Installation on Debian

Starting with perfSONAR 3.4.2 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 (with limited support)

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 or Ubuntu 12 OS is supported. Other Debian flavours derived from Debian 7 or Ubuntu 12 might work too but are not officially supported. Ubuntu 14 is supported for the perfsonar-tools bundle only (see below).

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-release.list
wget -qO - http://downloads.perfsonar.net/debian/perfsonar-wheezy-release.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-endpoint

For Ubuntu 14, you should limit the installation to the perfsonar-tools bundle:

apt-get update
apt-get install perfsonar-tools

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-endpoint 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

Configuration

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.