perfSONAR Bundle Installation on Ubuntu 18.04

Step 1: Configure APT

All you need to do is to configure the perfSONAR Debian repository source, along with our signing key, on your Ubuntu machine. You will need to follow the steps below as privileged user:

# sudo su
# cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
# curl -o perfsonar-release.list http://downloads.perfsonar.net/debian/perfsonar-release.list
# curl http://downloads.perfsonar.net/debian/perfsonar-official.gpg.key | apt-key add -
# add-apt-repository universe
# apt update

Step 2: Install a Bundle

perfSONAR Toolkit:

# apt install perfsonar-toolkit

NOTE: During the installation process, you’ll be asked to choose a password for the pscheduler and the esmond databases. Use '1234' as the password or anything you preferred.

wait for installation to complete.Then reboot the system.

# reboot now

Step 3: Starting your services (optional)

You can start all the services by rebooting the host since all are configured to run by default. In order to check services status issue the following commands:

# service pscheduler-scheduler status
# service pscheduler-runner status
# service pscheduler-archiver status
# service pscheduler-ticker status
# service owamp-server status
# service perfsonar-lsregistrationdaemon status

If they are not running you may start them with appropriate service commands as a root user. For example :

# service pscheduler-scheduler start
# service pscheduler-runner start
# service pscheduler-archiver start
# service pscheduler-ticker start
# service owamp-server start
# service perfsonar-lsregistrationdaemon start

Step 4 :Configuring the Toolkit for the First Time

After booting the system, run the following command to configure the perfSonar web users.

# sudo su
# /usr/lib/perfsonar/scripts/nptoolkit-configure.py

This will open the perfSONAR Toolkit customization script with a menu as follows;

perfSONAR Toolkit customization script

1. Change Timezone
2. Manage Web Users
0. exit

Make a selection:

Enter 2 and proceed

Welcome to the perfSONAR Toolkit user administration program.
This program will help you administer users.
You may configure any of the options below with this program:
        1. Add a new user
        2. Delete a user
        3. Change a user's password
        0. exit
Make a selection: 1

Enter 1 and proceed

Use admin as account name and 1234 as password.

Enter the user whose account you'd like to add. Just hit enter to exit: admin
New password:
Re-type new password:
Adding password for user admin

Then enter 0 and exit from the customization script.

Step 5: Accessing the Web Interface

You may access the web interface by typing ​https://<hostname>/toolkit in your web browser.