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Effective and Open System for Wavelengths Monitoring
AICT 2008, Athens, Greece, 8-13 June 2008
A. Binczewski1, Ł. Grzesiak1, E. Kenny2, K. Stanecki1, M. Stroiński1, R. Szuman1,
S. Trocha1, J. Węglarz1
1 Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Noskowskiego 12/14, 61-704 Poznan, Poland 2 HEAnet, 5 George's Dock, IFSC, Dublin 1, Ireland
Outline
• Wavelengths monitoring solutions
• Requirements for wavelengths monitoring
• Lambda Monitor software
• Deployments of Lambda Monitor
• Conclusion
• Future development of LM
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Motivations
• Network providers are moving towards the optical networks
• Researchers are increasingly using dedicated optical paths for creating high speed network connections
• Optical paths may span over multiple administrative domains and different vendors
• Open source is a key for research purposes
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Wavelengths Monitoring Solutions (1)
• Only few monitoring tools available for wavelengths monitoring
• Vendors of optical systems have created vendor-specific tools – such as for example– ADVA FSP Management Suite
• FSP Element Manager • FSP Network Manager • FSP Network Planner
– Alcatel• Alcatel 1320 Craft Terminal • Alcatel 1352 Compact Manager
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Wavelengths Monitoring Solutions (2)
• Biggest limitations and disadvantages in the mentioned before vendor-specific tools
– Lack of free and open source software
– Functionality dedicated for network operators only (not for wavelengths’ end-users)
– Lack of integration for multiple vendors and various equipment platforms
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Requirements for Effective Wavelengths Monitoring
• Assist and speed up the work of NOC
• Integrated user-friendly view of wavelengths
• Easy to identify alarms and localise faults
• Detailed information for each wavelength (configuration parameters & physical characteristics)
• Free & open source software
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Lambda Monitor Overview (1)
• SNMP-based (read-only polling)
• Simultaneous monitoring of many wavelengths used by user’s group
• Real-time notification of current problems occurring in the optical network
• Integrated view of wavelengths by means of graphical web-based interface
• Detailed information about the physical characteristics of individual wavelengths
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Lambda Monitor Overview (2)
• Implementation– PHP5– XHTML– CSS– JavaScript
• Integration with perfSONAR multidomain monitoring system developed in GÉANT2
• Released under GNU GPL version 3
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Lambda Monitor Architecture
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LM Server Architecture
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• Hierarchical user interface – one simple view for complex network and top-down approach to see more detailed information if needed
• Three levels of GUI (called layers)
– Lambdas layer
– Devices layer
– Parameters layer
• Current and historical alarms browsers
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User Interface
• Current status of monitored wavelengths (end-to-end view)
• Possible state of the wavelengths:
Lambdas Layer
OK state - lambda circuit works OK without any alarms
Warning state - occurs when some warning type alarms are present in the lambda circuit
Critical state - occurs when any of critical alarms appeared in lambda circuit
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Unknown state – lack of information about lambda circuit (snmp agent unreachable)
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Lambdas Layer Interface
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Devices Layer
• Current status of the interfaces terminating selected wavelength on DWDM devices
• Possible states of the interfaces:
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no alarms on device’s interface
warnings on device’s interface
critical alarms on device’s interface
lack of information about interface (snmp agent is unreachable)
Devices Layer Interface
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Parameters Layer
• Current values of various monitored parameters on selected device’s interface in the form of graphical tables
• Detailed information about many parameters which determine and impact the operation of wavelengths
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Parameters Layer Interface
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Alarm Browsing
• Current alarms browser
– Enables viewing of alarms that currently occur in the monitored wavelengths
• Alarms history browser
– Presents all the alarms that occurred formerly
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Alarm Browsing Interfaces
Current alarms
Alarms history
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Deployments of LM Software
Successfully deployed in two NRENs
– PIONIER - in Poland• Optical architecture of the network embraces 21 ADVA
FSP 3000 devices
• Monitors 24 of the 10Gbit/s wavelengths used in the PIONIER national backbone
– HEAnet - in Ireland• Optical architecture of the network consists of 17
ADVA FSP 3000 devices
• Monitors 14 of the 10Gbit/s point-to-point wavelengths used in the HEAnet national backbone
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Conclusion
• Optical network monitoring is very important and requires dedicated monitoring solutions
• Vendor-specific commercial applications dedicated for operators only on the market
• LM - open source tool with web-based GUI for both NOCs & users for wavelengths monitoring
• Fast, exact and user-friendly localisation of faulty wavelength circuits and possible failure reasons
• Successful tests and deployments
• Current development of LM under GÉANT2 - JRA421AICT 2008, Athens, Greece, 8-13 June 2008
Future Development of LM
• Main propositions for future LM development in the Emanics project
– Parameters archiving (historical values of monitored parameters in the form of charts)
– Monitoring and notification of configured thresholds exceeding
– Mail notification of current alarms occurring in monitored wavelengths
– Full system documentation & install packages for various distributions with user guide
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Lambda Monitor project websitehttp://lmonitor.man.poznan.pl
Thank you for your attention!
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Access to LM system for conference participantshttps://lmonitor.man.poznan.pl
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