perfSONAR Information Services Update

Jason ZurawskiFeb 2, 2009Winter Joint Techs 2009, College Station Texas

Lookup Service

• Currently manages the registration of:• perfSONAR Services• Other Measurement tools:

• Owamp daemons• Bwctl daemons• NDT Servers• NPAD Servers• Reverse Traceroute Servers

• Consists of a two tier service structure:• hLS (‘Home’ Lookup Service)• gLS (‘Global’ Lookup Service)

Home Lookup Service

• Deploy within your domain• Configure services to register here• Communicates with known Global services• ‘Summarizes’ data set before sharing• Address/Netmask information is condensed• Domains are collected• Data Types• ‘Keywords’ (Personalized tags for communities,

e.g. LHC, USAtlas, etc.)

Global Lookup Service

• Deployed world wide by project partners• APAN• ESnet• Geant2• Internet2• RNP• University of Delaware

• Manage the ‘summarized’ data set from hLS instances

• Allow ‘discovery’ queries

Global Lookup Service

• Discovery Consists of ‘do you have’ type of queries:• Information for IP Range ‘WW’• Information for Domain ‘XX’• ‘YY’ Data Type (or ‘YY’ Service Type)• Community ‘ZZ’ information

• Available as web pages currently• http://www.perfsonar.net/activeServices/

• API work ongoing• Goal to provide web/command line use cases

Availability

• RPM Packages Available Feb 2009• Debian Packages TBD• Available on Performance Node: Live CD• http://www.perfsonar.net/download.html

Future Goals

• Performance Node Re-design• Adoption of RedHat based technology• Expected release 2nd Quarter 2009

• Lookup Service + Topology Service combination

• Security Considerations (AAA support)

More Information

• IS-WG• https://mail.internet2.edu/wws/info/is-wg

• Performance WG• https://mail.internet2.edu/wws/info/performance-wg

• Performance Node• https://mail.internet2.edu/wws/info/performance-node-

announce• https://mail.internet2.edu/wws/info/performance-node-users

• perfSONAR• https://mail.internet2.edu/wws/info/perfsonar-announce• https://mail.internet2.edu/wws/info/perfsonar-users