perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Rich Sudlow <>]

On 05/04/2015 10:12 AM, Casey Russell wrote:
> Group,
>
>       In case others run into the same problem I had after the auto-updates 
> this
> weekend.  After the NDT updates were applied, my local services page showed 
> NDT
> "Not Running".  The service had been running on Friday (albeit with the older,
> broken NDT).
>
>       I tried going to the "Enabled Services" page and simply clicking "Save" 
> to
> restart all of the running services, but this had no affect.  NDT was still
> stuck in a "Not Running" state.  I finally took a cue from the announcement
> email sent over the weekend and restarted the services by hand.  I first ran
> "service ndt restart" and then "service httpd restart" on each of the affected
> boxes, and everything returned to normal, and our boxes are now running the
> updated version.

Thanks - This was very helpful!

> Thanks to the development team for what appears to be a much improved NDT.
>
> 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 Mon, May 4, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Aaron Brown 
> <
> <mailto:>>
>  wrote:
>
>     Hey Roderick,
>
>     That error shouldn’t be a problem. I’ll put a fix in to avoid it in the
>     future though.
>
>     Cheers,
>     Aaron
>
> >     On May 4, 2015, at 3:15 AM, Roderick Mooi 
> > <
> >     
> > <mailto:>>
> >  wrote:
> >
> >     Hi Aaron
> >
> >     I got this error on two of our servers (the rest worked fine):
> >
> >     Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure in rpm package
> >     ndt-server-3.7.0-8.el6.x86_64
> >     web100srv is stopped
> >     fakewww is stopped
> >     chown: cannot access `/var/log/ndt/fakewww*log': No such file or directory
> >     warning: %post(ndt-server-3.7.0-8.el6.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit 
> > status 1
> >
> >     Please advise.
> >
> >     Thanks,
> >
> >     Roderick
> >
> > >     On 01 May 2015, at 10:00 PM, Aaron Brown 
> > > <
> > >     
> > > <mailto:>>
> > >  wrote:
> > >
> > >     Hi All,
> > >
> > >     We would like to announce the availability of NDT version 3.7.0 This is a
> > >     major new release, that contains, among other things:
> > >
> > >      - Adds support for Java 8 to the java client
> > >      - Adds a WebSockets-based client, allowing modern web browsers to
> > >     perform NDT tests without requiring the use of any plugins
> > >      - Includes a substantially redesign of the Web GUI
> > >      - Support for using Apache instead of ‘fakewww’
> > >      - Improves the security of fakewww for those who still use it
> > >
> > >     A source tarball is available at
> > >     http://software.internet2.edu/sources/ndt/ndt-3.7.0.tar.gz
> > >
> > >     You can find RPMs at the Internet2 RPM repository at
> > >     http://software.internet2.edu/ . Existing users that have auto-updates
> > >     configured should download the changes in the next 24 hours. Those
> > >     without auto-updates can run 'yum update' by hand to get the latest
> > >     version. To use Apache instead of fakewww, install the package
> > >     ‘ndt-server-apache’ using yum, and run “service ndt restart” and “service
> > >     httpd restart”.
> > >
> > >     Thanks again to all our testers and those that provided feedback.
> > >
> > >     If you have any questions or concerns, please direct them to
> > >     
> > >
> > >  
> > > <mailto:>
> > >
> > >     Cheers,
> > >     Aaron
> > >
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