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The PingER monitor at SEECS/NUST (maggie1) is being rebuilt on a different computer following a crash. There are 2 approaches thta can be tried in parallel:
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They could not get the database password from anyone. However as a last option they cracked and made a dump of the database for backup. That machine (maggie1) is still infected and it is not possible to make it UP at its present state. Since Joun is leaving this job (family shifted to Saudi arabia) so the process of its trouble shooting will resume as Kashif returns to Islamabad.
As an alternate solution they prepared another machine as a monitoring node and gave it the IP & DNS of maggie1. Also they installed the Beacon list file in it at the required path which is accessible and downloadable from other monitoring nodes. With that, now nodes are being UP again one by one, by updating Beacon list from new maggie1 machine. So at least SLAC can ping and have data of Pakistani Monitoring Nodes in its database
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The BeaconLists at NUST and SLAC are out of sync. Raja will compare the two pinger.xml files. It turns out NUST was not using the HostList for the non Beacons and so had an expanded BeaconList which was updated from SEECS. Raja has explained this to NUST and believe it will be easy to synchronize. Update requested 3/21/2014.
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