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This meeting:  January February xx 2020 10 pm Pacific time; a day later 10:00 am Pakistan time; 10:30 am India time; 1:00 pm Malaysian & Guangzhou time;  12:00 pm Thailand time; 7:00 am Jordan and 6:00am Turkey.  

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Amity team photo:

Email sent 10/1/2020

 

  • Bebo, at our last meeting (Nov 26th), we discussed Amity and installing, testing the Amity Android PingER. My understanding was that you would need help to ensure it is working and the current level of collaboration does not look very conducive. It would help if Topher could assist and he would be visiting you around the end of the 1st week on December last year
    From the minutes of our last meeting:

    "SLAC needs to know how to access the Firebase data.
    • Once that is known and the data with lat, long included and we understand the format and how to access it, Les will look at how to incorporate in a backward-compatible fashion into the current PingER.Amity sent some information 10/19/2019. Les sent a long email 11/15/2019, asking how to understand files, how to get the lat/long and engaging Bebo and Saqib etc. 
    • Naman replied 11/18/2019 "The link which I shared is the apk file. You need not to extract it. Just download the apk and install on the mobile platform." Bebo, do you need more information, can you try this or follow up with Naman."
    I sent email to Naman on Dec 6th with a copy to you saying:
    "Thanks for the guidance on Firebase. I entered https://firebase.google.com/ in my Chrome browser.
    In the page that came up (see 2nd attachment) I saw no place to enter the Google account pingeramity123@gmail.com. The page had a video and a Get Started button. I tried the video but saw nothing about entering a Google account.
    Towards the bottom of https://firebase.google.com/
    there was a section:
    Authenticate a new user. With choices of Language (Swift Objective-C etc.)
    The Authenticate a new user was a pull down that included "Subscribe a new user to a notification topic" 
    I clicked on this and the 1st attachment popped up

    That did not appear to help. 

    I am sure this is all very powerful once one understands how to use it, but at the moment I am stalled.  Please help a newbie."
    Naman responded 12/22/2019:
    "Extremely sorry for the late response. I must have missed it somehow.

    We will arrange a skype meeting in the first week of January to demonstrate how firebase works."

    It appears we have missed the window of Topher's visit and the 1st week of January is over.
    I am cc'ing Naman in case he has any suggestions.  I am also ccing Saqib since he was looking at this subject.
     

    No response from Amity about January meeting, sent email reminder 2/16/2020.

  • Amity School of Engineering and Technology (ASET), is organizing CONFLUENCE-2020, 10th International Conference on Cloud Computing, Data Science & Engineering technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UP SECTION 29-31st January..
    • Bebo and Les are invited speakers (by Skype). However, they declined.
    •  Naman Madan is submitting a paper to "Confluence-2020:10th International Conference on Cloud Computing, Data Science & Engineering" titled "Implementation of PingER on Android Mobile Devices Using Firebase". Leas Les has reveiwed reviewed and made suggestions.

Bebo

NUST (Updated 7/24/2019)

 

IPv6 host at NUST:

Wajahat has requested Hasan to install PingER on an IPv6 host at NUST, Saqib has contacted Hasan to tell him where to find and upload the code. There is not a host name for the MA yet. Hopefully, this will be available by next month's meeting.

  •  7/24/2019 Les emailed Wajahat with a request for an update.
  • At the meeting Wajahat had asked the student to contact Saqib and get the information on energizing IPv6. Saqib provided the information, but the student could not access the URL (apparently the URLwas down). Wajahat was on leave and when he returned the internship had expired, so Wajahat is unsure what happened. Wajahat will start a new student next week and will set him on the IPv6 project. Progress?

Wajahat has a new intern. He is going through training for installing PingER. Wajahat hopes he will be ready to start real working in a couple of weeks following last month's meeting. Progress?

There is a problem with the nwfpuet host that appears to have started in April 2019.  For more detail see here.  Email sent to Wajahat 11/7/2019 and again 11/20/2019.

The Pakistan hosts: monitor, maggie2 and vu are not working. There have been several email exchanges between Wajahat and Les, and Wajahat says "These guys are not responding. We are trying to contact them. Already tried multiple times." This applies to vu. Les has turned off the warnings for vu. Sent email requesting up[date on maggie2 and monitor 11/22/2019.

UAF (University of Agriculture, Faisalabad)/GHZU

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  • Les turned on the debugging to investigate the discovery that several analysis scripts had stopped working in November 2019
    • Each night we run about 100 analysis scripts as batch jobs and after fixing problems with the mon-lib.pl etc. we still found about 10% were randomly failing.
    • After about 4 weeks it eventually transpired that some of the batch machines had not been enabled to access the Oracle database via the firewall. The jobs submitted to those hostsfailedhosts failed.
    • The cause of the problem was eventually identified about January 3rd and fixed about January 6th. No data was lost.
  • The new version of Linux CentOS7, does not appear to support the following modules that are used by the PingER analysis.
    • The Oracle database interface. PingER uses Oracle so there could be a problem.
    • The perl statistics module
    • I will restrict the PingER analysis jobs to the earlier version of Linux (RHEL6) to avoid these problems. I am working with the systems folks at SLAC and looking into when the current version of Linux at SLAC (RHEL6) will no longer be supported, and following SLAC's planning on how or whether to address the issues.
      • Rhel6 has full support until Nov 30, 2020. It then goes on "extended" support until June, 2024. I expect SLAC will continue to use it during the extended support phase, at least for a ocuple of years.

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