The perfSONAR-PS PingER service is an evolution of the PingER project (http://www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/) with more than 10 years experience in collecting and analysising network performance across the world. The perfSONAR-PS PingER service is composed of both a storage backend (MA) and measurement frontend (MP) to conduct and store ping measurements and to make available such data for consumption by interested parties.
| current version: 3.1 |
use cases
related projects
Network characteristics supported include availability, latency and jitter, which provide a broad spectrum of determining end-to-end network performance.
perfSONAR-PS PingER is designed to be scalable enough in order to accommodate hundreds of monitored pairs of hosts and uses a relational database backend (MySQL, Postgres, SQLite) to efficiently store and retrieve such performance information.
perfSONAR-PS PingER also supports the registration of data through perfSONAR LS's to faciliate the dynamic discovery and querying of unknown deployments.
The MA provides a web service interface based on NMWG XML that allows queries on the PingER data and to be consumpted by perfSONAR client applications and services alike.
installation and configuration
General documentation for the perfSONAR-PS pingER Service is available:
Specific documentation for the perfSONAR-PS pingER Service is available via text files through the download process.
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