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1. In this case, the MA (e.g. a script initiated at the Beijing MA and run at Beijing by say user Ann who does not have an account at SLAC) would daily run a script (as a cronjob) to use the incoming anonymous FTP at SLAC to store the day's data at SLAC. 

1. At most (with the exception of SLAC) MAs the data is stored in /usr/local/share/pinger/data, e.g.
   
   

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   file: /usr/local/share/pinger/data found on dxmon3.cern.ch total 66756 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12244303 Jun 7 18:56 ping-2018-06.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56049692 Jun 1 01:55 ping-2018-05.txt

2. The data from the MA is compressed and copied to a directory associated with the MA, e.g.
   
   

   Code Block
   169cottrell@pinger:~$ls -l /afs/slac/public/incoming/saqibali total 23277 -rw-rw-r-- 1 saqibali sf 9360738 Jun 6 20:20 ping-2018-04.txt.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 saqibali sf 12394002 Jun 6 20:20 ping-2018-05.txt.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 saqibali sf 2079565 Jun 6 20:01 ping-2018-06.txt.gz

2. Then it would be necessary for the user with a SLAC account (e.g. saqibali) to move the data from the anonymous FTP to:

/nfs/slac/g/net/pinger/pingerdata/hep/data/<host>/ping-<YYYY>-<MM>-<DD>.txt.gz
e.g.
/nfs/slac/g/net/pinger/pingerdata/hep/data/pinger.slac.stanford.edu/ping-2018-06-04.txt.gz
/nfs/slac/g/net/pinger/pingerdata/hep/data/pingergzhu.edu.cn/ping-2018-06-04.txt.gz

The SLAC account will need permissions to create a directory in /nfs/slac/g/net/pinger/pingerdata/hep/data/. This directory has permissions for:

176cottrell@pinger:~$ls -ld /nfs/slac/g/net/pinger/pingerdata/hep/data
drwxrwsr-x 220 pinger iepm 32768 May 16 00:45 /nfs/slac/g/net/pinger/pingerdata/hep/data/

To add the user to the iepm group

178cottrell@pinger:~$ypgroup adduser -group iepm -u saqibali
Jun  7 10:30:33 2018 User(s) 'saqibali' added to group 'iepm'
Jun  7 10:30:33 2018 User(s) must logout/login for this to take effect.
Jun  7 10:30:33 2018 Starting NIS post actions.
Jun  7 10:30:33 2018 [/usr/ccs/bin/make group]
copied group to /afs/slac/service/admin/NIS
updated group
pushed group
179cottrell@pinger:~$ypgroup exam -group iepm
Group 'iepm':
        GID:     2087
        Comment:
        Last modified at Jun  7 10:30:32 2018 by cottrell
        Owners:  cottrell
        Members: cottrell, iepm, pinger, saqibali, ytl
        This is a secondary group.

See https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/PingER+data+flow+at+SLAC for the data flow. It might be possible to modify the current gathering script (getdata.pl) to add step 2 support (i.e. gather the data from anonymous ftp that is basically acting as a proxy). This would be done via a script run at SLAC under a SLAC account (e.g. Dan). This might be interesting since it also could be extended and a step to providing support for the Android PingER project at Amity in Delhi, India which also needs a proxy.

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