[atlas-sw-probes] RIPE Atlas sw probe testing kickoff

Hi,

This is the mail that may help you get started with software probes :-)

We're in the testing period, meaning we are authorising those who showed
interest (i.e. you) to apply for a software probe. I could do this to
about 2/3 of you, namely those whose RIPE Atlas SSO account I could find
(ie. same as in the testers' survey).

The kick-off documentation page for software probes is
https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/software-probe/. This has some general info
as well as description of how to install the RPM we maintain (CentOS7).
The actual page to apply for a software probe is
https://atlas.ripe.net/apply/swprobe/. This page is only available to
you if your SSO account is already known/authorised (see previous
paragraph). Let me know you get an error getting here [1].

Note that in order to apply for your probe, you need to tell us its
(SSH) public key. In turn we'll make a probe ID for you once the probe
is enabled (pretty soon after application). We'll add a means to replace
this key for an existing probe, in case you need to reinstall and lose
the original key material.

I'll send a separate mail about the current state of software packaging.

Cheers,
Robert


[1] make sure you have an SSO account (make one at
https://access.ripe.net/ if needed), then visit the Atlas website while
being logged in so that Atlas learns about you, and send me a mail