Time & date
Wednesday 6 20 March 2013 8:00pm Pacific Standard Time, Thursday March 7 21 2013 9:00am Pakistan time, Thursday March 7 21 2013 12:00 noon Malaysian time.
Attendees
Invitees: Anjum*, Kashif*, Johari*, Nara, Abdullah*, Badrul*, Hanan, Fidah, Saqib*, Les*, Raja-, Umar and Bebo -
* Confirmed attendance
- Unable to attend
Actual attendees: Badrul, Saqib, Les
General
Johari has set up a web landing site for the Malaysian collaboration. It is at http://pinger.unimas.my/pinger. It contains:
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- brief history, description of the project and the objectives
- link to main SLAC page
- Link to NUST site
- list of names, contact details (email, etc), their affiliation, and the scope of job in the project
- a link to the data collected from UNIMAS and also other hosts in UM, USM, and UTM when they have their monitoring host running
- link to meeting minutes for 2013 in Confluence to do: links to minutes from 2012, 2011, and 2010
- Bebo added as an advisor
- details of the workshop in UNIMAS and also slides from the talks and hands on sessionssessions
To do for the website:
- add some images from the workshop conducted in UNIMAS
- add a list of monitored sites (currently the list is linked directly to the SLAC site)
- add info on research (what to add here? eventually list of research grants, publication, etc)
Please visit the website, any feedback, corrections, suggestions are much appreciated.
It would help to have an MoU between SLAC and UTM. Based on DOE current MOU policy, using the UNIMAS MOU format will not work. SLAC's legal folks also do not think that merely adding additional parties to the current MOU will work either. The new DOE policy will require a new approval. We may be able to get DOE approval of a Work for Others agreement. To do a WFO agreement we would need, at a minimum:
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The traceroute server is also running. It is at: http://pinger.fsksm.utm.my/cgi-bin/traceroute.pl. Saqib discovered the problem was a timeout in traceroute.pl. Saqib has extended the timeout and it works. there here may still be timeout problems and Saqib will experiment with longer timeouts of up to 280ms.
Saqib is starting to look at Pingtable.pl anomalies as a start in a case study for Malaysia and S.E Asia. The general idea of the case study is to be found at: https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/Malaysian+Case+study. Saqib is making up a list of hosts in Malaysian states that respond to pings.
We should discuss:
It is not easy to find such sites in those states. Obvious targets are universities, for example UUM in Kedah and UNIMAP in Perlis, but those sites are not ping-able. One way is to approach these universities and explain to them about PingER project and request for the ping packet to be enable. Les has sent HostFinder.pl to Johari to possibly assist in finding hosts.
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From Arshad: Rector has agreed to support one person visit to SLAC. Raja has been nominated. Cybersecurity wanted a rsiks and mitigations document. It has been created and accepted. Raja's invitation letter has been signed by the CIO. It was sent to the Associate lab Director last Friday. It It was sent to Raja just before the last meeting.
Arshad and the NUST Rector visited UM and UTM earlier this week. They visited UM Monday at about 10:30AM along with the NUST Pakistan delegation. They visited the Deputy Vice Chancellor and the EE Dept in Faculty of Engineering. At this occasion they also sent email to Abdullah, Fidah, Badrul, and Salwa, to engage in a discussion on collaboration in the PingER project being pursued by NUST team in partnership with Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) USA. Badrul was unable to meet due to the short notice and a prior engagement. The visit to UTM was postponed due to the NUST rector getting sick.
Any feed back - Anjum?Kashif reports that the Multan PoP node was under observation for many days. Now its working fine with little bit of un-reachability. It has been added back to the list of Monitors in the meta database.
Potential projects
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