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Pakistani case study – Zafar, Anjum
See the Status of Pakistani PingER monitoring nodesPakistani monitor hosts status . Zeeshan working on deployment. What is the current status , need updated file?What is the status of the HEC report?
Sadia unearthed a problem in smokeping at SEECS. It has been fixed. She also unearthed a problem in table.pl which has also been Fixed. She also spotted differences in the stats reported by table.pl and pigntable.p that needed understanding. Well done Sadia in unearthing and reporting the problems.
Progress on ICFA Report 2011 - ZafarNeed updated
Updated Pakistani PingER monitoring nodes status from Zeeshan.
Zafar has uploaded the report and email the link. Currently completed most of the stuff, still to do new nodes and Pakistani case study. the later will take a couple of weeks.
- 2010 Updates on Africa (done)
- Inland African fibre optics (done)
- African NREN (done)
- Mean Opinion Score
- Regions of the World graphs
- Throughput graphs (will be handled in December/January)
- PingER metrics (done)
- Loss (done)
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There is also a bug in the SEECS table.pl for dataservers with a @ sign for them, and the colors need to be looked at. Zafar is looking at.
http://www-wanmon.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/reflector.cgi?PD=set&PE=set&function=landmarks&out=csv needs modifying to use tsv instead of csv since there may be commas in the city field. Zafar is working on.
Added Features for pinger map - Faisal
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Traceroute.pl versions earlier than 5.0 have XSS vulnerability. It has been fixed. Now needs to be downloaded and the new version installed I have written a script (node-contacts.pl) to read the list of landmarks created by reflector.cgi then use an updated version of dbprac.pl to get contacts and dataserver from the database. Then extract the email addresses and using the CPAN sendmail.pm module be able to send an email to the contacts telling them of the need to upgrade. I will leave the Pakistani landmarks to SEECS.
Get the MatLab license at SEECS and put up a CGB server using it. The student(Bilal) had exams, will resume work on Monday. Do not have license for MatLab will do on own machines to test and will migrate when have license. Zafar will contact Arshad and Ali. Basically the client will call the reflector with the target. The reflector will return the landmarks and RTTs*. Any progress on MatLab CBG - Zafar?*
Les spotted an error in reflector.cgi when using function=landmarks and requesting a csv file. Zafar has fixed.
PerfSONAR
Zafar has not had a chance to do much work on it. The VMs are giving problems, changed to VMWare but no better. the machines are down. the graph problem is solved. Contacted Jason and pointed out problem with NTP servers. Latency nodes having problems. Working with NUST data center to sort out problems with VMs. Trying to fix the problem or move to physical. Zafar will put together paragraph on what has been working, plans and a picture.
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Les is trying to clear space to visit SEECS in February.
Les has submitted the invitation letters for Amber and Sadia to SLAC management. The account request have been received at SLAC, they will be submitted after Jan 3rd, 2011. Les also the has forms for Bilal's account, they will be submitted early next year.
They need to learn Perl. Zafar will go over what the projects PingER (this is done) and perfSONAR (this has to be done). hope to do tomorrow after finish the HEC report).
Zafar has his D2019. He has applied to the consulate, then await an interview with a weeks notice, then about a month to get visa. Hope for interview Dec 21st. optimistic, realistic late/Feb. Update
Adnan Kiani has just been introduced to the PingER project. He completed his PhD degree this year in communications at Brunel University. He will be taking over the liaison at SEECS from Anjum.
Arshad coming in Jan, to start his daughter at Foothill. Falsal looking for a place for them
Paper - Umar, Fida, Zafar
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The next meeting in Wednesday 5th January 2011 29th December 2010 for people in US and 6th January 30th December for people in Pakistan