Agenda

KENET-NSRC-IU perfSONAR Workshop and Deployment

Time Schedule

Session 1	09:00 - 10:30
Break	10:30 - 11:00
Session 2	11:00 - 12:30
Lunch	12:30 - 14:00
Session 3	14:00 - 15:45
Break	15:45 - 16:15
Session 4	16:15 - 18:00

Instructors

BC	Brian Candler	​NSRC	United Kingdom	brian@…
PO	Patrick Okui	​NSRC	Uganda	pokui@…
SC	Scott Chevalier	​IN@IU	USA	schevali@…

Timetable

MONDAY	Topic		Presentations	Exercises	Software Used
Session 1	Introductions
Session 2	Intro and motivation	SC	PPTX
	Perfsonar architecture	BC	whiteboard
	TCP basics	BC	whiteboard	​TCP throughput formula
Session 3	KENET network overview	KENET staff
	Installation and Configuration	BC	PPTX	Setup admin info and NTP
Session 4				Configure manual owamp and throughput tests
TUESDAY
	Hands On - Mesh Setup
Session 1	Graph gotchas	BC	Review of overnight tests; Summarisation levels
Session 1	Deployment and regular testing	SC	PPTX	Install maddash and configure
Session 2	CLI tools	SC	PPTX
Session 3	Debugging Strategies	PO	PPTX
Session 4	Market Visit
WEDNESDAY
	Hands On - Mesh Interpretation
Session 1	maddash view		Analysis of maddash results; debugging NIC lockup issue
Session 2	contd			Network diagrams of Nakuru connectivity, analysis of interface configs
Session 3	Security and operations	PO	PPT
Session 4	contd / Leave for dinner
THURSDAY
	Hands On and Interpretation
Session 1	Review configuration inc force_bidirectional; choice of hostnames	PO
	SSH/Security clean-up/Admin user Root privileges	PO		KENET staff: reconfigure hostname, DNS, disable root login, ssh iptables )
Session 2	Maddash reconfiguration	SC		Edit and rebuild dashboard with external hosts
	XML, JSON and YAML	BC	PDF (slides 9-13)
	Direct repository access	BC		HTM
	Nagios plugin	BC		contd
Session 3	Fine tuning of kenet-mesh.conf inc. "no_agent 1"
Session 4	contd
FRIDAY
	Campus Visits
Session 1
Session 2
Session 3
Session 4

Resources

• ​CentOS/Toolkit Instructions (Recommend Full Install x86_64 from USB drive; leave USB drive in port for remote use if needed)
• Variations from the Norm (See SuperMicro Setup.pdf under "Attachments")
• ​perfSONAR Training Material Repository
• ​CLI/Measurement Tools Descriptions
• ​mesh config documentation from forthcoming version of perfsonar
• ​Example hardware configurations
• ​How not to design a switch

External presentations

• Please see "Attachments" below.

Additional information

• ​perfSONAR Toolkit User Guide
• ​TCP tuning - packet loss formula
• ​ESNet dashboard and ​configuations which generate it
• ESNet Africa dashboards: ​throughput and ​packet loss
• ESNet ​bwctl hosts and ​owamp hosts
• KENET Actively Deployed sites:
  • ​pfsnr.uon-pop.n.kenet.or.ke
  • ​pfsnr.usiu-pop.n.kenet.or.ke
  • ​pfsnr.eger-pop.a.kenet.or.ke
  • ​pfsnr.moi-pop.e.kenet.or.ke
  • ​pfsnr.maseno-town-pop.k.kenet.or.ke
• KENET MadDash
  • ​maddash-uon.kenet.or.ke/maddash-webui/
• ​Disabling NetworkManager
  • service NetworkManager stop
  • chkconfig NetworkManager off
• Commented IPTables rules

Project sites

• ​Central Configuration Overview
• ​Publishing a Central Configuration
• ​MadDash Configuration
• ​Joining the perfSONAR Communities
• ​MadDash Installation