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Netw work monitoring A Automation Agenda ● Motivations ● History ● Demo ● Next steps

Mo tivations ● Nagios – Historical choice – Large community – widely used (> 1.000.00 widely used (> 1 000 00 00 users) 00 users) – A lot of development aro ound it. – Lars Michelsen : http://nagios.larsmichelsen.com/nagios-is-dead-no- -it-is-not/#more-2004 – – Broaden view and take into account the addons.

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Co nclusion ● Not exhaustive list ( Check_MK , Icinga, .. ) .. ● Nagios is still alive and performa ant ( fault monitoring, SLA ..) ● But Nagios is an heavy tool – requiring a lot of daily maintena requiring a lot of daily maintena ance work (text based ance work (text based configurations). – Not easy to implement nor keep p it running. ● Need for more : – Umbrella ● Automates building / managing g the monitoring tools ● Easy navigation ● What about inventory ..

Netw work monitoring A Automation Agenda ● Motivations ● History ● Demo ● Next steps

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Hi t Hist tory Spreadsheet ● Easy to build but .. – Discipline Discipline – Error prone – What if the information in the What if the information in the network does not match network does not match perfectly the one in the spread dsheet. ● Ideas : – all the info is in the network .. – Need a tool with an understan Need a tool with an understan nding of THE environment ( rules nding of THE environment ( rules ..) – If done properly, information c can populate other tools

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Proactive Monit toring Platform - - New re elease l - - new look Build on the community (out of the e shelve) ● Umbrella .. integrate different proje ects ( Map, Graphs, ..) ● OMD ● Move away from one code does it y t all .. simplification p ● Completely re-written ● – Orthogonal approach: look (CS Orthogonal approach: look (CS SS), html templates, rendering (h2o), SS) html templates rendering (h2o) content (Back-end). – Well known technology: Ajax, j jQuery, JSON, .. – Platform independent (browse r) – First release: same functionalit ties in a new suit – Modular, clear interfaces (Fron nt -end → Back -end interface → Back - end)

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P Proactive Monit ti M it toring Platform t i Pl tf Next steps Web site .. ● Configuration are build .. ● Integratation in OMD ( Graphs, W g ( p , Wiki, Maps, .. ); , p , ); ● Integrate all current functionalitie es ( MPLS LSP, OSPF discovery); ● Improve performance ( increase Improve performance ( increase number of checked services); number of checked services); ● ● Nagios dashboard ( where all inf formation can be found); ● Monitor new things ( ISIS, Integr Monitor new things ( ISIS Integr rate BGP); rate BGP); ● Push rules above ( let the user d decide) – Configuration tab; ● More: ● – Let's discuss on it

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