perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

["Rittenhouse, Robert (LACA)" <>]

Antoine,

Thank you for the very detailed response. When you mention the mesh structure 
and multiple test points, are you referring to the CPE devices that would be 
tested to or the servers that would be initiating tests against test points?

We basically need an automated test tool for testing our circuits between us 
and our schools at (at least) certain times of day. Were set up as a 
hub-and-spoke with our customer school districts and we only need to test 
from our testing server here to the CPE device that we have deployed.

I'll read more into the Mesh setup and see if that'll work for us. If we 
would (for some reason) resort to using the Centos packaged distro (I do 
realize that its discouraged) how many test points (generally) would be 
supported in a setup like that. I do realize that there are TONS of variables 
to that question but is there a rule-of-thumb?

Thank you!

Robert Rittenhouse
Network Coordinator
Licking Area Computer Association (LACA)
(740) 345-3400 ext. 220


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From: Antoine Delvaux 
[]
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2016 9:13 AM
To: Rittenhouse, Robert (LACA)
Cc: 

Subject: Re: [perfsonar-user] Running perfSONAR server on Ubuntu

Hello Robert,

The Debian/Ubuntu port we provide and support doesn’t contain the toolkit web 
interface yet.  For the perfSONAR 3.5 release, the web interface only comes 
with the CentOS install.

The Debian/Ubuntu port is currently limited to the perfsonar-tools and 
perfsonar-testpoint bundles that are described at 
http://docs.perfsonar.net/install_debian.html

The perfsonar-ui-web package that you have installed is another piece of 
software that enables you to request and plot latency and bandwidth 
measurements from a web interface that is not directly tied to a single 
toolkit installation.  You can find more information about this tool at 
http://docs.perfsonar.net/using_psui.html   This tool can be installed 
separately from any perfSONAR toolkit deployment and we usually recommend to 
have only one per network you administer/monitor/measure.

That being said, we’re currently working on extending the Debian/Ubuntu port 
and we are working on the other bundles.  We have a few of them already 
available for testing purposes, but the toolkit web interface is not there 
yet.

In conclusion, at the moment, for the perfSONAR deployments using Debian or 
Ubuntu, you have to either rely on CLI administration and configuration of 
each node or use a mesh-configuration server that will distribute the 
measurements configurations to your nodes through the meshconfig-agent 
running on the Debian/Ubuntu nodes.  This last setup is actually the 
recommended one if you have multiple test points to manage.  There is more 
information about such a setup at 
http://docs.perfsonar.net/multi_mesh_agent_config.html

I hope this answers your questions.

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> Le 5 janv. 2016 à 13:20, Rittenhouse, Robert (LACA) 
> <>
>  a écrit :
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have been looking into using perfSONAR to perform automated testing 
> between the fiber links that we provide to our customers. I am able to use 
> the Centos perfSONAR Toolkit installation but I don't normally use Centos 
> and I don't know how many testpoints that setup will handle, etc.
>
> I tried to install it on Ubuntu 14.04.3 but there is no webserver listening 
> on port 80 or 443 after I installed perfsonar-ui-web. I see that Tomcat was 
> installed and appears to be listening, but no webserver?
>
> What am I missing? I am looking for the toolkit GUI that I use on the 
> toolkit CD.
>
> Also, I do realize that Ubuntu is not specifically supported but Debian is. 
> If Debian works better, let me know.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert Rittenhouse
> Network Coordinator
> Licking Area Computer Association (LACA)
> (740) 345-3400 ext. 220
> 
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