perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Xu Chen <>]

Hi Dan & Hakan,

Thank you for your reply.  That’s what I am looking for. By the way, do you 
have any OPPD tutorials or documents I can read to start?

Best,

Chen 
> On Jul 2, 2015, at 12:47 PM, Hakan Calim 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
> Hi  Chen,
> 
> as far as I understood your problem what you can do is to use OPPD to start 
> your test. To send your request,  you can use every language which supports 
> HTTP and XML. So you send your test request to OPPD by HTTP with SOAP  
> message and get the result as a SOAP message. Hope this answers your 
> question.
> 
> Best regards,
> Hakan
> 
> Am 01.07.2015 19:40, schrieb Daniel Doyle:
>> Chen,
>> 
>> Currently there is no API for adding a new regular test in the standard 
>> toolkit. There is another effort in the pS community called "OPPD" which 
>> was designed to support on demand testing among other things. I do not 
>> believe there is any formal API documentation for this, however, so I'm 
>> forwarding your request to the developer list so that one of the devs that 
>> works on the OPPD suite can work with you.
>> 
>> -Dan
>> 
>> On Jun 29, 2015, at 11:46 AM, Xu Chen 
>> <>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello all,
>>> 
>>> I googled perfSONAR APIs and only found APIs for reading and writing data 
>>> from MA.
>>> 
>>> As I mentioned in previous emails,  is there a way to start a new regular 
>>> test (throughput, ping) in Python or other language? Does perfSONAR 
>>> provide such APIs?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Chen
>>>> On Jun 25, 2015, at 10:08 AM, Xu Chen 
>>>> <>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Dan,
>>>> 
>>>> I mean the regular test, such as throughput and ping.
>>>> 
>>>> Chen
>>>>> On Jun 25, 2015, at 10:03 AM, Daniel Doyle 
>>>>> <>
>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Chen,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Can you clarify what you mean by "start a measurement"? You want to 
>>>>> spin up an ad hoc test or create a new regular test or...?
>>>>> 
>>>>> -Dan
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Jun 25, 2015, at 9:58 AM, Xu Chen 
>>>>> <>
>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I have a question when starting a perfSONAR measurement. Does 
>>>>>> perfSONAR provide APIs to start a measurement in Python or other 
>>>>>> languages?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Chen
>>>>> Dan Doyle
>>>>> GlobalNOC Software Developer
>>>>> 1-812-856-3892
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>> Dan Doyle
>> GlobalNOC Software Developer
>> 1-812-856-3892
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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