Perfsonar and BWCTL

Setup Perfsonar

Installing perfsonar will take some time. Therefore we will give you a .ova file which you can import to your virtualbox. This will give youa vm with perfsonar installed.

• Please download the .ova file. Note down the location.

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• Go to the location where file is downloaded and double click the file.

• You will get a window asking whether you need to import. check the Reinitialize the MAC address of all network cards check box and Click import

• Click agree to the conditions.

• It will take some time to import. After a while you will get a perfsonar instant in your virtulbox.

• Select the VM and click Settings. Go to Network. In adapter 1 Select Bridged Adapter in the Attached to: drop down list. and Select the correct network interface (Which you are using). Click Ok.

• Now start the VM and Log in as root password is <Class Password>.

• Once you log in it will ask you to create a user for web administration. Give the username as admin. Give the password as class password.

• Then it will ask whether you want to disable root ssh log in and create a ssh user. hit enter. Give your name as the username. Give password as <Class Password>.

• Give the following Command. and find out your network interface name

  ifconfig
  

• You will get something like this. Which tells that your interface name is enp0s3

  enp0s3: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
          inet6 fe80::a00:27ff:fe06:dbb5  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
          ether 08:00:27:06:db:b5  txqueuelen 10000  (Ethernet)
          RX packets 48606  bytes 5307960 (5.0 MiB)
          RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
          TX packets 17461  bytes 1943813 (1.8 MiB)
          TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
  

• Now edit the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<Your interface name> and add the following lines. You can find your perfsonar IPv4 and IPv6 Addresses from the table

  IPADDR=<Your IP Address>
  GATEWAY=192.248.6.254
  NETMASK=255.255.255.0
  IPV6ADDR=<Your IPv6 Address>
  DNS1=192.248.1.161
  IPV6_DEFAULTGW=2401:dd00:1032:2::ffff
  

• Find the following line

  BOOTPROTO="dhcp"
  

and change it to

BOOTPROTO="static"

• Restart network service

  systemctl restart network