perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Carl Hayter <>]

Setting 'filter_tool_name' to 0 did the trick, I have many colors now.

Thanks,
Carl

On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 05:59:50AM -0700, Andrew Lake wrote:
> Hi Carl,
> 
> Assuming it doesn’t go green, what happens if you set “filter_tool_name” to > 0
> in /opt/perfsonar_ps/mesh_config/etc/gui_agent_configuration.conf and then
> re-run /opt/perfsonar_ps/mesh_config/bin/generate_gui_configuration? It’s
> trying to only grab iperf3 tests (which is good) but I can’t tell if the 
> tool
> name generated matchs what’s in your MA.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Garnizov, Ivan (RRZE) 
> <>
> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Carl,
> 
>     Have no worries. It will go green soon, unless sudden failures appear. 
> You
>     have almost, but not quite, a full week of successful measurements. On 
> the
>     charts I looked.
> 
>     Best regards,
>     Ivan
> 
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: 
> 
>     
> [mailto:]
>  On Behalf Of Carl Hayter
>     Sent: Mittwoch, 7. Oktober 2015 21:08
>     To: 
> 
>     Subject: [perfsonar-user] Maddash only working halfway
> 
>     I'm having a bit of a weird issue with maddash. We have 8 perfsonar 
> boxes
>     (updated to 3.5) and I installed maddash one one of them, created a mesh
>     configuration and configured all the machines to pull it down, created 
> the
>     maddash config, and crossed my fingers...
> 
>     Funny thing is, on the dashboard, the OWAMP tests show up fine. The
>     throughput tests all stay orange and say 'Unable to find any tests with
>     data in the given time range ...'.
> 
>     Looking at individual boxes, the tests in the mesh config are running 
> and
>     collecting data. If I go to hpc-perfsonar.usc.edu I can view the graph 
> for
>     the test against phe-perfsonar.usc.edu, and if I go to
>     phe-perfsonar.usc.edu I can view the graph for the test against
>     hpc-perfsonar.usc.edu.
> 
>     On the maddash page, the HPC - PHE cells are orange and have the error
>     message, if I click on the cells I do see a graph with the correct test
>     data.
> 
>     
> http://hpc-perfsonar.usc.edu/maddash-webui/index.cgi?dashboard=USC%20TEN-II
> 
>     
> http://hpc-perfsonar.usc.edu/maddash-webui/details.cgi?uri=/maddash/grids/
>     USC+TEN-II+-+USC+TEN-II+Throughput+Testing/phe-perfsonar.usc.edu/
>     hpc-perfsonar.usc.edu/Throughput
> 
>     
> http://hpc-perfsonar.usc.edu/maddash-webui/details.cgi?uri=/maddash/grids/
>     USC+TEN-II+-+USC+TEN-II+Throughput+Testing/hpc-perfsonar.usc.edu/
>     phe-perfsonar.usc.edu/Throughput+Alternate+MA
> 
>     If I do a `curl http://phe-perfsonar.usc.edu/esmond/perfsonar/archive/`
>     I get a bunch of JSON data, same for hpc-perfsonar.usc.edu.
> 
>     If I run the `check_throughput.pl` nagios script (I think this is how 
> the
>     maddash data is acquired...), I get seemingly normal data.
> 
>     ~~~ on hpc-perfsonar.usc.edu ~~~
> 
>     H=hpc-perfsonar.usc.edu
>     P=phe-perfsonar.usc.edu
>     C='/opt/perfsonar_ps/nagios/bin/check_throughput.pl -p tcp --tool bwctl/
>     iperf3 -w 7: -c 20: -r 86400'
> 
>     # PHE->HPC from PHE ma
>     $C -s $P -d $H -a $P -u http://$P/esmond/perfsonar/archive
>     PS_CHECK_THROUGHPUT CRITICAL - Average throughput is 9.840Gbps | 
> Count=9;;
>     Min=9.60168;; Max=9.90942;; Average=9.84042555555556;; 
> Standard_Deviation=
>     0.121737880414458;;
> 
>     # HPC->PHE from PHE ma
>     $C -s $H -d $P -a $P -u http://$P/esmond/perfsonar/archive
>     PS_CHECK_THROUGHPUT CRITICAL - Average throughput is 9.273Gbps | 
> Count=7;;
>     Min=5.64209;; Max=9.9051;; Average=9.27343285714286;; 
> Standard_Deviation=
>     1.60169745801878;;
> 
>     # HPC->PHE from HPC ma
>     $C -s $H -d $P -a $H -u http://$H/esmond/perfsonar/archive
>     PS_CHECK_THROUGHPUT CRITICAL - Average throughput is 9.816Gbps | 
> Count=4;;
>     Min=9.76832;; Max=9.83687;; Average=9.8162625;; Standard_Deviation=
>     0.0322087476473979;;
> 
>     # PHE->HPC from HPC ma
>     $C -s $P -d $H -a $H -u http://$H/esmond/perfsonar/archive
>     PS_CHECK_THROUGHPUT CRITICAL - Average throughput is 9.542Gbps | 
> Count=4;;
>     Min=8.44071;; Max=9.9097;; Average=9.54223;; Standard_Deviation=
>     0.734346699182354;;
> 
>     ~~~
> 
>     So, how/why does my dashboard show the OWAMP results correctly but not 
> the
>     Throughput results?
> 
>     I've attached the 'usc-tenii.conf' (mesh config file), 'usc-tenii.json'
>     (via /opt/perfsonar_ps/mesh_config/bin/generate_configuration), and
>     'maddash.yaml' (via /opt/perfsonar_ps_mesh_config/bin/
>     generate_gui_configuration).
> 
>     Any ideas?
> 
>     ----
>     Carl Hayter
>     ITS - Data Network Operations
>     University of Southern California
> 
>