perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

["Pennington, Michael" <>]

Alright let me compare the two boxes and get them squared away, thanks for 
the guidance.

Mike Pennington
Network Engineer
Connecticut Education Network (CEN)
860-622-4566
 
www.cen.ct.gov

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-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Brown 
[mailto:]
 
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2015 11:41 AM
To: Pennington, Michael
Cc: 

Subject: Re: [perfsonar-user] [perfsonar-announce] IPV6 links gone from main 
page

Hey Michael,

perfsonar-storrs.cen.ct.gov resolves to 2607:f460:a001:13::2, but 
2607:f460:a001:13:a236:9fff:fe50:29b4 is on the box (possibly in addition to 
the perfsonar-storrs IPv6).

Cheers,
Aaron

> On May 5, 2015, at 11:37 AM, Pennington, Michael 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
> Ahh that makes sense.  Why does my other box show them separate still 
> though?
>  
> http://perfsonar-storrs.cen.ct.gov/toolkit/
>  
>  
>  
> Mike Pennington
> Network Engineer
> Connecticut Education Network (CEN)
> 860-622-4566
> 
> www.cen.ct.gov
>  
> CEN Conference May 15th 2015 in Hartford.  Register now- 
> http://bit.ly/1MmRn9Z
>  
>  
> From: Aaron Brown 
> [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2015 11:27 AM
> To: Pennington, Michael
> Cc: 
> 
> Subject: Re: [perfsonar-user] [perfsonar-announce] IPV6 links gone 
> from main page
>  
> Hey Michael,
>  
> perfsonar-hartford.cen.ct.gov has both the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses so 
> they just get merged into the hostname
>  
> Cheers,
> Aaron
>  
> On May 5, 2015, at 11:21 AM, Pennington, Michael 
> <>
>  wrote:
>  
> Here ya go
> 
> 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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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Brown 
> [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 3:41 PM
> To: Pennington, Michael
> Cc: 
> 
> Subject: Re: [perfsonar-user] [perfsonar-announce] IPV6 links gone 
> from main page
> 
> Could you make sure that  
> /opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/web/root/gui/services/etc/logger.conf has 
> DEBUG in it on line 1. If it doesn’t, replace INFO with DEBUG. Then, 
> go to the main page, and send us 
> /var/log/perfsonar/web_admin/web_admin.log
> 
> Cheers,
> Aaron
> 
> 
> On May 4, 2015, at 2:29 PM, Pennington, Michael 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
> Just to clarify this, the IPv6 tests work if I manually go to the link, ie:
> 
> http://[2607:f460:a001:9::2]:7123/
> 
> But when you go to the main page (http://[2607:f460:a001:9::2]/toolkit/) or 
> (http://perfsonar-hartford.cen.ct.gov/toolkit/) the IPV6 links don’t show 
> up anymore, just the IPv4 links.  Only thing I did was reboot it earlier.
> 
> Mike Pennington
> Network Engineer
> Connecticut Education Network (CEN)
> 860-622-4566
> 
> www.cen.ct.gov
> 
> CEN Conference May 15th 2015 in Hartford.  Register now- 
> http://bit.ly/1MmRn9Z
> 
> 
> From: Pennington, Michael
> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 1:33 PM
> To: 'Aaron Brown'
> Cc: 
> ''
> Subject: RE: [perfsonar-user] [perfsonar-announce] NDT 3.7.0 Now 
> Available
> 
> On an unrelated note, I seem to have lost IPV6 testing on my Hartford 
> perfsonar node, my other two are fine after the reboot.
> 
> https://perfsonar-hartford.cen.ct.gov/toolkit/
> 
> Nothing IPV6 shows up, even though IPV6 is setup correctly still, I can get 
> to this box via IPV6 from the outside and also get to IPV6 resources from 
> this box.  Not sure why they would disappear from the main toolkit page:
> 
> 
> 
> <image001.png>
> 
> My Storrs box is unaffected (http://perfsonar-storrs.cen.ct.gov/toolkit/):
> 
> 
> <image002.png>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pennington, Michael
> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 1:25 PM
> To: 'Aaron Brown'
> Cc: Remsik,Robert; 
> ;
>  
> ;
>  
> 
> 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 
> [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 1:16 PM
> To: Pennington, Michael
> Cc: Remsik,Robert; 
> ;
>  
> ;
>  
> 
> 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- 
> http://bit.ly/1MmRn9Z
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 
> 
> [mailto:]
>  On Behalf Of 
> Remsik,Robert
> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 1:02 PM
> To: 
> 
> Cc: 
> ;
>  
> ;
>  
> 
> 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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