Agenda for SEECS/SLAC meeting October 23r 2010.

Pakistani case study – Fahad, Anjum

Zafar has offered to take the case study over. We need to make some progress on the Pakistani case study soon.

1. nwfpuet, uettaxila, uob are down for many days: see http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/monitoring/checkdata/).
   1. There were to be future visits to the provinces of Balochistan and KP (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa). Did these happen? Dr. Anjum was going to  contact UOB and UETTAXILA about their problems.
   2. Kashif Sattar of SEECS is deploying and managing hosts and contacts. Muhammad Zeeshan will slowly be taking over from Kashif Sattar (who is leaving if he is not granted an extension by NUST). Update, Dr Anjum
2. There has never been any data from  pinger-itc.pu, aiou, hu (Hazara), kohat, nca,  pwr.mu, ustb, since though the hosts are in the NODEDETAILS database there is no dataserver entry for each of then in the database. Should there be? They are identified as monitors. -  Even if I guess at the URL for a dataserver, e.g.  http://pinger.hu.edu.pk/cgi-bin/ping_data.pl there is no such web page. Dr Anjum, Zafar
3. UPesh problem: Dr. Anjum will email them about this. See http://pinger.seecs.edu.pk/checkdata/ and "try to get data" for UPesh. UPesh is gathering data but there is "0" at the end of each entry which means that it didn't receive anything back. It can only ping itself.
   1. Traceroute works. Moreover the node is pingable from SLAC which dismisses the possibility of pings being blocked
4. Dr. Anjum is verifying that table.pl at SEECS has all the known Pakistani monitors.
   1. About 10 nodes do not have complete information and thus aren't pinging other nodes. Dr. Anjum will look into this. This has to be done one by one in order to keep things clear.
   2. UET, UOB, LSE, COMSATS do not have the full set of Pakistani beacons. See matrix. The Pakistani monitoring nodes are supposed to get the beacon list from SEECS. – Anjum said he has a student who can fix but need password so they can fix the nodes so they get the list from the SEECS server.
   3. Dr. Anjum will also send information for those nodes which are missing from the nodes list. Is this complete? Dr. Anjum, Zafar 
5. There appears to be an anomaly in the RTTs to vle.iiu.edu.pk (AKA PK.IIU.EDU.N2) from the Pakistani monitors it is over 200ms while from SLAC as displayed in pingtable.pl it is 67ms. Yet if I do it from the command line it is ~ 310ms from pinger. The traceroute shows it as going via London and Singapore which suggests it is on its way to Pakistan. This needs investigating. Pingtable.pl is current as of yesterday so maybe something happened between then and when I pinged a few minutes ago. Also www.iiu.edu.pk has an RTT from SLAC of 177ms. TULIP shows it as in Europe.  Thus I have removed this host from the NODEDETAILS database since it is probably a proxy and not in Pakistan. 

Progress on ICFA Report 2011 - Zafar

Integrate into the report. Need to save all the spreadsheets in http://www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/icfa/icfa-net-paper-jan11/slaconly (AKA /afs/slac/www/xorg/icfa/icfa-net-paper-jan11/slaconly/):

1. 2010 Updates on Africa (done)
2. Inland African fibre optics (done)
3. African NREN (done)
4. Mean Opinion Score
5. Regions of the World graphs
6. Throughput graphs
7. PingER metrics (done)
8. Losse (done)

Zafar should involve Saadia. They are already working on HEC monthly report.

PerfSONAR

1. Can we install perfSONAR services on host in PERN network. Faisal is learning perfSONAR so at a later date this may be an interesting project.
2. Faisal is working with Yee. Progress - Faisal
3. Zafar - deploy PerfSONAR nodes at SEECS.

TULIP GUI - Faisal

All pending tasks completed.

Possible projects

See https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/IEPM/Future+Projects.

1. Extend the NODEDETAILS data base to allow entry support for whether the host is currenty pingable.
2. Extend the PingER map (also use for Pakistani to Pakistani subsset map for the case study)
   1. This adds ping, traceroute, access to database etc.
   2. The advantage compared to other traceroute maps is that the laundering keeps only good servers.

3. [Pending by Faisal] Dashboard for PingER management. Faisal will start correspondence with Amber.

4. [Pending by Zafar] Get the MatLab licsense at SEECS and put up a CGB server using it.

Future

Need to get commitment for Zafar's contribution from NUST end. Need to get invitation to Zafar

Umar has yet to talk at length with Anjum/Arshad. Any progress?

Paper - Umar, Fida, Zafar

1. [Pending - Umar] SVN for paper, Umar has set it up and it is working, Umar will send out the accounts.

2. Umar will take as the main/first author of the paper. Ali Khayam has put together a introduction
   identifying the main points.

Future meeting time - Les