perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

["Robinson, John-Paul" <>]

Hi Folks,

We reinstalled our perfsonar node using Alama9 and following the perfsonar toolkit install here with straight cut-n-paste.

https://docs.perfsonar.net/install_el.html

I've seen some oddities on the install compared to our prior install (4.4 on centos6). 

• I haven't been able to update the host information configuration via the web UI.  I can fill out the form, but when I press save it just resets to blank. 

• I worked around this by editing the underlying config file /etc/perfsonar/lsregistrationdaemon.conf directly.
• Unfortunately, I can't seem to set the organization name.  There isn't a field for it in the file and I haven't guessed the correct one yet.

The site overview says my NTP config is not active and not registered

• I'm hoping these are UI inconsistencies: chronyd is running and so is the perfsonar-lsregistration service.

I noticed I couldn't import my old test data, because it seems Cassandra is not used.

• That's OK, just confirming my understanding.

I defined new tests and they are running but I only see performance data in one direction (the tests show bidirectional in the web UI) and, more disturbingly, when I click on the graphs there is an error "Error retrieving data No data found in the measurement archive" instead of a graph.

• I've checked all my running processes and they are all active except for "perfsonar-generate_motd.service" and "perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters.service" which exited.
• looks like the nic config is attempting to use old style ifcfg changes "perfsonar-configure_nic_parameters[1294]: ls: cannot access '/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg"

Here's our site for reference https://ps-sd.rc.uab.edu/toolkit/

Thanks for any insights you can provide on the above.

John-Paul