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- + Responded via Doodle will attend; - Responded via Doodle but unable to attend on this date; Dr Shadi Aljawarneh unable to attend this week
Actual Attendees
Saqib (but we were unable to hear him), , Umar, Les, Bebo
Others
Administration
- Membership of pinger-my is in https://groups.google.com.
- Bebo pointed out that the International Web Conference will be in San Francisco in 2019 (see http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=77195©ownerid=85335). There are a whole range of topics. He would love to see something submitted related to PingER.
- Maybe something on Android PingER and potential uses.
- Bebo, possible interest in an MA in Jordan - 10/9/2018.
- It is a university of Science and Technology.
- Bebo is looking to send the Home page: http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/, plus Remote Host site invitation letter template, Monitor Host site invitation letter template:(txt, doc), form to register a host to the contact.
- They will attend this meeting. Dr. Shadi Aljawarneh <shadi.jawarneh@yahoo.com> skype ID shadi Jawarneh is unable to attend this meeting.
- I have invited Shadi to join the pinger-my email list. It timed out with no response.
- Next meeting to be determined by This meeting was scheduled with the aid of Doodle poll.
- It will be via Zoom, Umar is arranging. Attendees will need the Zoom APP available at: https://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting
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Jordan (last update 11/19/2018)
- We discussed the many uses of PingER data including:
- the impact on network performance of events such as earthquakes, tsunamis, civil uprisings, the world cup,
- exploring the data semantically e.g. byLinked Open Data
- Correlations with other indices such as economics, human development.
- We also discussed:
- development of new low cost, low power PingER Measurement Agents (MA) utilizing Android devices.
- the possibilities of developing/utilizing a decentralized logging/analysis/presentation structure using BlockChain. This would reduce the dependence on SLAC.
Umar sent Shadi two URLs on how to download and install the MA software and possible interests for students.
Les followed up with email 12/6/2018.
Action Items from previous meeting
- Figuring out how to move forward with the Android PingER project, in particular, scheduling a Skype meeting awaits Amity. Email reminder to Amity 12/6/2018.
- Wajahat: will provide a list of working or potentially working (e.g. being worked on) Pakistani MAs to Les. They are working on nodes as of email 10/6/2018.
- Johari: enter Umar and Dr. Taha into http://pinger.unimas.my/pinger/contact.php, Les sent reminder email 10/3/2018. No progress 11/16/2018
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- Amity MA is unreliable so using it for a case study does not appear fruitful. Les is working with Amity to try and understand this unreliability (emails to Amity 10/6/2018, 12/6/2018), they say "There is an internet problem we are taking care of it and will get back soon". Meeting planned soon (email reminder sent 12//6/2018)
Thailand (No Thailand (No update 8/9/2018, No update 9/6/2018, No update 11/19/2018)
Charnsak is looking at a host in Champasak University, Chan Parsa province in Laos as a potential site for a PingER MA. Charnsak just got approved to make contact with the Champasak University. He expects to set up the MA in the next 4-5 months (say towards end 2018). It also depends on the partner university, and there may be a lot of paperwork.
Email requesting update sent 12/6/2018.
UNIMAS (No update 8/9/2018, no update 9/6/2018, no update 10/7/2018, no update 11/19/2018)
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NUST: (No update 11/19/2018)
Les sent email to Wajahat 12/6/2018 requesting update to the following:
Wajahat proposes to get a list of the new Universities in Pakistan and contact them encouraging them to participate in PingER and set up MA. They have made a list of new university sites, communications networks, Labs in different regions of Pakistan (especially the remote regions) and will make contact.
- The list of new universities is ready. Just need resources to engage them.
- Les pointed out that several Pakistani MAs have been disabled, i.e. the data is no longer gathered from them. From Wajahat 10/6/2018. "We are working on the nodes you have mentioned. The intern is new and trying hard to understand the programs. Hopefully within a week he will start repairing the nodes."
- Wajahat will provide a list of working or potentially working Pakistani MAs to Les, and if they are not enabled, Les will enter or re-enable the gathering of data from these MAs.
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- 121.52.146.180 (kohat.edu.pk) down since Nov 22/2017. Wajahat recommends continuing at least until the new student is up to speed (3/8/2018). No data available 3/24/2018. Disabled 10/3/2018. Wajahat emailed 10/12/2018.
- pinger.kohat.edu.pk status is that the concerned person is on leave and the other person doesn't know any status of the system at site.
- cae.seecs.edu.pk last time we were able to gather any data was February 27th. Disabled 8/19/2018. Wajahat emailed 10/12/2018.For several months we were unable to gather data from pinger.isra.edu.pk starting 3/6/2018, also it did not ping. Then it started working as of September 2nd, 2018 and we gathered data for 3 days. Failed again starting on Sept 5th. At this time (Sept 6th) it was pinging, however, all pings failed (i.e. no response after 31 pings). Now (10/14/2018) it is not pingable.
- cae.seecs.edu.pk status is that the system at node is totally out of order. The system isn't in working condition. The concerned person there requires full technical support on how the linux can be installed and used. He knows windows only. He also requires all the support on making the system run the pinger scripts etc.
- Wajahat now has a permanent staff engineer so that person can be trained on how to manage MAs and possibly improve the installation process. How is it going? What Pakistani hosts are now working, do I need to re-enable any hosts. The only hosts we try to gather data from are seen in http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/monitoring/checkdata/. They are:
comsatsswl.seecs.edu, maggie1.seecs.edu.pk, maggie2.seecs.edu.pk, monitor.seecs.edu.pk,
pinger.isra.edu.pk (no data since 5th Sept 2018, so it is a candidate to Disable),
pinger.nwfpuet.edu.pk, pinger.vu.edu.pk
UAF/GHZU (Updated 11/19/2018)
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| Host | State | last seen | Status |
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| pinger.gzhu.edu.cn | Is not working | 10/20/2018 | |
| sitka.triumf.ca | Host responds but no data gathered. Email sent to sitka contact, machine is old and suffered a power outage, flaky after recovery, ran pinger2.pl from command line. May be a problem with /tmp/ directory. Look at replacing with a VM. Machine rebooted and all is OK | 10/27/2018 | Fixed as of Oct 30th, 2018. |
| pinger.unesp.br | MA is working but it can only ping itself, sent email 10/30/2018, last good data was 10/25/2018. The MA can only ping itself. Emailed 10/30/2018. | 10/25/2018 | Fixed as of GMT: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 5:40:15 AM|
| pingersonar-um.myren.net.my | No response | 6/26/2018 | |
| pinger.isra.edu.pk | Down, it came up Sep 2-4, 2018. It is pinging, however, all the targets are not responding after 31 tries, email sent to Wajahat 9/18/2018. As of 10/14/2018 it is not pingable. | March 6, 2018 | |
| pingeramity.in | It has been working since 28th July. It is unclear how stable it is. It is down again 9/5/2018. Worked again from 9/24/2018 to 9/28/2018. Emailed Amity requesting clarification 10/3/2018. They are looking at it. | April 27, 2018 |
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