Hi Chris
The ops meeting decision, following the discussion following at GridPP28, was to drop GridMon (or GRIDMON!) and pursue PerfSonar. I believe the conclusions were circulated on TB-SUPPORT but I'll check back in case we missed the update somehow.
Each site should have at least one box now for the PerfSonar bandwith tests. The sites that got two can also the latency end-point.
Jeremy
On 22 Jun 2012, at 11:27, Chris Brew wrote:
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> Hi Jeremy,
>
> Weren't all sites allocated £2k from DRI bid for a new gridmon box and in
> theory only some sites were allocated PerfSonar boxes? Now since the
> switches generally came in cheaper than expected I think most sites used the
> spare to buy boxes for PerfSonar as well.
>
> So do all sites have PerfSonar boxes? And if so, where does that leave
> GridMon and the new boxes we've just bought for it?
>
> Yours,
> Chris.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes [mailto:TB-
>> [log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jeremy Coles
>> Sent: 22 June 2012 08:27
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: PerfSonar Deployment
>>
>> Hi John
>>
>> Thanks for installing PerfSonar. Duncan will request the appropriate
>> endpoint so that it is visible here:
>> https://perfsonar.usatlas.bnl.gov:8443/exda/?page=25&cloudName=UK. As
>> Mark mentioned privately yesterday, "once we have a critical core of
>> machines on line we will start running low level benchmark tests
>> against UK sites. This will build up a picture of how well the local to
>> JANET networks are working between sites and RAL.
>> We have not defined tests as a group yet."
>>
>> The decision that we took in going with PerfSonar made GRIDMON obsolete
>> longer term, and I suspect with it the old hardware it runs on. In
>> theory the GRIDMON machines still provide data for
>> (http://gridmon.dl.ac.uk/gridmon/graph.html which became)
>> http://gm001.gla.scotgrid.ac.uk/gridmon/graph.html and could still be
>> useful until we fully transition to PerfSonar if that view still works.
>> Neither link give me anything useful at the moment and I suspect
>> getting it to function again is no longer going to happen with the move
>> to PerfSonar. It is a pity as it would be interesting to see how recent
>> Tier-1 and Tier-2 network changes/upgrades have impacted the metrics.
>> There was a spec circulated for the PerfSonar hardware that I suspect
>> the GRIDMON machine will not meet and it will anyway likely be out of
>> warranty so redeployment options are going to be limited.
>>
>> Jeremy
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>> On 21 Jun 2012, at 12:33, John Hill wrote:
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>>> A couple of days ago I decided to bite the bullet and install our
>> PerfSonar box. I think it is now up and running with PerfSonar 3.2.2.
>> It uses a 10GBE interface to our network. The question is - what now?
>>>
>>> On a related question - is the old GRIDMON box used any more? I know
>> that when Santanu has asked in the past, the answer has been "yes" -
>> but presumably with the PerfSonar rollout it isn't required any more?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> John
>>>
>>> On 06/06/2012 14:54, Jeremy Coles wrote:
>>>> Dear All
>>>>
>>>> Just to expand on Mark's message. Our aim is for all GridPP sites to
>> deploy one perfSonar box (for bandwidth tests) by the end of July. As
>> an interim target we would like at least another 4 sites (we have 3 so
>> far) to have deployed and be visible on the perfSonar dashboard by 27th
>> June.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your help.
>>>>
>>>> Jeremy
>>>>
>>>> On 6 Jun 2012, at 14:48, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> I was wondering if anyone would like to volunteer for the second
>> phase of deployment of Perfsonar boxes?
>>>>> Lancaster and Brunel have provisionally said that they would look
>> at deploying this service shortly and Glasgow will be enabling this
>> service in the coming 10 days.
>>>>> It would be good if we could deploy the new service by the end of
>> this month if possible.
>>>>> regards,
>>>>> Mark
>>>>> --------------------------------------------
>>>>> Mark Mitchell,
>>>>> ScotGrid Technical Co-ordinator,
>>>>> Rm 481,
>>>>> Kelvin Building,
>>>>> School of Physics and Astronomy,
>>>>> University of Glasgow,
>>>>> G12 8QQ, UK
>>>>> Telephone: +44-141-330 6439
>>>>> E Mail: [log in to unmask]
>>>>>
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