PingER Tasks

PingER: Shahryar, Umar Khan, Les

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, on the other hand it may be useful for converting from the perfSONAR MP/MA format to PingER): Abdullah
      1. 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 finish this up or say Abdullah is not going to do it 3/20/07, Abdullah agreed to complete and send 3/22/07, Abdullah sent code but it needs indenting and some example documentation mail sent to Abdullah 4/4/07, Abdullah will have the code ready  by 5/3/07, code provided 5/10/07, indentation and commenting need work, still nothing from Abdullah 5/31/07, Stll nothing 7/26/07, Umar will decide if to give up)
   2. Extend ViPER to turn into front end for PingER, fix bugs and make extensions (see ViPER Extension Details and Mapping PingER Metrics, Nauman showed demo with one mon site 9/20/07): Nauman, Shahryar
      1. Add in real time reports (Shahryar has sent instructions, Nauman is studying, prototype in a couple of days 8/9/07): Nauman
   3. Ping-data.pl form only shows beacons.
      1. Need to point $sites_fn to pinger.xml instead of beacons.txt & check if the file is xml or flat (for backward compatibility): Shahryar
   4. Case Studies
      1. Case study for E. Asia to be led by Ajou university (they are working on it 7/26/07, sent list of hosts for E. Asia 8/30/07, no progress 9/20/07, Shahryar may take over): Umar
      2. Case Study for Africa: Shahryar
         1. Get IHY to provide URL with lat/longs (talked to IHY Barbara of NASA 6/27/07, Barbara wants to await IHy meeting in November 9/20/07, Get Shahryar to document how to update map): Les
   5. Monitoring Hosts: