• This is a Work in Progress *

Custom built tool for provisioning a server in a bare metal automation system (MAAS in this instance), and kicking off a job of your choice to run and push to a Phoromatic server automatically.

Revisit, existing code was working with Ubuntu MAAS, need to circle back and clean it up prov role was using for spinning up resources in maas and injecting the benchmark file

The client tooling is useful for running a test on a client and pushing it to phoromatic automatically.

Uses Ubuntu 20.04LTS for the moment, can be expanded to other OS. You can run the server on metal or VM:

apt update
apt dist-upgrade
apt install -y php-cli php-zip php-xml php-sqlite3 php-gd tmux git
git clone https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite.git
cd phoronix-test-suite/
./install-sh

Under Rocky Linux 9, setup these dependencies:

dnf update
dnf install php-cli php-zip php-xml php-sqlite3 php-gd tmux git
git clone https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite.git
cd phoronix-test-suite/
./install-sh

Can then start the server in tmux:

phoronix-test-suite start-phoromatic-server

This will generate the config file that will then need to be modified. Modify /etc/phoronix-test-suite.xml and set desired remote access ports:

    <Server>
      <RemoteAccessPort>5001</RemoteAccessPort>
      <Password></Password>
      <WebSocketPort>5000</WebSocketPort>
      <AdvertiseServiceZeroConf>TRUE</AdvertiseServiceZeroConf>
      <AdvertiseServiceOpenBenchmarkRelay>TRUE</AdvertiseServiceOpenBenchmarkRelay>
      <PhoromaticStorage>~/.phoronix-test-suite/phoromatic/</PhoromaticStorage>
    </Server>

• Connect to http:https://ip:remoteaccesport in browser and set up initial user
• Once logged in, under systems, obtain phoronix url: ex: 10.0.100.178:5001/HNKOOO

Modify env_vars.yml and set phoromatic_endpoint to the url you obtained above. This will tell the client where to upload its results.

Run:

apt install -y ansible
ansible-playbook -i localhost bench.yml

This will install the necessary packages, setup the client and start the benchmark automatically. You can attach to the session with a tmux attach -d from the client to view the run. You will also need to click on systems in Phoromatic and approve the new machine that pops up.

Under Phoromatic Web Site, go to Tests, Build test suite. From there, give the test suite a name and assemble the desired tests you want in the suite. Once created, it will create a suite-definition on the phoromatic server. We are going to want to copy it from there and add it to our Ansible so that we can redeploy it on many hosts.

/var/lib/phoronix-test-suite/phoromatic/accounts/HNKOOO/suites/testtest-1.0.0/suite-definition.xml

You will want to copy the contents of that file to roles/bench/files/hw-qual-1.0.0/suite-definition.xml or you can the existing one as a start.

Modify env_vars.yml to reflect that updated test: local/hw-qual-1.0.0 (pts/compress-gzip was the original example given)

If you run ansible-playbook -i localhost bench.yml again on the client, it should update things and kick off a new test. Ultimately it creates start_benchmarks.sh in the /root of the client machine, so you can edit and adjust that file as needed to rerun tests instead of running the ansible.

Once results are successfully uploaded, you can load Phoromatic click the results at the top, and select the various runs and compare them together. It may take a few seconds for the results to load after hitting compare.

If you have issues downloading PDFs, you may need to increase the php max_execution_time from 30 to 360 by editing /etc/php/7.4/cli/php.ini on the Phoromatic server side. You can view the logs in /var/log/phoromatic.log if you have problems.