[AG-TECH] Problem with the beacon?

[John I Quebedeaux Jr]

Echoing my 2 cents; FYI: I'm getting the same thing. Restarting my 
AGPIG completely I noticed cleared up the data on the beaconserver. The 
rest of my machines show ID - so I'll go restart those when I get a 
chance.

John Q.

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John I. Quebedeaux, Jr.
LSU Biological Sciences
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On Monday, April 21, 2003, at 11:31  AM, Cindy Sievers wrote:

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>  Our beacon is strange as well.  Sometimes I see it on the beacon
>  web page
>  and sometimes I don't.  I spoke with ESnet about this and they
>  seemed to
>  think it is something that has to do with the beacon web page.
>  But ESnet
>  assures us that we are transmitting and receiving ok.  I've
>  experienced the
>  same thing as Bob, when I restart the beacon, it doesn't display.
>  When I
>  reboot, it does.  But then it is not displayed after some period
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>  time.  I can't find the pattern, but I'll keep looking.  The
>  beacon process
>  seems to be running fine all along.
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>  At 11:48 AM 4/21/2003 -0400, Bob Riddle wrote:
>> don't ask me to explain this .. but I restarted the beacon on
>> cakebox12.internet2.edu & waited for 15-20 minutes ... nothing.
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>> I then rebooted cakebox12 and WHOOPEE!  It now shows up on the
>  beacon page
>> looking alive & well.  I don't get it ... but I'll reboot the
>  other
>> cakeboxXX.internet2.edu and see if they heal as well.
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>> Bill Nickless wrote:
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>>> At the moment, the beacon web page shows that the beacon
>>> vrvs-ag.internet2.edu is sending and receiving traffic properly.
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>>> I'm sure you know this, but for everyone else reading these
>  lists--don't
>>> forget that the http://beaconserver.accessgrid.org:9999/ web
>  page only
>>> updates every 2 minutes.  Look at the Time: field in the upper
>  left
>>> corner of the page to make sure it's actually been updated when
>  you hit
>>> "refresh".
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>>> At 08:49 AM 4/21/2003 -0400, Bob Riddle wrote:
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>>>> vrvs-ag.internet2.edu.  I'm in the office today so I can
>  restart the
>>>> cakeboxXX.internet2.edu beacons as well (if necessary).
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>>>> Bill Nickless wrote:
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>>>>> Hi Bob,
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>>>>> Which beacons did you restart?  I would like to look to see if
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>>>>> reports are making it to the server, and that their traffic is
>  making
>>>>> it to the outside world.
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>>>>> There could still be a problem, but I would like to look at
>  specific
>>>>> beacons to verify it.
>>>>>
>>>>> At 09:29 PM 4/20/2003 -0400, Bob Riddle wrote:
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>>>>>> I've done this - but no luck.  What could have changed at all
>  these
>>>>>> beacons recently?    Bart Kerver  suggested I check the
>  "user-name" in
>>>>>> the script to ensure it was "beacon".  It is ... but still
>  doesn't
>>>>>> seem to matter.  Maybe I'll setup a different beacon server
>  tomorrow &
>>>>>> set up beacon viewers in Denver, Florida, & Ann Arbor to see
>  if all I
>>>>>> see is "ID".
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>>>>> ===
>>>>> Bill Nickless    http://www.mcs.anl.gov/people/nickless
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>>>>> 7390
>>>>> PGP:0E 0F 16 80 C5 B1 69 52 E1 44 1A A5 0E 1B 74 F7
>>>>> nickless at mcs.anl.gov
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>>> Bill Nickless    http://www.mcs.anl.gov/people/nickless      +1
>  630 252 7390
>>> PGP:0E 0F 16 80 C5 B1 69 52 E1 44 1A A5 0E 1B 74 F7
>>> nickless at mcs.anl.gov
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