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Minutes from Metrics session
EGEE JRA4 Face to Face meeting, Edinburgh, 13 July 2005
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Present
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DANTE:  Loukik Kudarimoti (LK)
DL:     Mark Leese (ML)
UEDIN:  Ahmed Abdelrahim (AA), Ratnadeep Abrol (RA), 
        Kostas Kavoussanakis (KK), Alistair Phipps (AKP)

Actions arising
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[BV/SN] Create WP7 traceroute tool / token

[RA] Ensure DT supports traceroute display

[AKP] Modify netmon2rgma and object model to support traceroute (after tool
written)

[ML/RS] Resolve how to satisfy jitter and available bandwidth requirements (if
udpmon is adequate)

[KK] Make NMWG4RGMA modifications to allow GridFTP data to be retrieved via
NM-WG (after new NMWG4RGMA implementation produced)

Minutes
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Middleware need round trip jitter but ML thinks values from udpmon may not be
accurate.  ML/RS to investigate.

Ongoing issues with available bandwidth.  AKP raises point about udpmon taking
up excessive bandwidth.  ML points out that same tests were run for EDG and no
complaints were made then - does not think it is an issue.  ML/RS to continue to
investigate how to satisfy available bandwidth.

ML thinks traceroute requirement is a high priority and is needed by NOCs.  May
be possible to add traceroute to WP7.  Modification of netmon2rgma and object
model also needed.  BV/SN to create the WP7 traceroute tool, AKP to modify
netmon2rgma and object model.

ML does not think the application level protocols should be a high priority and
does not think they give us any network measurements.  KK points out the adding
NM-WG interface for GridFTP logs helps us get the tools deployed.  AKP/RA agree
that the service required to retrieve these logs is essentially NMWG4RGMA (since
the log data is available through R-GMA) but with a different configuration for
retrieval of fields and limiting of statistics supported.  KK will implement
this modification.  

AKP 14/7/2005