perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Andrew Lake <>]

Hi George,

That could definitely be it. If this is the only host experiencing that 
problem and since I believe you use a central MA, could it just be a firewall 
causing the timeout?

Thanks,
Andy


On Mar 26, 2015, at 1:51 PM, "Uhl, George D. (GSFC-423.0)[SGT INC]" 
<>
 wrote:

> Andy,
> 
> In the regular_testing log file on the agent host that’s unable to
> transmit data to the central MA, I have the following repeating error
> message sequence:
> 
> 2015/03/26 13:25:13 (10072) ERROR> EsmondBase.pm:53
> perfSONAR_PS::RegularTesting::MeasurementArchives::EsmondBase::__ANON__ -
> Error writing metadata (500) 500 Timeout
> 2015/03/26 13:25:13 (10072) ERROR> MeasurementArchiveChild.pm:209
> perfSONAR_PS::RegularTesting::Master::MeasurementArchiveChild::handle_resul
> ts - Problem storing results: Error writing metadata: 500 Timeout
> 2015/03/26 13:25:13 (10072) ERROR> MeasurementArchiveChild.pm:125
> perfSONAR_PS::RegularTesting::Master::MeasurementArchiveChild::__ANON__ -
> Problem handling test results: Problem storing results: Error writing
> metadata: 500 Timeout at
> /opt/perfsonar_ps/regular_testing/bin/../lib/perfSONAR_PS/RegularTesting/Ma
> ster/MeasurementArchiveChild.pm line 122.
> 
> 
> Could this be an indication of the problem?
> 
> Thanks,
> George
> 
> On 3/25/15, 3:05 PM, "Uhl, George D. (GSFC-423.0)[SGT INC]"
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
>> Hi Andy,
>> 
>> In the statistics page that displays after I click on the on the orange
>> cell, I get this:
>> 
>> graphUrl: 
>> http://archive.eos.nasa.gov/serviceTest/graphWidget.cgi?url=http://archive
>> .
>> eos.nasa.gov/esmond/perfsonar/archive/&dest=edclxw41.cr.usgs.gov&source=es
>> d
>> is-ps.eosdis.nasa.gov
>> maUrl: http://archive.eos.nasa.gov/esmond/perfsonar/archive/
>> 
>> 
>> When I click on a cell with current data, I get this:
>> 
>> Count: 112
>> graphUrl: 
>> http://archive.eos.nasa.gov/serviceTest/graphWidget.cgi?url=http://archive
>> .
>> eos.nasa.gov/esmond/perfsonar/archive/&dest=nasatest2.asf.alaska.edu&sourc
>> e
>> =esdis-ps.eosdis.nasa.gov
>> Max: 4
>> Standard_Deviation: 0.6628955437552
>> Average: 0.330357142857143
>> maUrl: http://archive.eos.nasa.gov/esmond/perfsonar/archive/
>> Min: 0
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> George
>> 
>> On 3/23/15, 8:57 AM, "Andrew Lake" 
>> <>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi George,
>>> 
>>> A no_agent host means that it cannot initiate tests or register any data
>>> to an MA. All it should do it make both the top and the bottom of the box
>>> use the MA set for the host that has the agent. If you click on the
>>> orange box, on the page that loads the details of the check you should
>>> see a vertical tab labelled "Statistics". Click on that to expand it and
>>> verify it has the correct MA set for the maUrl displayed.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Andy
>>> 
>>> On Mar 19, 2015, at 1:52 PM, "Uhl, George D. (GSFC-423.0)[SGT INC]"
>>> <>
>>>  wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Andy,
>>>> 
>>>> I can run the tests by hand without a problem.  When I go to the
>>>> toolkit page of esdis-ps.eosdis.nasa.gov and display the throughput and
>>>> latency/loss graphs I have current data (see attached).  I verified
>>>> connectivity to the standalone MA over port 80 & 443.  In a mesh, which
>>>> hosts are reporting test results to the MA - the source, the destination
>>>> or both?  What happens if one of them is a no_agent host?
>>>> 
>>>> In my case I have two agent hosts testing with one no_agent host.  On
>>>> both agent hosts, the throughput/latency/loss graphs shows the source is
>>>> the no_agent host and the destination is the agent host.  Yet agent host
>>>> is able to send data to the central MA,it¹s displaying on the dashboard,
>>>> while the other is not.
>>>> 
>>>> I¹m not sure what log files will indicate the cause of the failure.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> George
>>>> 
>>>> From: Andrew Lake 
>>>> <>
>>>> Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 4:44 PM
>>>> To: George Uhl 
>>>> <>
>>>> Cc: perfsonar-user 
>>>> <>
>>>> Subject: Re: [perfsonar-user] Dashboard unable to retrieve data
>>>> 
>>>> Hi george,
>>>> 
>>>> Looking at the data it appears the OWAMP tests stopped working around
>>>> January 26th and the BWCTL tests ~January 23rd. You might want to double
>>>> check the test is still configured. Could also be a firewall change
>>>> maybe? If you run owping or bwctl by hand do the tests complete?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Andy
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Mar 18, 2015, at 9:42 AM, "Uhl, George D. (GSFC-423.0)[SGT INC]"
>>>> <>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have a situation where I¹m unable to retrieve data from OWAMP or
>>>>> BWCTL/iperf tests between two nodes on my dashboard.  The dashboard is
>>>>> run on a standalone centralized MA and I see test results data between
>>>>> these hosts in the esmond perfsonar archive.  One node,
>>>>> esdis-ps.eosdis.nasa.gov is participating in a mesh.  The other node,
>>>>> edclxw41.cr.usgs.gov is a no_agent mesh member.  This same no_agent
>>>>> member is running tests with another member, 207.151.223.222, and those
>>>>> results are being displayed in the dashboard.   I¹ve attached a gzipped
>>>>> copy of the esmond archive from the MA and a screen shot of the
>>>>> dashboard.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> George
>>>>> <MAesmondPSarchive.json.gz><Screen Shot 2015-03-18 at 9.37.00 AM.png>
>>>> 
>>>> <Screen Shot 2015-03-19 at 1.18.13 PM.png>
>>>