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Kashif reports the installation of PingER at Sahiwal is complete. Added as PingER monitor and tracerouretraceroute/ping server.
The following nodes (were down for months) and have now been recovered by the efforts made by Kashif in the last two weeks and they are working fine now. These all are also updated with the new beacon list by replacing pinger.xml file.
- pinger.nca.edu.pk
- pinger.nwfpuet.edu.pk
- pinger.pern.edu.pk (HEC)
pinger2 command was working on "pinger.pern.edu.pk" but due to space shortage it was not storing data. Now Kashif removed some older files and it starts working again, also the time of the server was not correct so he changed that too.
- pingerfsbd.pern.edu.pk
- pingerisl-fjwu.pern.edu.pk
- pinger.lcwu.edu.pk is also fine. collection status at SLAC will change the color today after collecting data for 19th May arround 4pm PKST.
- pingermtn.pern.edu.pk
- pingermtn.pern.edu.pk remained DOWN for most of the time due to power outage in last week. Due to sudden breakdown, the Linux OS was also creating problem at reboot and get stuck in checkdisk type of errors and was demanding manual clicks and commands. So, in this situation, Kashif requested to the contact person and he managed to arrange UPS for the PingER monitoring node. Hopefully it will UP now most of the time or at least till the backup time of UPS, if power outage remains for multiple consecutive hours.
- pingermtn.pern.edu.pk remained DOWN for most of the time due to power outage in last week. Due to sudden breakdown, the Linux OS was also creating problem at reboot and get stuck in checkdisk type of errors and was demanding manual clicks and commands. So, in this situation, Kashif requested to the contact person and he managed to arrange UPS for the PingER monitoring node. Hopefully it will UP now most of the time or at least till the backup time of UPS, if power outage remains for multiple consecutive hours.
- pinger.uob.edu.pk is working, but having multi-hour power outages each day. This usually means that when SLAC normally goes to gather the data in the early morning Pacific time the host does not respond so we are unable to gather the data. Analyzing the outages, it it appears that a good time gather the data is at ~11:00am Pacific time, since the host usually responds at that time.
- www.upesh.edu.pk
- buitms.seecs.edu.pk
- maggie1.seecs.edu.pk
- monitor.seecs.edu.pk
- Also needed the time corrected and updated pinger2.pl and pinger.xml
Kashif is working on the rest of nodes. Among those, may be the following that have not responded to gathering data in the last month are:
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To assist in SEECS gathering data: getdatanodes.cf is now available via http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/tools/nodes.cf. Also to assist in debugging some problems with gathering and checking the data the SLASC versions of checkdata.pl and checkdata_gif.pl are available at the same place.
Raja
Raja, Umar and Les have submitted the paper on TULIP and its application to Visual Tracerouting to the Vancouver conference in November.
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