Installation on Debian

For perfSONAR 3.5 we provide part of the perfSONAR toolkit as Debian packages for four different architectures. This should enable you to deploy a perfSONAR measurement point on one of the following distributions:

• Debian 7 Wheezy
• Ubuntu 12 Precise
• Ubuntu 14 Trusty

Here are some instructions to get you started with the perfSONAR toolkit on Debian hosts.

System Requirements

• Hardware: We provide Debian packages for 4 different architectures:
  • 32-bit (i386)
  • 64-bit (amd64)
  • ARMv4t and up (armel)
  • ARMv7 and up (armhf)
• Operating System: Any system running a Debian 7, Ubuntu 12 or Ubuntu 14 OS is supported. Other Debian flavours derived from Debian 7 or Ubuntu 12 or 14 might work too but are not officially supported.

Installation Instructions

All you need to do is to configure the perfSONAR Debian repository source, along with our signing key, on your Debian/Ubuntu machine. This can be done with the following commands:

cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
wget http://downloads.perfsonar.net/debian/perfsonar-wheezy-3.5.list
wget -qO - http://downloads.perfsonar.net/debian/perfsonar-wheezy-3.5.gpg.key | apt-key add -

Then, after refreshing the apt packages list, you’ll be able to install one of the perfSONAR bundles:

apt-get update
apt-get install perfsonar-testpoint

During the installation you’ll be asked if you want to keep your current set of iptables rules, both for IPV4 and for IPv6. This is part of the usual installation process of the iptables-persistent package that we use to setup the firewall protecting your perfSONAR node. Whatever you answer to the question, your current rules will be saved as part of the perfsonar-toolkit-security package installation.

Bundles Description

The two bundles we currently provide for Debian contains the following packages:

• perfsonar-tools contains all the tools you need to make measurements from the CLI:
  • iperf and iperf3
  • owamp client and server
  • bwctl client and server
  • ndt client
• perfsonar-testpoint contains the perfsonar-tools and the perfSONAR software you need to get your perfSONAR measurement point part of the global perfSONAR measurement infrastructure:
  • ls-registration daemon
  • regular-testing daemon
  • oppd
  • toolkit-security containing iptables rules to protect your node, see Firewalls and Security Software for more details
  • toolkit-sysctl fine tuning your host for better performance measurements, see Host Tuning for more details

Configuration

Be sure your host has ntp configured and the clock sync is good. If you want to use the standard perfSONAR toolkit configuration, you can install the package perfsonar-toolkit-ntp.

If you’re used to the perfSONAR toolkit deployed on a CentOS/RHEL host, the configuration files for the different perfSONAR tools are the same as for the regular toolkit, but they are located in a different location. You’ll have to look for configuration files directly in /etc/:

• /etc/bwctl/ for the bwctl server
• /etc/owampd/ for the owamp server
• /etc/perfsonar/ for the oppd, the ls-registration daemon and the regular-testing daemon

Also, the name of the services are a bit different from the CentOS/RHEL ones, Debian services names are:

• bwctl-server
• owampd
• perfsonar-lsregistrationdaemon
• perfsonar-oppd-server
• perfsonar-regulartesting

Support

Support for Debian installations is provided by the perfSONAR community through the usual communication channels.