different section to talk to every other section; mostly we care about
to/from the central perfsonar testing box.

Thank you in advance,
Robert

On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 17:23 -0400, Michael Johnson wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> 
> Generally the best place to look for documentation is
> http://docs.perfsonar.net/
> 
> and it appears you already found the FAQ.
> 
> The best way to bring new boxes online depends on what you're trying to 
> accomplish, but many people use the netinstall to get started. Here's the 
> Quick Start guide:
> 
> http://docs.perfsonar.net/install_quick_start.html
> 
> I'm not aware of an "etiquette" guide or anything of that nature, but 
> mostly it's a matter of common sense (don't run excessive tests against one 
> host, etc). 
> 
> Let me know if you have further/more specific questions.
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael
> 
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 08:51:32PM +0000, Remsik,Robert wrote:
> >Hello!
> >
> >As I slowly making progress getting the different perf-sonar features
> >online, it occurs to me that there might be a best-practice guide for
> >bringing new boxes online and or being a good perfsonar citizen on the
> >net.  But my eyes did not find anything resembling as such when scouring
> >the flicking images on my monitor, so I thought I'd ask if there was
> >such a guide(s).
> >
> >Thank you in advance,
> >Robert
> >
> >-- 
> >Robert Remsik
> >Academic Computing and Networking Services
> >Colorado State University
> >(970) 491 7120
> >
> 

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Robert Remsik
Academic Computing and Networking Services
Colorado State University
(970) 491 7120