perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Daniel Doyle <>]

NDT results are not stored to the best of my knowledge anywhere - it is ad hoc testing designed for interactive, one time use debugging or investigating. The tests that do get stored are referred to as "regular tests" that happen on some regular period and thus can be graphed and used to observe where changes occur over time.

I'm not sure I quite understand the second question about confidential data. If the toolkit is installed on a server with a publicly accessible IP address, the test results are by default available to anyone that knows where to look. Certain bits such as configuring the tests and changing information about the node is by default restricted to requiring an authorized web user to access. Any or all of this can be changed by modifying the apache configuration, though doing so is beyond the scope of the pS support team. I know of at least a few persons/organizations that have restricted their toolkit instances via SSOs or even just basic apache authentication.

-Dan

On Sep 30, 2015, at 3:34 PM, Sultan Sharief <> wrote:

Dear Support,

Thanks for the information provided 

I am running NDT test aganist perfsonar toolkit server (from browser as well as command line) i can see the results on the screen , where the test result stores in server for NDT and how to graph from central system?

Is the installation of perfsonar locally means the data is confidential without going outside?

Regards,

Sultan

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Daniel Doyle <> wrote:

On Sep 30, 2015, at 8:50 AM, Brian Tierney <> wrote:

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 5:08 AM, Garnizov, Ivan (RRZE) <> wrote:

Dear Sultan,

 

Here are some references:

 

How can I publish central configuration file, so that raspberry pie will read and start sending measurements to particular server?

http://docs.perfsonar.net/multi_overview.html

 

How to configure raspberry pie to send data to particular server?

http://docs.perfsonar.net/multi_ma_install.html

“As an alternative, you may decide to separate your measurement hosts and archive host(s). This allows a single “centralized” archive host to store results from multiple measurement hosts. A few use cases where this may be desirable are as follows”

The centralized MA is what you are looking for it sounds like. If you're going to be deploying a lot of these, I would suggest looking into the IP based authentication since it allows for a workflow with fewer steps when turning up these smaller devices. The username/API key approach is still perfectly fine as well, there's just another step when setting up the device.

 

How to manage the raspberry pie from central server?

Please clarify your expectations here! We have recently published automation configuration procedure for central management. http://docs.perfsonar.net/multi_puppet_overview.html

I have never worked with the “raspberry pie”, but I doubt you would like to apply Central configuration management on these.

The University of Hawaii uses puppet for this.

 

 

What about reporting?

Again depending on the understanding for reporting one has, you could argue about these sources, but:

Reporting through Nagios: https://github.com/perfsonar/nagios/blob/master/README.md

Monitoring through MADDASH: 

http://docs.perfsonar.net/manage_extra_tools.html#maddash

To add to this, if you have the results being sent to a MA that has the full toolkit installed on it, the results from these tests will show up in the regular test results as if you had configured them there. The MA actually doesn't care what the src/dst was of the tests - it will show everything that it knows about. You can click and get the same graphs as usual.

 

Best regards,

Ivan

 

-----Original Message-----
From:  [mailto:] On Behalf Of Sultana Sharief Shaik
Sent: Mittwoch, 30. September 2015 06:30
To: Szymon Trocha; Sultan Sharief
Cc: 
Subject: RE: [perfsonar-user] Raspberry Node Setup!

 

Dear Trocha,

 

Thanks a lot for your valuable feedback

 

Please note that I have installed perfsonar toolkit on centos  and testpoint on Rasberry pie2

 

How can I publish central configuration file, so that raspberry pie will read and start sending measurements to particular server?

 

How to configure raspberry pie to send data to particular server?

 

How to manage the raspberry pie from central server?

 

What about reporting?

 

Regards,

 

Sultan

 

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----

From: Szymon Trocha []

Sent: 29 September, 2015 03:28 PM

To: Sultan Sharief

Cc: ; Sultana Sharief Shaik

Subject: Re: [perfsonar-user] Raspberry Node Setup!

 

W dniu 29.09.2015 o 13:20, Sultan Sharief pisze:

> Dear Trocha,

> 

> I managed to install testpoint in raspberry pie , how to setup to

> transmit data to measurement server

> 

> 

 

Do you already have a central measurement archive?

 

See this for MA details:

http://docs.perfsonar.net/3.5rc2/multi_ma_install.html

 

Regards,

 

--

Szymon Trocha

 

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