Monitoring Software Defined Networks
Network Management has traditionally provided us with lots of tools to do many different things. Unfortunately, the value provided by these tools is less than what was expected or what was needed. With the advent of Software Defined Networks (SDNs), we have an opportunity to correct some of the deficiencies that limited the value of traditional network management. We also have the opportunity to look at monitoring and managing networks with a new perspective, using the lessons from the past to help us make better design decisions.
In this webinar, we will examine several aspects of network management for SDNs and explore how network management can be improved, while providing useful information about these new forms of network.
Contents
- Monitoring the physical and virtual network infrastructure
- What about the SDN control system?
- Monitoring for software developers
- Monitoring for network engineers
- Examine SDN monitoring architectures
- Integrated with SDN controllers
- Separate monitor application (the traditional approach)
- Monitoring the hardware
- SNMP or something else?
- The case for and against a separate management network
- Collecting flow data
- Tracking dynamic network changes
- Mapping problems in the virtual space to the physical infrastructure
- Creating topology maps on demand
- Troubleshooting
- Existing tools
- New tools
- Wrap-up
About the Author
Terrance Slattery is a Principal Architect at NetCraftsmen, an advanced network consulting firm that specializes in high-profile and challenging network consulting jobs. Terry is currently working on network management, SDN, business strategy consulting, and interesting legal cases.
He is the founder of Netcordia, inventor of NetMRI, has been a successful technology innovator in networking during the past 20 years, and is co-inventor on two patents. He has a long history of network consulting and design work, including some of the first Cisco consulting and training. As a consultant to Cisco, he led the development of the current Cisco IOS command line interface. Prior to Netcordia, Terry founded Chesapeake Computer Consultants, which became a Cisco premier training and consulting partner. At Chesapeake, he co-invented and patented the v-LAB system to provide hands-on access to real hardware for the hands-on component of internetwork training classes.