Bug 7002

Summary: Collector writing non-usage packets to disk causes uploader to fail data file
Product: Metrics Reporter: Venkat Yekkirala <ysvenkat@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
Component: Usage StatsAssignee: Lee Liming <liming@mcs.anl.gov>
Status: NEW    
Severity: normal CC: jbasney@ncsa.uiuc.edu
Priority: P3    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: All   

Description From 2010-04-23 16:01:29
It has been noticed that when nmap is run as in the following, the collector
writes the
blob it receivers to the gup file. It has been noticed that the uploader chokes
on this
blob and fails the data file.

bob:/opt/globus-5.0.1 # nmap -sU -P0 -p 4810 localhost

Starting Nmap 4.00 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2010-04-23 11:25 CDT
Interesting ports on localhost (127.0.0.1):
PORT     STATE         SERVICE
4810/udp open|filtered unknown

Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 2.043 seconds
nereus:/opt/globus-5.0.1 #