perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

["Jennewein, Douglas M" <>]

I am trying to add a central MA to a <host> entry in an existing central mesh config file.

The docs here (http://docs.perfsonar.net/multi_ma_install.html) show measurement_archive sections containing type, username, database, password, where type is something like esmond/latency, followed by a bunch of <summary> sections.

ESnet examples like https://github.com/esnet/esnet-perfsonar-mesh/blob/master/conf/osc-mesh.conf show only type, read_url, and write_url, and type is something like perfsonarbuoy/owmp, with no <summary> sections.

My measurement host’s /etc/perfsonar/regulartesting.conf has a measurement_archive section like this:

<measurement_archive>

    database   http://localhost/esmond/perfsonar/archive/

    password   xxxxxxxxxx

    <summary>

…

When I try to add a <measurement_archive> section to my central config file, I get errors from build_json when including the password or database attributes:

2016/09/09 16:44:07 (13648) ERROR> Utils.pm:80 perfSONAR_PS::MeshConfig::Utils::load_mesh - Invalid mesh configuration: Unknown attribute: password at /usr/lib/perfsonar/bin/../lib/perfSONAR_PS/MeshConfig/Config/Base.pm line 172.

Resulting mesh is invalid: Invalid mesh configuration: Unknown attribute: password at /usr/lib/perfsonar/bin/../lib/perfSONAR_PS/MeshConfig/Config/Base.pm line 172.

When I configure the <measurement_archive> section with type, read_url, and write_url, build_json does not complain, but the measurement_archive is not added to my measurement host’s /etc/perfsonar/regulartesting.conf after running /usr/lib/perfsonar/bin/generate_configuration.

What is the config file syntax for adding a measurement_archive to a host defined in a mesh?

 

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Doug Jennewein

Director of Research Computing

The University of South Dakota