The status of PlanetLab is reported by several programs and tools that view different aspects of the nodes and their connectivity. The following is a list of some of the current status views of PlanetLab. Additional (non-functional) links are listed in the next section below.
CoMon |
Sortable status page (with various views) of all PlanetLab nodes. Values updated every 5 minutes, with 2-day histories. Shows major resource consumers.
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PlanetFlow
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Logs the outbound network activity of all nodes. You may search
the PlanetFlow archive server (http://planetflow-planet-lab.org),
or the PlanetFlow server running on every node (e.g., http://planetlab-1.cs.princeton.edu)
to identify the researchers responsible for any PlanetLab traffic
flow, particularly those that cause security complaints.
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CoTop |
Top-like display of slices on a node along with their resource
consumption. Uses data provided by the slicestat sensor.
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PLC_Monitor
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Monitor of current PLC nodes. Tracks status and rebooting of
nodes accross PlanetLab.
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CoDeeN |
Sortable status page of all nodes hosting CoDeeN. Values updated every
5 minutes, with 2-day histories.
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S3
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A snapshot of all-pair capacity and available bandwidth metrics updated
about every 4 hours. Also provided are estimated latencies between all
planetlab nodes as estimated by Netvigator, a scalable network proximity
and latency estimation tool developed at HP Labs. Bottleneck capacity of
a path is measured using Pathrate tool from Georgia Tech and available
bandwidth is measured using Spruce from MIT.
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SWORD
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Resource discovery tool for finding PlanetLab nodes meeting user-defined
resource availability criteria.
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Trumpet
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Open repository of data about nodes including information from sites.xml,
node configuration, and node availability. Includes rating services for
each node.
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Offline/Inactive Views of PlanetLab
The following links are currently offline.
Ganglia
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A distributed monitoring system providing detailed information on
cpu, memory, disk and network metrics across all hosts. All numeric
metrics are also aggregated at each level of the monitoring tree.
Metric histories are saved for viewing trends in data over hours or
years.
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IrisLog
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View PlanetLab resource usage and slice statistics using
IrisNet.
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iPerf
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A network bandwidth measurement tool using
Iperf
to provide all pairs bandwidth measurements.
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Node List
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Lists of the PlanetLab nodes. These lists can be fetched programmatically
to get a list of the current nodes.
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MapCenter
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MapCenter displays the
current status of collections of computers. This link displays a
geographical map of PlanetLab node availability.
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SliceStat
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Sensor server and archives of per-slice resource consumption
on individual PlanetLab nodes.
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SliceViz
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X windows application which provides continuous visualization of global,
per-slice resource consumption.
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Sophia Visualization
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Visualizes PlanetLab node and link behavior based on Sophia queries.
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