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  1. At most MAs (with the exception of SLAC), 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 copied to a directory associated with the MA  and read-write permissions set for group sf. We chose to use the FTP anonymous incoming directory path /afs/slac/public/incoming/pinger/proxy/ and this was set up. The PingER MA then copies the data to the above directory with the PingER MA host name subdirectoryMAhostnamesubdirectory, e.g.

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    169cottrell@pinger:~$ls -l /afs/slac/public/incoming/pinger/proxy/2001:da8:270:2018:f816:3eff:fef3:bd3/
    total 23277
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 saqibali sf  9360738 Jun  6 20:20 ping-2018-04.txt
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 saqibali sf 12394002 Jun  6 20:20 ping-2018-05.txt
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 saqibali sf  2079565 Jun  6 20:01 ping-2018-06.txt

    Since the user Ann does not have a SLAC user account this is done via anonymous ftp to ftp://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/incoming.  The first time Ann will need to create the directory for her site (, e.g. as seen above 2001:da8:270:2018:f816:3eff:fef3:bd3, i.e. having cd /afs/slac/public/incoming/pinger/proxy/, mkdir 2001:da8:270:2018:f816:3eff:fef3:bd3).

2. Due  to security concerns*, we cannot access anonymous incoming FTP space from a web CGI script such as ping_data.pl (that is used by getdata.pl) thus we first move the data from the FTP anonymous space via a local (non-web job) to a space accessible via the web

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