perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Daniel Doyle <>]

Using esmond requires python2.7, which isn’t the default on CentOS6.

If you need to generate an API key (or whitelist an API address), see here: http://docs.perfsonar.net/multi_ma_install.html#authenticating-by-username-and-api-key

Note the steps involving “enable” and “virtualenv” - that is why you’re getting that error message.

Dan Doyle
GlobalNOC Software Developer
1-812-856-3892

On Jul 26, 2016, at 4:32 PM, Cas D'Angelo <> wrote:

I have a RHEL 6.8 x86_64 box which is the only perfSONAR node I have which is not a Toolkit install.  The sysadmin installed many perfSONAR packages standalone, but I was having trouble getting any results from it on the maddash server. I installed the toolkit rpms on top of the other installation.

I think the issue is with esmond. I tried to manually add an api key and it gives me the following error:

$ python esmond/manage.py add_api_key_user perfsonar
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "esmond/manage.py", line 2, in <module>
    from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
ImportError: No module named django.core.management

In any case, I think I need an api key to place into regulartesting.conf.

Thanks for your advice.

Cas