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Name

Null?

Data Type

Use

NODENAME

NOT NULL

VARCHAR2(100)

DNS host name

IPADDRESS

 

VARCHAR2(15)

IPv4 address

SITENAME

 

VARCHAR2(100)

Domain name of the node

NICKNAME

 

VARCHAR2(35)

Abstraction of the hostname with the TLD first.1

FULLNAME

 

VARCHAR2(100)

Human-friendly description of the node/site

LOCATION

 

VARCHAR2(100)

City and/or State/Province/Region for node^2^

COUNTRY

 

VARCHAR2(100)

Country for node

CONTINENT

 

VARCHAR2(100)

Continent or region where node is thought to be located^3^

LATANDLONG

 

VARCHAR2(25)

Latitude and longitude of node

PROJECTTYPE

 

VARCHAR2(10)

Flags describing how nodes are used^4^

PINGSERVER

 

VARCHAR2(100)

URL for requesting a ping from this node to another 5

TRACESERVER

 

VARCHAR2(100)

URL for requesting a traceroute from this node to another 5

DATASERVER

 

VARCHAR2(100)

URL for retrieving PingER data from this node 5

URL

 

VARCHAR2(100)

 

URL for the home page for the institution running the node

GMT

 

VARCHAR2(10)  

Node's time offset from GMT, not used

COMMENTS

 

VARCHAR2(4000)

 

Comments and notes on when and how the node's record was last updated ^ 6

APP_USER

 

VARCHAR2(20)

Windows user name of the last user to edit the node's record through the UI

CONTACTS

 

VARCHAR2(100)

Name and email address(es) of the node's maintainer(s)

PING_SIZE

 

NUMBER

Size of pings to be sent to the node - only controls SLAC's PingER install

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1. This field should be of the form: TLD.Rest of site domain.N# where # is a sequential number assigned to each node at a site. For non-US hosts not using their country code TLD, u8se the country code TLD at the start of the identifier and include the actual TLD in the site domain string. Examples: \

  • EDU.SLAC.STANFORD.N3 - third node at SLAC, hostname pinger.slac.stanford.edu
  • CH.CERN.N2 - second node at CERN, hostname wanmoninst1.cern.ch
  • AO.UCAN.EDU.N1 - first node at University of in Angola, hostname www.ucan.edu

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Location information is either provided by the site or is based off a geographic IP database like GeoIPTool.

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3 Some continents are broken up into sub-regions. A list of countries and continents can be seen at http://www.slac.stanford.edu/comp/net/mon/countries.txt.

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4 The various single character flags are described at: http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/slaconly/nodedetails-readme.

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5 These URLs should point to the complete URL for the script at the site, including the trailing '?' used to start the list of parameters to the script. If the script is not installed at the site or the service is not available (i.e. the site is not a PingER monitoring host), set the field to NOT-SET.

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6 The usual format of the comments is: <action>, by <username> <mm/dd/yy>.

User interface

A user interface for the table was created in Oracle's HTML DB / Application Express and can be accessed at https://oraweb.slac.stanford.edu/apex/slacprod/f?p=123:1. Authorized users are authenticated by their SLAC Windows credentials.

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