perfSONAR-PS CPAN Installation

Installing the perfSONAR Services

perfSONAR-PS services are designed to be installed using the Perl CPAN distribution network. The instructions that follow assume this method. Alternatively, you may directly download the source code directly here.

  1. Some services have prerequisites that must be installed before continuing. These are listed in "Service Specific Information".
  2. From the command-line, run "cpan [perfSONAR Service Module]".
  3. Choose yes to install any required modules
  4. Once the installation process is finished, run "psConfigureDaemon"
  5. Add a new endpoint for the service and answer the questions when prompted
  6. Start the daemon using "/etc/init.d/perfsonar start"

perfSONAR Service Modules

  • LS - perfSONAR_PS::Services::LS::LS
  • SNMP MA - perfSONAR_PS::Services::MA::SNMP
  • Topology MA - perfSONAR_PS::Services::MA::Topology
  • Status MA - perfSONAR_PS::Services::MA::Status
  • CircuitStatus MA - perfSONAR_PS::Services::MA::CircuitStatus
  • pingER MA/MP - perfSONAR_PS::Services::MP::PingER

Service Specific Information

LS/Topology MA

Before installing the LS or Topology MAs, you must install the Oracle Sleepycat XML Database. This database can be downloaded at http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/xml/index.html. We have produced RPMs of Berkeley XML DB which can be obtained from http://packrat.internet2.edu/~aaron/dbxml_rpms/ . They were compiled on RHEL4, and are considered Beta.


SNMP MA

RRDTool must be installed before the SNMP MA can be installed. RRDtool can be downloaded from http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/ . RPMs of RRDTool are available for RedHat, CentOS and Fedora from the DAG RPM repository at http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/ .


Warning
When doing a CPAN installation, if a module fails to install, CPAN will emit a warning and continue installing the rest of the packages including any packages that depend on the failed module. Thus, you will need to make sure that all packages actually install.

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