perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Andrew Lake <>]

Hi,

It depends on your setup. If you currently just have the “perfsonar-archive” package installed, if that updates to 5.1.0 then it will not pull-in any of our packages that touch the Grafana configuration. The only thing that might get updated is the Grafana package itself since we ship newer than 10.3 in our repos. If you did not install Grafana using dnf or apt then this wouldn’t happen though.

If you would like to have the perfSONAR packages manage your Grafana instance, you would need to install the "perfsonar-grafana” package using dnf or apt. This might interfere with your installation depending on how its setup. That package will setup a random admin password, setup some paths for provisioning datasources and dashboards and setup an apache reverse proxy that forwards port 443 to localhost:3000…though I don’t know how any of this would interact with your current setup. Additionally, if you also want a default set of dashboards you could install "perfsonar-grafana-toolkit” (which requires “perfsonar-grafana”). If you were to go this route then I’d backup any dashboards or datasources before the upgrade to be safe. You do not have to do any of this though if you don’t want, I’l just providing it for informational purposes. 

We also have a ticket open on providing instructions for importing the dashboards into an existing Grafana install, which you can do through the Grafana UI. We need to complete those instructions but you can find the dashboard JSON here: https://github.com/perfsonar/grafana/tree/master/perfsonar-grafana/perfsonar-grafana/dashboards/toolkit. The only tricky part is that you will need to replace the datasource UIDs with the UIDs of the datasource you already created. You would also need to make sure you had all the plugins used installed. If you’re not comfortable doing this might be worth waiting until we have instructions. 

Hope that helps,

Andy

On June 13, 2024 at 9:23:16 PM, Jackson, Wayne P. (GSFC-585.0)[Axient] () wrote:

Quick question:

 

I have a Grafana (10.3) installation active on my Central Archive server that I use to graph OpenSearch tset result data for perfSONAR. If I install 5.1.0 and wish to use the new Grafana UI will this interfere with my current configuration for Grafana?

Will the new Grafana with perfSONAR also use port 3000?

 

-Wayne

 

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Date: Tuesday, June 11, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] [BULK] [perfsonar-user] perfSONAR 5.1.0 now available

 

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All,

 

perfSONAR 5.1.0 is now available as a general release. This release replaces the default UI with a new one based on Grafana, adds multi-threaded iperf3 support to pScheduler, additional OS support and many other changes. Full release notes can be found here: https://www.perfsonar.net/releasenotes-2024-06-11-5-1-0.html

 

If you have an existing perfSONAR installation running auto-updates, you should automatically get the new version. If you would like to perform a new installation see the perfSONAR documentation at https://docs.perfsonar.net/#installation. Keep in mind it may take up to 24 hours for all package repositories to update. 

 

Additionally, MaDDash has been deprecated in favor of a new Grafana-based solution. If you have an existing MaDDash installation it will not be automatically updated. If you would like a step-by-step guide on setting up a central archive and Grafana interface see https://docs.perfsonar.net/cookbook_central_archive.html 

 

Thank you to everyone that helped test the beta version of 5.1.0. That testing was invaluable to reaching this final release. We look forward to your feedback on this latest version and as always let the development team know if you have any questions.

 

Thank you,

The perfSONAR Development Team

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