perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

["Andrew Lake" <>]

Hi Jeremy,

As my previous note said, it happens if you have an owampd install that was initially done in early 2013 or prior and you never set the receive_ports in your regular_testing.conf. You just need to clean-up the offending line in /opt/perfsonar_ps/regular_testing/etc/regular_testing.conf to correct the issue. The root cause should be fixed in the RPM that went out yesterday after Roderick’s initial note (version 3.5.0.1). Unfortunately it looks like your systems pulled down that update before your closest mirror had a chance to grab that version. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Hope that helps,

Andy

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Jeremy Palmer <> wrote:

I have the exact same issue on 13 out of 20 perfsonar nodes this morning. Trying to figure out why some didn't have this issue while most did.
What config file is it trying to parse when it throws the "Line * malformed" error?

Jeremy Palmer
Senior Network Engineer
ViaWest, Inc.
Office: 720.891.1045
Fax: 303-874-5236
http://www.viawest.com

On 9/29/2015 1:16 AM, Roderick Mooi wrote:

Hi Andy and team

After restarting my updated 3.5. hosts the regular testing service is shown as not running. In the ‘regular_testing.log’ file I get the following error:

2015/09/29 09:01:36 (8074) ERROR> ConfigFile.pm:101 perfSONAR_PS::RegularTesting::Utils::ConfigFile::parse_file - Line 309 malformed
2015/09/29 09:01:36 (8074) ERROR> daemon:84 main:: - Problem parsing configuration file: Line 309 malformed

line numbers vary per host.

Please advise.

Otherwise looking good - great job!

Best regards,

Roderick

 

On 28 Sep 2015, at 6:38 PM, Andrew Lake <> wrote:

Dear perfSONAR Community,

The final version of perfSONAR 3.5 is now available! Existing users may run "yum update" to get this new release. Alternatively, if you have automatic updates enabled, you should get the update within 24 hours. It is recommended, though not required, that you reboot the host after the update to ensure you are running the latest packages and kernel. For new Toolkit installs, you may find our ISOs at the following link:

http://downloads.perfsonar.net/toolkit/

For more information on install options, updating and using the software please see http://docs.perfsonar.net.

About 3.5:

Version 3.5 is intended to be an important first step toward increasing the usability, automation and ease of large-scale deployments for existing perfSONAR users. Read more here: https://www.internet2.edu/news/detail/8866/ Some specific changes in this release include the following:

- A brand new web interface that addresses many of the UI concerns voiced in the community over the past few years. You will be presented with this interface the next time you visit the toolkit after the update is applied. See the documentation for some screenshots of the new interface: http://docs.perfsonar.net/install_config_first_time.html#accessing-the-web-interface. For this release you will also be able to visit the previous interface by navigating to http://hostaddress/toolkit-old in your web browser.

- Support for alternative installation methods to the Toolkit ISO on both CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu. This allows for more flexibility in deployment, especially for large deployments and/or those running lower cost hardware. See http://docs.perfsonar.net/install_options.html in our documentation for more details.

- Enhanced central management and “auto-configuration” features to aid in the deployment of a large number of hosts. See our documentation at http://docs.perfsonar.net/#managing-multiple-perfsonar-hostsfor more details.

In addition to above there are of course the usual round of bug fixes and performance improvements that go hand-in-hand with a release. Thank you to all in the community who helped us to identify and solve those over the past few months. Full release notes can be found at http://www.perfsonar.net/release-notes/version-3-5/

Also, please take this chance to review our hardware advice page: http://www.perfsonar.net/deploy/hardware-selection/hardware-advice/. Version 3.5 should NOT introduce any significant hardware resource requirements over version 3.4, but as test meshes continue to grow many of the requirements such as memory, are becoming “stricter” minimum requirements than in the past so this is a good opportunity to verify your setup. In particular, note that we recommend a minimum of 4GB of RAM for a perfSONAR Toolkit host.

As always, please let the perfSONAR team know if you have any questions and we look forward to your feedback.

Thank you,

The perfSONAR Development Team

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