Re: Machine-Friendly Output

["Eric L. Boyd" <eboyd --at-- internet2.edu>]

Phil,

If you want to do regularly scheduled, automated iperf tests, you might 
find bwctl helpful. It's a wrapper around iperf.

http://e2epi.internet2.edu/bwctl/

Eventually, you might find perfSONAR helpful.

http://www.perfsonar.net/

--Eric

Phil Bordelon wrote:
> Hello there.
>
> I've been using iperf to test connections between various machines in a
> number of different clusters we maintain.  I'd like to do something like
> this in a regularly-scheduled, automated way.  I can cook up a framework
> for bringing the servers up and down when necessary and the like, but I
> was wondering: are there any plans (or a hidden command-line option) to
> add more machine-friendly output for the client?  The current output is
> parseable, but something comma-delimited (or, shudder, XML) would be
> nice for use in automated scripts.
>
> Thanks, and apologies if I just missed something obvious.  (I did poke
> around a bit with Google, but didn't see anything that jumped out at
> me.)
>
>   

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