perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

["Remsik,Robert" <>]

https://perfsonar1.research-lan.colostate.edu/maddash-webui/index.cgi?dashboard=FRGP%20Mesh

That would be great!  

Currently I'm trying to troubleshoot 3 things.

1) Why perfsonar1.research-lan.colostate.edu and perfsonar uwyo.edu
gives the error of unable to contact MA.

2) Why the tests are split across both halves of the dashboard; for
example perfsonar1.research-lan.colostate.edu and the two frgp.net boxes
have a green top, and then the frgp boxes to perfsonar have a green
bottom.  Does that reflect who setup the test and for them to be both
green boxes we'd both need to be testing to each other?

3) I thought I had this setup to generate .jsons and then consume
the .jsons but when I try to add/remove people I have to do it by hand;
as the files don't seem to get updated when I run the generating
commands don't seem to update the files I'm expecting.  I followed the
FAQ's search/replace for the MA issue in the .conf files; could that be
what's causing the .json  and .yaml's to not be generated/consumed
properly? 

Script I use to update the files by hand
#!/bin/bash

echo "Generating .json configs"
/opt/perfsonar_ps/mesh_config/bin/build_json -o /var/www/html/frgp.json
frgp.conf
/opt/perfsonar_ps/mesh_config/bin/build_json
-o /var/www/html/research.json research.conf

echo "Generating .yaml config"
/opt/perfsonar_ps/mesh_config/bin/generate_configuration

echo "Restarting Services"
service maddash-server restart


Thank you very much in advance,
Robert


On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 07:43 -0400, Andrew Lake wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> If you need help with the MA issue feel free to send me the link to
> your dashboard and I can take a look.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy
> 
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Remsik,Robert
> <>
>  wrote:
>         Thank you!  Turns out I needed to restart the maddash-server
>         service to
>         import the json.  Now that I've got the dashboards I just need
>         to
>         decrypt the 'Unable to contact MA' error message.
>         
>         One bug down, another one to go.  :)
>         
>         Robert,
>         
>         
>         On Mon, 2015-05-18 at 09:27 -0400, Andrew Lake wrote:
>         > > On May 15, 2015, at 7:12 PM, Remsik,Robert
>         
> <>
>  wrote:
>         > >
>         > > Hello!
>         > >
>         > > I'm trying to setup maddash instance to have 2 dashboards,
>         one for our
>         > > sister research universities(manual setup) and one for our
>         local ISP
>         > > organizations(mesh configuration).  Each dashboard will
>         have a grid for
>         > > OWAMP and BWCTL.  The idea being able to tell if any any
>         site is having
>         > > issues at a glance.  I want to use the mesh for our local
>         ISP group so
>         > > we hand .json URL out and people can be auto-configured
>         for all of our
>         > > local ISP collaborators with minimal effort.  Before I
>         delve down this
>         > > road too far; I wanted to ask if this would this be
>         considered good
>         > > practice or is there a better way to go about what I'm
>         trying to do?
>         >
>         > That should be fine. You can combine manual and automated
>         meshes in the same file. When the generate_gui_configuration
>         script runs it maintains any manually defined meshes so it
>         should not be an issue.
>         >
>         >
>         > >
>         > > I got started on this road because the box I'm publishing
>         my .json from
>         > > doesn't seem to want to subscribe to that same .json.  I
>         haven't figured
>         > > out if it's a same-source conflict or if it's something in
>         the way I
>         > > have the configs setup.
>         >
>         > You should be able to use the JSON on the same machine where
>         it is published. If you need any help debugging please feel
>         free to send any error messages generated by the
>         generate_configuration and/or generate_gui_configuration
>         commands.
>         >
>         >
>         > >
>         > > Thank you in advance,
>         > >
>         > > --
>         > > Robert Remsik
>         > > Academic Computing and Networking Services
>         > > Colorado State University
>         > > (970) 491 7120
>         > > 
> 
>         >
>         
>         --
>         Robert Remsik
>         Academic Computing and Networking Services
>         Colorado State University
>         (970) 491 7120
>         
> 
>         
> 
> 

-- 
Robert Remsik
Academic Computing and Networking Services
Colorado State University
(970) 491 7120