perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Andrew Lake <>]

Hi Casey,

Yes, since you are using a Central Archive the URLs you provided are correct.The URLs I used were assuming you wanted to talk to an archive on each host.

Thanks,

Andy

On Apr 29, 2015, at 6:31 PM, Casey Russell <> wrote:

Andy,

     Thank you for the reply, I'm a little slow looking into it, I've been busy with other projects.  I was able to force the automated .yaml generator (/opt/perfsonar_ps/mesh_config/bin/generate_gui_configuration) to create a new dashboard and remove the "My Sites" dashboard by deleting the .yaml that had the information from the older handbuilt version in it.  (it was a bit more in-depth than that, but I'll keep it brief).

     We use a central Measurement Archive for collecting our archive data.  Would I be correct in assuming, then that I should adjust all of these read_url lines as follows?

KSU: http://ps-dashboard.perfsonar.kanren.net/esmond/perfsonar/archive
KU: http://ps-dashboard.perfsonar.kanren.net/esmond/perfsonar/archive
WSU: http://ps-dashboard.perfsonar.kanren.net/esmond/perfsonar/archive
Bryant: http://ps-dashboard.perfsonar.kanren.net/esmond/perfsonar/archive

Casey Russell

Network Engineer

Kansas Research and Education Network

2029 Becker Drive, Suite 282

Lawrence, KS  66047

(785)856-9820  ext 9809

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Andrew Lake <> wrote:

Hi Casey,

It looks like maybe the “My Sites” dashboard is something you originally configured by hand so it is not getting overwritten by the mesh configuration software. Instead, the meshconfig builds a new dashboard called “KanREN Mesh” at http://ps-dashboard.perfsonar.kanren.net/maddash-webui/index.cgi?dashboard=KanREN%20Mesh. You can select that mesh from the “Dashboards” menu in the upper left. If you would like to make this the default mesh that displays when someone visits the page open /opt/maddash/maddash-webui/etc/config.json and change defaultDashboard to "KanREN Mesh”.

You’ll also notice that KanREN Mesh is all orange. You can fix that by changing the read_url of each measurement archive in mesh configuration file. It looks like right now it using an old format.  I believe what you want is the following read_url for each site:

KSU: http://ps-ksu-bw.perfsonar.kanren.net/esmond/perfsonar/archive
KU: http://ps-ku-bw.perfsonar.kanren.net/esmond/perfsonar/archive
WSU: http://ps-wsu-bw.perfsonar.kanren.net/esmond/perfsonar/archive
Bryant: http://ps-bryant-bw.perfsonar.kanren.net/esmond/perfsonar/archive

Hope that helps.

Thanks,
Andy

> On Apr 16, 2015, at 1:00 PM, Casey Russell <> wrote:
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> Brian,
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>      Thank you for the reply.  I last generated the .json for the mesh config on March 31, and the results for those hosts still show up in the "Throughput / Latency Graphs" in Perfsonar, and in the "My Sites dashboard" for Maddash.
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>      It can wait until he gets back if it needs to, so long as I know it's on the radar.
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> Casey Russell
> Network Engineer
> Kansas Research and Education Network
> 2029 Becker Drive, Suite 282
> Lawrence, KS  66047
> (785)856-9820 ext 9809
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> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Brian Tierney <> wrote:
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> Sorry for the slow reply.
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> The tests should disappear from the GUI in 7 days. How long has it been?
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> Andy is the expert on removing data from esmond, and he is on paternity leave for a couple weeks.
> I'll dig around the docs, but we might need to wait for his return.
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> On Thursday, April 16, 2015, Casey Russell <> wrote:
> Group,
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>      Should I assume from the silence that there is no way to remove these stale hosts?
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>      Or that there is no documentation to point me to?  :-)
>
> Casey Russell
> Network Engineer
> Kansas Research and Education Network
> 2029 Becker Drive, Suite 282
> Lawrence, KS  66047
> (785)856-9820 ext 9809
>
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> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Casey Russell <> wrote:
> Group,
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>      I thought it had been discussed here on list, and so I went back through some old discussions.  If the answer is in here, I'm not finding it.  I've got two nodes we've retired.  I really only used them during our testing phase while we were transitioning from version 3.3.x to 3.4.x  However, now their names and data are in my 3.4.x dashboard even though I ceased testing to them weeks ago.
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>      I've removed all mention of them from the meshconfig file (and the generated .json file).  However their lines are still in the dashboard.  And when I re-generate a new maddash .yaml file (using the automated procedure provided by PS), the hosts still appear in the front page "My sites" dashboard.
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>      Can anyone point me to documentation on how to properly exorcise a host and it's related data from your Perfsonar environment in the 3.4.x / Esmond world?
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> Thank you,
>
> Casey Russell
> Network Engineer
> Kansas Research and Education Network
> 2029 Becker Drive, Suite 282
> Lawrence, KS  66047
> (785)856-9820  ext 9809
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> Brian Tierney, http://www.es.net/tierney
> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), Berkeley National Lab
> http://fasterdata.es.net
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