perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Aaron Brown <>]

Ok, I see what’s going on (reproduced it locally). I’ll have a fix for you to 
test a little bit.

Cheers,
Aaron

> On May 4, 2015, at 1:51 PM, Pennington, Michael 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
> From what it looks like when restarting it on a reboot, fakewww just never 
> actually starts after perfsonar boots up:
> 
> Stopping web100srv:                                        [  OK  ]
> Stopping fakewww:                                          [FAILED]
> Starting web100srv:                                        [  OK  ]
> Starting fakewww:                                          [  OK  ]
> 
> 
> 
> Mike Pennington
> Network Engineer
> Connecticut Education Network (CEN)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pennington, Michael 
> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 1:25 PM
> To: 'Aaron Brown'
> Cc: Remsik,Robert; 
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> Subject: RE: [perfsonar-user] [perfsonar-announce] NDT 3.7.0 Now Available
> 
> Sure - what's the easiest way to get this over to you?  I've rebooted all 
> of my perfsonar boxes multiple times and it happens every time so pretty 
> easy to reproduce with a reboot.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Brown 
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> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 1:16 PM
> To: Pennington, Michael
> Cc: Remsik,Robert; 
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> Subject: Re: [perfsonar-user] [perfsonar-announce] NDT 3.7.0 Now Available
> 
> Hey Michael,
> 
> Would it be possible to get the output from when NDT is initially started 
> during boot?
> 
> Cheers,
> Aaron
> 
>> On May 4, 2015, at 1:08 PM, Pennington, Michael 
>> <>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks.  I was going to mention that running those steps fixed my issue as 
>> well, but when you reboot the issue comes back so on every reboot those 
>> steps need to be completed.    
>> 
>> Mike Pennington
>> Network Engineer
>> Connecticut Education Network (CEN)
>> 860-622-4566
>> 
>> www.cen.ct.gov
>> 
>> CEN Conference May 15th 2015 in Hartford.  Register now- 
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>> Remsik,Robert
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>> Subject: Re: [perfsonar-user] Re: [perfsonar-announce] NDT 3.7.0 Now 
>> Available
>> 
>> For me, I made a bash script that's run by rc.local upon reboot.  I'm 
>> running RC code though so I'm not certain this applies to the latest code 
>> available by yum.  Mine still says that NDT is not running but the NDT 
>> site still functions.
>> 
>> -----
>> #!/bin/bash
>> 
>> service ndt stop
>> service httpd stop
>> service httpd start
>> service ndt start
>> -----
>> 
>> And, yes, thank you guys very much.  :)
>> 
>> Robert Remsik
>> Colorado State University
>> 
>> On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 09:12 -0500, 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 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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Aaron Brown 
>>> <>
>>> 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 
>>>> <>
>>>> 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 
>>>>> <>
>>>>> 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 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Aaron
>>>>> 
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