perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Mark Feit <>]

Uhl, George D. (GSFC-423.0)[Arctic Slope Technical Services, Inc.] writes:

 

I went ahead and tried to add the TCPping client into the suite of pscheduler tools for RTT.  Using subversion, I downloaded the latest trunk branch of the pscheduler package off github and followed the instructions provided here: https://github.com/perfsonar/pscheduler/tree/master/scripts/PDK. I completed steps #1 and #2 but I’m stuck on #3.  I don’t see anything called “cbic” anywhere in the package.    If I don’t need to do that step, how do I get my tool recognized by pscheduler?

 

There’s a missing step:  The plugin needs to be developed on a system that’s set up for pScheduler development.  (Ed:  That should probably be mentioned in the docs.)  You’re one of a very few people outside the project who’s taken on plugin development, so we’ll use this process to fill in the gaps.

 

The quickest route to that is with Vagrant.  I have a Vagrantfile that builds up a set of CentOS 7 systems that’s properly configured for development:  https://github.com/perfsonar/pscheduler/blob/master/scripts/vagrant/dev-cluster/Vagrantfile.  Do the following:

 

• Fork pScheduler into to your own GitHub account.
• Follow the instructions at the top of the Vagrantfile.  You’ll probably want to set the number of machines to 1 unless you need two.
• Log into the VM as yourself per the instructions.
• Become root (sudo -i).
• cd /local/<yourlogin>
• Clone the forked repository (git clone https://github.com/george/...)
• cd pscheduler
• Check out the current production branch (git checkout 4.3.2)
• make
• Wait awhile.  When the make finishes, you’ll have a system with a fully-functioning pScheduler (but none of the toolkit’s other ameneties).
• Go through the development process as outlined in the PDK.  The missing ‘cbic’ is a target in a Makefile template I developed that stands for “clean, build, install, clean” and will compile the plugin into an RPM and install it.

 

If you need some Zoom time to get underway, I have some time over the next few days that’s not spoken for.

 

--Mark