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Automated Process (updated by trscronjob)
reflector.cgi
This is run twice nightly by the trscrontab on pinger@pinger.slac.stanford.edu to ping the target www.slac.stanford.edu. The first time it uses all enabled landmarks (the default). The second time it uses the disabled landmarks. Running it regularly ensures the tulip log files are current and therefore the analysis is also current.
tulip-tuning.pl
Using the results from the analysis script we can identify the hosts and their success percentages. We opted to disable all the hosts which were having success less than 20%. The above mentioned script is in /afs/slac.stanford.edu/package/pinger/tulip and it performs the listed functions. It uses the LWP package to access the webpage, download downloads the analyzed tulip log file, saves it in a file and then parses the output to get the faulty landmarks (i.e. the ones below 20% success rate by default). It is run nightly (see the trscrontab) before the sites.xml is created and specifies using the tulip log file for the last 3 days.
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