perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Andrew Lake <andy@es.net>]

Hi,

IIf you are running a lot of owamp tests, you’ll likely want some type of DNS cache to make sure you’re not doing a bunch of unnecessary lookups.  NSCD is a relatively lightweight way of doing that, which is why its included in the toolkit. If you disable the nscd daemon, you may want to look into setting up a local bind server or similar to do the caching.

Thanks,

Andy

On July 18, 2017 at 2:51:54 PM, Tony Plovich (aplovich@anl.gov) wrote:

Hello,

I'm helping to setup several Perfsonar 4.x servers, and was looking to
hook it into our authorization / authentication systems (LDAP, AD,
ect). My problem is that we usually do this through SSSD, which can
have issues running alongside NSCD.

How important is NSCD to PerfSonar's operation? Will anything break if
I disable the service?

Thanks,

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Tony Plovich (aplovich@anl.gov)
Business Information Systems (BIS)
Argonne National Laboratory
Phone: +1 630.252.2359