perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

["C. Aaron Smith" <>]

Hi Andy,

That was it, thanks for catching that mistake!

Aaron

On 5/5/2017 10:41 AM, Andrew Lake wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
> 
> Thanks, the agents file you sent looks good. Taking a second look at
> your JSON file though I see something I didn't notice before - it looks
> like maybe you just have one <host> defined and it has all the
> addresses. They each need to be in their own <host> object because I
> think right now the meshconfig-agent is skipping all the tests because
> it thinks it would just be a test to itself.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy 
> 
> 
> 
> On May 5, 2017 at 7:54:08 AM, C. Aaron Smith 
> (
> <mailto:>)
>  wrote:
> 
>> Hi again Andy,
>>
>> Forgot to copy the list on my first reply. Thanks for taking a look.
>> Here is the /etc/perfsonar/meshconfig-agent.conf. There are manual
>> tests running on the test nodes to a set of nodes not part of the mesh
>> config. Those tests show up in the meshconfig-agent-tasks.conf file as
>> expected.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Aaron
>>
>> On 5/4/2017 10:47 AM, Andrew Lake wrote:
>> > Hi Aaron,
>> >  
>> > May seem like a silly question, but in your
>> > /etc/perfsonar/meshconfig-agent.conf are they pointing at
>> > http://128.91.196.207/mesh.json? If they are, could you send me
>> > /etc/perfsonar/meshconfig-agent.conf and I can double-check for anything
>> > else out of place. Looks like its just not reading that URL. It looks
>> > like what I assume are manual tests or tests from another mesh are
>> > getting created fine since if I go
>> > to https://165.123.50.178/pscheduler/tasks and dig down into one of the
>> > URLs its a new task, but looks like its running to a set of hosts not in
>> > the mesh shared.
>> >  
>> > Thanks,
>> > Andy
>> >  
>> >  
>> > On May 4, 2017 at 10:07:58 AM, C. Aaron Smith 
>> > (
>> >  
>> > <mailto:>
>> > <mailto:
>> >  
>> > <mailto:>>)
>> >  wrote:
>> >  
>> >> Hello all,
>> >>
>> >> I am setting up a mesh of test nodes as a proof of concept and running
>> >> into a problem. The testing nodes are not getting tests from the mesh.
>> >>
>> >> The test nodes are toolkit iso installs on centos 6, with perfsonar
>> >> upgraded to 4.0. The central mesh server is centos 7 toolkit iso
>> >> install of 4.0.
>> >>
>> >> The mesh configuration is derived from a conf file and can be found
>> >> here: http://128.91.196.207/mesh.json
>> >>
>> >> As per http://docs.perfsonar.net/multi_mesh_agent_config.html the test
>> >> nodes have /etc/perfsonar/meshconfig-agent.conf updated to use the above
>> >> file.
>> >>
>> >> /var/log/meshconfig-agent.log has updates like these:
>> >> 2017/05/03 10:37:01 (1107) INFO> perfsonar_meshconfig_agent:453 main:: -
>> >> Configuration file change detected, refreshing records.
>> >> 2017/05/03 10:39:32 (1107) INFO> perfsonar_meshconfig_agent:438 main:: -
>> >> Added 12 new tasks, and deleted 36 old tasks
>> >> 2017/05/03 10:51:32 (1107) INFO> perfsonar_meshconfig_agent:453 main:: -
>> >> Configuration file change detected, refreshing records.
>> >> 2017/05/03 10:52:18 (1107) INFO> perfsonar_meshconfig_agent:438 main:: -
>> >> Added 3 new tasks, and deleted 0 old tasks
>> >> 2017/05/04 03:53:51 (1107) INFO> perfsonar_meshconfig_agent:438 main:: -
>> >> Added 12 new tasks, and deleted 0 old tasks
>> >> 2017/05/04 04:52:19 (1107) INFO> perfsonar_meshconfig_agent:438 main:: -
>> >> Added 3 new tasks, and deleted 0 old tasks
>> >> 2017/05/04 09:19:54 (1107) INFO> perfsonar_meshconfig_agent:453 main:: -
>> >> Configuration file change detected, refreshing records.
>> >>
>> >> But the /etc/perfsonar/meshconfig-agent-tasks.conf on the test node is
>> >> not getting updated with the tasks from the mesh config.
>> >>
>> >> Where do I look on the test node to see if the mesh.json file is being
>> >> read by the test node?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Aaron
>> >>
>> >> --  
>> >> C. Aaron Smith
>> >> Senior Network Engineer
>> >> ISC Tech Services
>> >> University of Pennsylvania
>> >> OpenPGP Key ID: 0xC311AB25
>>
>> -- 
>> C. Aaron Smith
>> Senior Network Engineer
>> ISC Tech Services
>> University of Pennsylvania
>> OpenPGP Key ID: 0xC311AB25

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C. Aaron Smith
Senior Network Engineer
ISC Tech Services
University of Pennsylvania
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