Monitoring Mini-Workshop

Organizers

Sarah Edwards, GENI Project Office

Time

Wed 1:00 - 2:30 pm

Description

Aggregrates, campuses, GENI meta-operations, and experimenters have an interest in sharing data, analysis, and techniques to support operations and experimentation at their location and also at entities they depend on. GENI monitoring includes the collection and analysis of data which supports this interoperability. GENI monitoring overlaps with Instrumentation & Measurement, but I&M will be discussed in a separate session.

Campuses, aggregates, and experimenters all have an interest in GENI monitoring capabilities as GENI participation increases over the coming months.

Participants in this workshop will discuss:

• What resources do campuses and experimenters need monitored?
• What resources are currently being monitored?
• What monitoring data would be easy and useful to share?

The discussion will be very practical, covering monitoring of particular resources such as OpenFlow, MyPLC, ProtoGENI nodes, and will attempt to apply lessons learned from the Plastic Slices project.

The outcome of the workshop will be a list of monitoring topics that are important to address in the next few months.

Agenda

• Intro - Sarah Edwards, BBN/GPO [10 min]
  • Define scope of GENI monitoring discussion
• Point of View Talks
  • Lessons learned from monitoring Plastic Slices - Chaos Golubitsky, BBN/GPO [10 min]
  • Sharing Data via GMOC - Camilo Viecco, Indiana University/GMOC [10 min]
  • OpenFlow Monitoring - Nick Bastin, Stanford/OpenFlow [10 min]
  • Campus and Experimenter Needs and Resources - Sarah Edwards, BBN/GPO [10 min]
    • What resources do campuses and experimenters need monitored?
    • What resources are currently being monitored?
    • What monitoring data would be easy and useful to share?
• Open Discussion - All [30 min]
  • Possible topics:
    • What tools are missing?
    • What agreements do we need? APIs? data formats? etc.?
    • Are there concerns about sharing data?
• Wrap Up/Conclusions [10 min]
  • Consensus on topics to discuss/resolve in coming months

Related activities at GEC

• Tues, 11am-3pm, Campus Track: OpenFlow Campus Deployment, Operations Update, Plastic Slices Report Out
• Thurs, 1pm, Software Track: I&M Session is discussing a schema for collecting measured data
• Wed, 6:30pm, BOF Dinner: Monitoring BOF Dinner (RSVP to ​Sarah Edwards)

Background Reading

Items marked FYI are additional reading for interested parties.

Many of the pages below are links to monitoring data and graphs so that we all know what kinds of data is already being published.

• Plastic Slices & GPO Campus Visualizations
  • ​GPO Campus Public Monitoring Visualizations - webpages visualizing data from GPO network
  • TangoGENI Monitoring Recommendations
  • GPO generated monitoring of TangoGENI sites used in Plastic Slices:
    • ​TangoGENI
    • ​Nagios
  • ​Last 10 minutes of data in XML format (at GMOC)
  • FYI: Plastic Slices Reports are covered at Plastic Slices Report Out on Tues at 2PM

• Data stored in GMOC database
  • ​OpenFlow data on SNAPP
    • Browse by: Node
    • Type of Data: Openflow switch(30s)
  • ​Nagios data
    • Try: "Tactical Overview" and "Host Groups"
  • ​Raw plastic slices data on SNAPP

• PlanetLab Monitoring
  • ​PlanetFlow website - supports the identification of the POC for IP traffic generated on a PL node
    • FYI: ​PlanetFlow article
  • ​Policy & Node monitoring - automated recovery of PL nodes
  • ​CoMon PL Node monitoring - PL node statistics