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Anjum, Hassaan Khaliq, Kashif, Raja+, Johari, Nara, Abdullah, Badrul, Ridzuan, Ibrahim, Hanan, Saqib+, Adib, Les+, Renan, Bebo
+ Confirmed attendance
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Adib has contacted his colleague (Dr. Nordin: chair of ISTT2014) to discuss the possibility of slotting our workshop in to the ISTT2014. The conference will be held in Langkawi between 24-26 Nov. therefore, we need to provide detailed proposal about the whole workshop and Dr. Nordin will discuss our proposal with the organizing committee.
Adib is awaiting the workshop proposal to share with Dr. Nordin.
Hopefully, this will help us to attract good number of participants and get sponsor/support to cover our expenditure. Other option is to conduct the workshop in UUM, we are ready to provide Local Arrangement (lab, local transportation, and food). But there is no funding provided by the school to support the transportation/accommodation of the speakers.
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Ibrahim Abaker is planning to work on a topic initially entitled " leveraging pingER big data with a modified pingtable for event-correlation and clustering". Bebo & Les had a Skype meeting with Renan and Ibrahim to get an update and set up direct contact between Renan and Ibrahim. Ibrahim provided a copy of his proposal ( Ibrahim has a proposal, see https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/download/attachments/17162/leveraging%20pingER%20big%20data%20with%20a%20modified%20pingtable%20for%20event-correlation%20and%20clustering.docx).
UNIMAS
No progress 2/19/2014. Johari was not on the call 3/5/2014.
. He is currently spending time reading about RDF storage and its retrieval, alsohe is trying to setup Hadoop clusters for the experiment. He plans soon to discuss with Renan which part to work on first. He plans to collaborate with Renan to make the pinger store and process more efficient.
UNIMAS
The Raspberry Pi is at the data centre and has a public IP address. The private IP address works but not the public. Johari will pursuereports no progress 4/8/2014.
The tool to enable synchronizing Malaysian monitors is completed. It provides the ability to add, edit and delete nodes in the HostList. Raja has tested and after a mod was made to replace a private IP address it is working well. Johari provided information to Saqib on trying it out. Saqib successfully used tool and updated it. Johari will add an account for Badrul to use it. Saqib requested to add sorting the HostList by country, Johari will add this.
The traceroute server at http://pinger2.unimas.my/cgi-bin/traceroute.pl has the same problem as before. They know (sort of) the problem but haven't got the chance to rectify it (mapping NAT address, needs to be added). There is no progress 12/4/2013, 1/8/2013, 1.22.2014, 2/5/2014, 3/26/26/2014, 4/8/2014. Now that the historical traceroutes are working for UM (see below) there is an extra incentive to get the reverse traceroute working at UTM and UNIMAS
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Johari has a research student who finalized a proposal in order to officially apply for his masters. He will start in February. He is currently working on threshold/anomaly detection, and will extend to correlating performance over multiple routes. He will share the proposal with Les and others April.
UTM
Saqib has received an official letter regarding the successful selection of research assistant-ship at UTM.
Saqib submitted an FRGS 2014 proposal ("A Fundamental Active Internet Performance Monitoring Framework for Malaysian Research & Education Network") for 36 months. Proposes to submit another in ERGS or E-Science grants. He is in discussions with his PhD. superviser to get the requirements.
The new historical traceroute facility makes it important to get the traceroute server workling at UTM. No progress 3/26/2014.
Saqib has started a case study of Malaysian hosts seen from Malaysian Monitors. He has updated the remote host list on UTM Pinger (Malaysian & S.E Asia) and remote host xml tool. In the next two weeks, he will finish the case study of Malaysian hosts seen from Malaysian Monitors.
UTM pinger server is now running with an updated version of pinger.xml file using the tool provided by Dr. Johari. Saqib has updated the data on remote host management page with all S.E Asia nodes. Now UM and UNIMAS can synchronize their host list. The list is available here.
UUM
Regarding the monitoring host in UUM, Adib has assigned one student to prepare the configuration/installation plan including how to secure our host from attack. Adib requestd Johari to shre UNIMAS setting so it is easier for the student to follow.
NUST
Kashif returns next week. Joun leaves soon for Saudi Arabia. Anjum will request Arshad to get a replacement, he is unsure if one will be forthcoming. In any case for some time there will only be Kashif at SEECS supporting PingER.
The PingER monitor at SEECS/NUST (maggie1) is being rebuilt on a different computer following a crash.
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.
Johari has a research student who finalized a proposal in order to officially apply for his masters. He will start in February. He is currently working on threshold/anomaly detection, and will extend to correlating performance over multiple routes. He will share the proposal with Les and others April.
UTM
Saqib submitted an FRGS 2014 proposal ("A Fundamental Active Internet Performance Monitoring Framework for Malaysian Research & Education Network") for 36 months. Proposes to submit another in ERGS or E-Science grants. He is in discussions with his PhD. superviser to get the requirements.
Saqib is seeing some unexplainable results from the traceroute servers at UTM. Basically traceroute from UTM works fine with -I option. Otherwise it stop at hops 10 or 11 unless he uses the -f 6 option
Saqib has started a case study of Malaysian hosts seen from Malaysian Monitors. He has updated the remote host list on UTM Pinger (Malaysian & S.E Asia) and remote host xml tool. In the next two weeks, he will finish the case study of Malaysian hosts seen from Malaysian Monitors.
UTM pinger server is now running with an updated version of pinger.xml file using the tool provided by Dr. Johari. Saqib has updated the data on remote host management page with all S.E Asia nodes. Now UM and UNIMAS can synchronize their host list. The list is available here.
UUM
Regarding the monitoring host in UUM, Adib has assigned one student to prepare the configuration/installation plan including how to secure our host from attack. Adib requested Johari to share the UNIMAS setting so it is easier for the student to follow.
NUST
Kashif has returned.
The process of trouble shooting/rebuilding Maggie1 will be pursued by Kashif (now Joun has left).
BUITMS is apparently working but does not seem to have access internationally. Kashif and Raja are investigatingAs 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.
The BeaconLists at NUST and SLAC are out of sync. Raja compared the two pinger.xml files. It turns out NUST was not using the HostList for the non Beacons and so Pakistani monitors have an expanded BeaconList which was updated from SEECS. Raja has explained this to NUST and believe it will be easy to synchronize. Kashif asked about the definition of Beacons. Les updated the web page at http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/beacon.html. Hopefully this helps. However, Anjum pointed out that due to restrictions imposed at the at the PERN PoPs (limit number of hosts monitored, do not allow monitoring of non Pakistani hosts, do not provide full access permissions to the monitor) they cannot use the standard SLAC based beacon list. Anjum will talk to Arshad. Maybe the PERN PoPs should use a different Beacon list kept at SEECS.
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Anjum pointed out that there are working PingER monitors that SLAC appears unable to gather data from. An example is the Comsats host. Les discovered that SELInux needed to be disabled. it is working now.
Raja
Added 92 new perfSONAR landmarks to TULIP DB, 48 of which are geographically unique. This gives us a total of 1010 landmarks, 316 of which are currently enabled of geolocation.of which are geographically unique. This gives us a total of 1010 landmarks, 316 of which are currently enabled of geolocation.
A link to Vtrace Raja has added the ability to insert a captured traceroute into VTrace to get its route visualized. Try it at http://www-wanmon.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/reflector.cgi?function=vtrace. A link to it from the perfSONAR home page has been added. perfSONAR has updated to a new release. With this there are motre perfSONAR landmarks now available.
Raja, Umar and Les are working on a paper on TULIP and its application to Visual Tracerouting to be submitted later this year
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The PingER monitoring hosts at Taiwan, FNAL, UERJ(.br), sprace(.br), and South Africa(.za) have been restored to a working state. Les contacted the Hong Kong, Rutherford Lab (.uk), Daresbury Lab (.uk), and CEFET (.br, UNESP(.br) ans and ACMESecurity (.br) PingER monitors to try and get them fixed. The Hong Kong contact has retired.
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