perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

["Garnizov, Ivan" <>]

Hello Ignacio,

The short answer is it is not possible...
It is also not possible, nor advisable to run underspecified tests.
All in all even if the Toolkit high level service does not set them, then it 
would be the lower level setting them automatically for you.

Instead I would strongly recommend to see in the task details of the 
successful run, what exactly the parameter specifications was and then try to 
reproduce it.
IMO It would be much easier if you make several tests on the CLI to find / 
match the correct set of parameters for a complete spec of the test, which 
succeeds just the way you managed.

It is interesting also you managed to have a successful test with a system 
behind NAT, which means the scheduler on the B host has recognized the IP 
address you are calling for a test as own address.


Regards,
Ivan Garnizov

GEANT WP6T3: pS development team
GEANT WP7T1: pS deployments GN Operations
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-----Original Message-----
From:  
[] On Behalf Of Ignacio Peluaga 
Lozada
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 12:47 PM
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Subject: [perfsonar-user] Throughput test via Toolkit

Hello all,

I have a question regarding scheduling throughput measurements between two 
hosts, A and B, using the toolkit. Host B is behind NAT, host A is not.

Via host A's toolkit I have scheduled a throughput test to host B, but no 
results are reported. 

Therefore I ssh'd into host A and run 'pscheduler monitor' and saw there 
indeed the throughput task as 'Failed'. I run the command there shown and it 
fails (I get 'Run did not complete: Failed'), however if I remove all the 
options except '--dest' it works. 

So my question is, is there anyway to avoid having the toolkit set those 
options (source, source-node, dest-node, etc)? 

Thanks.

Regards,
Ignacio