perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[John Williams <>]

I received an error when using the ansible-role-perfsonar-installer from the perfSONAR playbook.  When manually running the esmond install on the archive server the following error messages were received.

[root@localhost ~]# yum install esmond
CentOS-8 - AppStream                                                                                                           1.8 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:02
CentOS-8 - Base                                                                                                                3.1 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:01
CentOS-8 - Extras                                                                                                              689  B/s | 1.5 kB     00:02
perfSONAR RPM Repository - software.internet2.edu - main                                                                        31  B/s | 266  B     00:08
Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'perfSONAR', ignoring this repo.
No match for argument: esmond
Error: Unable to find a match
[root@localhost ~]# hostnamectl
   Static hostname: localhost.localdomain
         Icon name: computer-vm
           Chassis: vm
        Machine ID: 4ce99df313534ba3b7ae199ef8ab570a
           Boot ID: 995ceb7af20540458dd25a7590727057
    Virtualization: vmware
  Operating System: CentOS Linux 8 (Core)
       CPE OS Name: cpe:/o:centos:centos:8
            Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-80.el8.x86_64
      Architecture: x86-64

John L. Williams Jr.

Manager, Enterprise Network Architecture