[mat-wg] Atlas UDMs and Probe-Assignments

Hi,

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:45:03AM +0200, Robert Kisteleki wrote:
> > The difference would be, of course, if someone runs long-running
> > trends and you stop/start (variant 3) and re-schedule all the probes,
> > their experiment might be ruined - so for them, variant 4 would be
> > better.
> 
> Sure. These seem to be different use cases, so the best approach seems to
> be to support all of them (eventually).

Well, that's sort of what I tried to express :-) - "it makes sense to have
all of these options, as different users need different behaviours".

[..]
> > While at it... :-) - I noticed that the measurements I set up were a
> > bit over the top (read: eating up way more credits than my single probe
> > is creating, and also eating up more than "+1m" can replenish).  So I
> > wanted to adjust the test parameters slightly - reduce the number of
> > packets from "5" to "3", reduce the number of probes from "100" to
> > "50", etc. - and the user interface won't let me do that.
> > 
> > Is this a local browser / operator problem, or an "this is just not
> > supported by the software and maybe never will" missing feature?
> 
> The later one. We didn't really hear (so far) from users that this would
> be a useful feature. We could develop features to add or remove individual
> probes to/from existing measurements, through some kind of UI or API calls.
> 
> > (Uh, and I just find that I can't seem to restart one of the UDMs
> > either if I ever stop it - intentional, or ui/operator error?)
> 
> See above -- it's very valuable to us to hear such requests from you.
> Regarding this particular case, keep in mind restarting an older
> measurement would have its own problems, e.g. it's entirely possible that
> the same probes cannot be allocated the second time around. That'd lead to
> all kinds of odd cases.

For me, when editing "fundamental" options (number of probes, or restarting
an already-terminated UDM), basically re-scheduling the UDM from scratch 
as if newly entered into the system, with a completely freshly allocated 
list of probes, would be perfectly fine.  It still saves on having to 
re-enter all the data, and being re-assigned a new number.

OTOH, for changing things like packet size or number of packets, it would
be nice to keep the list of assigned probes.

Gert Doering
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