[atlas] RIPE Atlas User-Defined Measurements Are Here!

* Andreas Strikos

> On 4/3/12 4:06 PM, Tore Anderson wrote:
>> 1) I first entered a traceroute UDM to olapaok.gr (ID 1001613). It got
>> the description «Traceroute to 87.238.36.36(olapaok.gr)». The I entered
>> a traceroute6 query to www.vg.no (ID 1001615). However, for some reason
>> it ended up getting the same description as the first one.
> Yes, if you had opened the form before some fields are cached and if you
> don't change them they will remain as they were before.

The UDM description appears to be generated by the system. There is, as
far as I can can tell, nowhere I can set a custom description when
creating the UDM, nor can I change it after the UDM has been created.

>> 4) It's been half an hour since I submitted the measurements but still
>> no results (scheduled them as ASAP). It would be nice if results started
>> coming back a bit quicker - especially if I'm submitting a UDM for the
>> purpose of debugging some ongoing connectivity problem.
> We are aware of this. It's already in our to-do list. For now, you can
> specify smaller frequency of you measurement so you will get it a bit
> earlier.

Another thing I came to think of here is that it would be nice with the
possibility to do a one-off measurement. I tried playing around with
setting the End field to the past or immediately in the future, and the
Interval really low, but it wouldn't let me add it because it
incorrectly calculates that it would cost too many credits - it appears
to be rounding up the duration of the UDM to 24 hours, I think.

Also, it would be nice with a facility to search for probes, at least by
ASN and country, so that you can find the perfect probe(s) to run a UDM
from when debugging a specific problem.

Best regards,
-- 
Tore Anderson
Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com/