perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Mark Feit <>]

Jeff White writes:

    With PS 4.0 and pscheduler, is there a way to run a throughout test 
    without installing Perfsonar's whole stack including a Web server?  

At the moment, no.  I have some ideas how we could do that in a limited 
fashion, but actually doing it requires some development that’s not in the 
plans (yet).

    Essentially what I am looking for is a way to run a throughput test from 
    any CentOS 7 system in my cluster and not just my Perfsonar node.  I'm 
    fine with installing whatever packages are needed, but trying to avoid 
    httpd and other daemons which I then have to disable.

If Docker is an option, we have a couple of containers in development that 
might get the job done in a way that might work for you.  Brian Tierney is 
working on one that does the entire test point.  If you’d like to beta test 
it, it’s on DockerHub, drop me a note off-list and we can get you started 
with it.  I have one that’s pScheduler-only, which is the bare minimum you 
need to run tests, but I’d recommend using the test point container, as 
that’s what will probably become the officially-supported version.

--Mark