perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Phil Reese <>]

Thanks Mark, that solved it!

I saw that bwctl was in tools and thought that pscheduler would 
similarly be.

Testpoint it will be going forward!

Phil


On 6/12/17 7:46 PM, Mark Feit wrote:
> Phil Reese writes:
>
>      I recently did a fresh install of Centos 7.3 and then the
>      perfsonar-tools bundle install.  I casually did a 'pscheduler --help'
>      just to confirm it was installed.  It was.  I of course then did a bunch
>      of 'bwctl' tests and then stopped myself and said try the 'new' thing.
>      I tried a pscheduler command line it failed with a particularly odd
>      error message.
>
>      [preese@srn-dy6 ~]$ pscheduler task throughput --dest <local-host>
>      Unable to find pScheduler on localhost
>
> You’re one bundle too low on the totem pole.    Perfsonar-tools installs just 
> the underlying tools (iperf3, owamp, etc.) and the pScheduler CLI, which will 
> let you communicate with pScheduler on other systems.  Making your local 
> system run tasks with pScheduler requires the pScheduler server, which is 
> what does the work.  That’s included in perfsonar-testpoint (and, by 
> extension, -core and -toolkit).  A yum install of the right bundle will get 
> everything installed and started.
>
> You can check to see if the server is running on a host with “pscheduler ping 
> <hostname>” (which is different from measuring round-trip time with “pscheduler 
> task rtt --dest <hostname>”).
>
> --Mark