FW: New SC Global Beacon

[Terry Disz]

Is this in the Lib and WS?

Terry

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-scg03-l at bu.edu [mailto:owner-scg03-l at bu.edu] On Behalf Of
Eric Gauthier
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 3:32 PM
To: Scg03-Sites-L; Scg03sat-L
Cc: scg03-l
Subject: New SC Global Beacon

Hello,

With the show only two weeks away, the SC Global committee is finalizing
several tools to help us debug any last-minute problem with bringing
nodes
online as well as to troubleshoot problems during the show.  If you
haven't
already, please install the latest NLANR beacon which can be downloaded
from:

	
http://dast.nlanr.net/projects/beacon/newbeacon/beacon-0.9.06.tar.gz

Please make sure that you install 0.9.06 and, if you happen to be
running an
older version, please take a moment to upgrade.

If you haven't already, please send me an email with the IP address or
the
hostname of your audio, video, and display servers, and indicate which
one
will be running your beacon.  This information will help us help you and
other SC Global participants diagnose and resolve problems going
forward.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask!

Eric Gauthier
  Network Engineer
  617-353-8218 ~^~ elg at bu.edu
Boston University - Office of IT

At 06:33 PM 10/27/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As many of you know, the NLANR Beacon Server is an invaluable tool for
> diagnosing and debugging multicast problems.  Participating hosts
> periodically send out multicast-based hello's and log the hello's
which
they
> see, then the NLANR Beacon server aggregates all of this information
and
> presents a reachability matrix.  When a node begins to have trouble
with
> their AccessGrid streams, a quick check of the reachability matrix
helps
to
> determine if the cause is the multicast-enabled portion of your local
or
> wide-area network.
>
> Today, NLANR released an updated version of their second generation
Beacon
> Server and its associated client.  We'd like everyone to install the
new
> client on one of the systems that will be used for SC Global (i.e. the
> audio, video, or display server).  The client is located at:
>
http://dast.nlanr.net/projects/beacon/newbeacon/beacon-0.9.05.tar.gz
>
> Once you have installed and started the beacon client, you should see
your
> host appear on the NLANR Beacon page:
>
> 	http://beacon.dast.nlanr.net
>
> After you finish installing the beacon client, please send me an email
with
> the IP address or the hostname of your audio, video, and display
servers,
> and indicate which one will be running your beacon.  This information
will
> help us help you and other SC Global participants diagnose and resolve
> problems going forward.
>
> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask!