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1. PingER web services: ?
   1. PingER & AMP Integration (AMP/NLANR has run out of funding, AMP will shut down 8/31/06. Given the demise of AMP this may need to be changed to integration with PerfSONAR): Asif
      1. Document work with AMP integration (hope to complete 11/18/06): Abdullah
      2. Extend to provide perfSONAR data reading front end: Abdullah, Asif
      3. Install & integrate code at SLAC: Abdullah
      4. Working on password protection: Abdullah
      5. Improve code, make production quality, automate getting data (requested with suggestions 8/20/06, making progress hope to be done in 3-4 days 8/31/06, sent back to SLAC, SLAC responded further formatting etc. improvements needed 9/12/06, we need to either fnish this up or say Abdullah is not going to do it 3/20/07, Abdullah agreed to complete and send 3/22/07): Abdullah
      6. Get account (has this been done 11/29/06?): Abdullah
      7. Integrate with pingtable.pl: Abdullah, Jerrod
         1. Create AMP file directory: Jerrod
         2. Set up daily crontab:  Jerrod
         3. Set up analyze-hourly etc: (Done)Jerrod
         4. Add src & dst amp nodes to Guthrie: Jerrod
         5. Think about retrieving older data (find out how long ago there is data for): Jerrod, Adnan
         6. AMP and Pinger data comparison: Abdullah
   2. Smokeping & PingER Integration: Asma, Asif (took over from Shahryar, Shahryar will provide Asif information of current status)
      1. Install at SLAC: ShahryarAsif
         1. Make code available via FTP then Shahryar will download: Asma, Shahryar
         2. Install on test www server (Does not work): Shahryar, Asif, Les
         3. Review code for security and update as neeeded (Shahryar has done and waits Asma updates 2/1/07, need to shift from flora to iepm-resp, she has been told and she has access): Les, Shahryar, Asma
      2. Change from 90 to 120 days - Asma
      3. Look at adding visualization of uptime: Asma
      4. Look at how to dynamically change the config file for Smokeping to accomodate the step interval (maybe time consuming, may affect all users and be cumbersome): Asma
      5. Look at using Smokeping to determine the quality of home links in Pakistan: Asma
      6. Will use as a top level access to PingER and also as links from Pingtable to display last 45-90 days using smokeping: Asma, Yee
   3. Provide real time access to cached data
      1. Do for SLAC
         1. Decide on how to extend to other monitoring sites, try with NIIT: Akbar, Umer
         2. Hassan is looking into the code sent by Fawad (next step is to get ML web services client to get data): Akbar, Hassan
   4. Ping-data.pl form only shows beacons.

      1. Wiki Markup
         -Document in FAQ \[Done 2/20/07\]: Les-

      2. Need to point $sites_fn to pinger.xml instead of beacons.txt & check if the file is xml or flat (for backward compatibility): Shahryar
      3. Added item to FAQ to cover: Les
   5. Monitoring Hosts:
      1. NTC hosts, they agreed to install PingER2 at their 3 backbone sites (NTC management has changed, NIIT shifted from NTC to PERN, does not look promising): Arshad, Azher
      2. Pakistan hosts

         1. Wiki Markup
            -NTC is down since Oct 17th (-{_}{-}NTC management has changed, Arshad will contact upper management 12/4/06{-}{_}{_}-)-_ -\[After talking to NTC does not sound likely this will be restored, 1/11/07\]: Azher, Jerrod-

         2. PERN does not ping and reverse traceroute server is down (need to decide whether to give up on this host and remove it from our list of hosts to use for PingER and TULIP, awaits presentation to PERN/NTC, presentation to PERN made by Les 3/15/07, they are agreeable, need to move forward, Azher is working the issue with Anwar 3/29/07): Azher
         3. PERN would like to provide own archive analysis host (Les has sent URL describing tools needed on archive/analysis host, it maybe that iepm-bw would be more useful to them, however installing iepm-bw is non-trivial, or revive the real time PingER plots):

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