FW: New SC Global Beacon

[Ti Leggett]

Not currently. I'll add it to my list of things to get done before SC.

On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 15:39, Terry Disz wrote:
> 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!
>