ROHD-1840: Use NFS to share parsets across instances. This also works for...

ROHD-1840: Use NFS to share parsets across instances. This also works for tests, as those run only on a single machine.

RTCP/Cobalt/GPUProc/src/scripts/Cobalt_install.sh

@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ ln -sfT ~lofarsys/lofar-userdata/var var
 # Sym link installed etc/parset-additions.d/override to common location.
 ln -sfT ~lofarsys/lofar-userdata/parset-overrides etc/parset-additions.d/override
 
+# Sym link installed var/ to NFS location.
+ln -sfT /opt/shared/lofar-userdata nfs
+
+
 # Set capabilities so our soft real-time programs can elevate prios.
 #
 # cap_sys_nice: allow real-time priority for threads

RTCP/Cobalt/GPUProc/src/scripts/runObservation.sh

@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ rm -f $FEEDBACK_FILE
 
 if [ "$AUGMENT_PARSET" -eq "1" ]
 then
-  AUGMENTED_PARSET=$LOFARROOT/var/run/rtcp-$OBSID.parset
+  AUGMENTED_PARSET=$LOFARROOT/nfs/parset/rtcp-$OBSID.parset
 
   # Add static keys
   # Ignore sneaky .cobalt/ parset overrides in production (lofarsys).
@@ -444,25 +444,6 @@ fi
 
 echo "[cobalt] Hosts = $HOSTS"
 
-# Copy parset to all hosts
-cksumline=`md5sum $PARSET`
-for h in `echo $HOSTS | tr ',' ' '`
-do
-  # Ignore empty hostnames
-  [ -z "$h" ] && continue;
-
-  # Ignore hostnames that point to us
-  [ "$h" == "localhost" ] && continue;
-  [ "$h" == "`hostname`" ] && continue;
-
-  # Ignore hosts that already have the same parset (for example, through NFS).
-  timeout $KILLOPT 5s ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -qn $h "[ -f $PARSET ] && echo \"$cksumline\" | md5sum -c --status" && continue
-
-  # Copy parset to remote node
-  echo "Copying parset to $h:$PARSET"
-  timeout $KILLOPT 30s scp -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -Bq $PARSET $h:$PARSET || error "[parset] Could not scp parset to $h"
-done
-
 # ************************************
 # Start rtcp 
 # ***********************************

SubSystems/Online_Cobalt/test/testFuncs.sh.in

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ error()
 # Create runtime output directories if not exists.
 # Not done at build, because it is a post-install setting. Different in production.
 mkdir -p "$LOFARROOT/var/log" "$LOFARROOT/var/run" || error "Failed to create runtime output directories"
+mkdir -p "$LOFARROOT/nfs/parset/" || error "Failed to create shared directories"
 mkdir -p "$LOFARROOT/etc/parset-additions.d/override" || error "Failed to create runtime input directories"
 
 # Set all locales to "C" to avoid problems with, e.g., perl.