perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Johann Hugo <>]

Hi all

I'm using PWA to create my psconfig files. PWA does not have opensearch support by default, but it can be added with some inline JSON code under Archive Custom JSON. E.g.

      "archiver": "http",
      "data": {
        "schema": 3,
        "_url": "http://perf-dash.sanren.ac.za/logstash",
        "verify-ssl": false,
        "op": "put",
        "_headers": {
          "x-ps-observer": "{% scheduled_by_address %}",
          "content-type": "application/json"
        }
      }
    }

Next issue is that PWA puts the "display-name" for a mesh under the "_meta" section (works for MadDash) but it does not create a section called "reference" that has a "display-task-name" under it. The Grafana mesh dashboard only works if one adds a "reference" section by hand after creating the PWA psconfig file.

  "tasks": {
    "100G latency": {
      "group": "100G latency",
      "test": "100G latency",
      "archives": [
        "custom-67fcbe1899c4260024ce8bb8"
      ],
      "_meta": {
        "display-name": "100G latency"
      },
      "reference": {
        "display-task-name": "100G latency",
        "display-task-group": [
          "SANReN-100G"
        ]
      }
    },
    "100g throughput": {
      "group": "100g throughput",
      "test": "100g throughput",
      "archives": [
        "custom-67fcbe1899c4260024ce8bb8"
      ],
      "_meta": {
        "display-name": "100G throughput"
      },
      "schedule": "sched-0",
      "tools": [
        "iperf3"
      ],
      "reference": {
        "display-task-name": "100G throughput",
        "display-task-group": [
          "SANReN-100G"
        ]
      }
    }
  },

Use psconfig publish to publish the modified pcsonfig.json file.

The mesh graphs should be visible under the Grafana "perfSONAR pSConfig" menu, even if psconfig stats grafana shows 0 tasks.

Regards

Johann