PerfSONAR Working Group
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Members: Thomas Tam (Leader), Jeff Boote, Lars Fischer, Dongkyun Kim, Ronald van der Pol, Olav Kvittem and Kwangjong Cho, Jun Jian
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Summary
Lightpaths, nowadays, is getting more and more complicated. Most of the GLIF related lightpaths, not only they could span multiple domains, and also underlaying network infrastructure of each domain could be different. The underlaying technology could be L2VPN, MPLS, EPL service, etc... Monitoring lightpath status is getting harder and harder, and becomes much more challenging.
During the 2007 Winter GLIF meeting in Hawaii, we discussed that what would be the best approach to address this issue. We all agree that passive monitoring for a lighpath across multiple administration domains is necessary and is important for NOC operators and users. So that NOC operators and end users can quickly isolate the problem area.
First we need to identify an application that suites what we need. It seems that perfSONAR is the only one that supports multi domains monitoring collaboration. LHCOPN NOC is currently using perfSONAR to monitoring all the LPCOPN lightpaths. That could be the lightpath monitoring solution that GLIF participants could adapt for cross-domain lightpaths.
A small working group was formed to setup a trial to explore the ability of perfSONAR. The deadline of the trail is by the next GLIF meeting in Seattle, the test results and demos should be presented during the meeting.
Objectives
The objectives of this trial/demo are:
- To explore the ability of perfSONAR monitoring infrastructure
- Setup a trial monitoring infrastructure across multiple GOLEs
- Monitoring is focused on a static configured lightpath
- Examine various monitoring status GUIs
- Present test results and demos in the GLIF meeting
- Present recommendations to the GLIF community in the next GLIF meeting
Participants
| Institution | Name | |
| SARA/SURFnet | Ronald van der pol | Ronald.vanderPol@rvdp.org |
| UNINETT | Olav Kvittem | olav.kvittem@uninett.no |
| Internet2 | Jeff Boote | boote@internet2.edu |
| CANARIE | Thomas Tam | thomas.tam@canarie.ca |
| CANARIE | Jun Jian | jun.jian@canarie.ca |
| KRLight | Dongkyun Kim | mirr@kisti.re.kr |
| KRLight | Kwangjong Cho | kjcho@kisti.re.kr |
| Nordunet | Lars Fischer | lars@nordu.net |
Documentations:
perfSONAR documentations
- Jeff - presentation on perfSONAR infrastructure http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=d2rpjwb_44ngfp9jhs
- Deployment instructions for perfSONAR-PS status service http://code.google.com/p/perfsonar-ps/wiki/DeployingStatusService (I will add some references to higher-level documentation when it is ready.)
Lightpath setup
Test Lightpath setup criteria
- The lightpath should span multiple GLOEs
- If possible the lightpath should consist of different underlying technologies
- The capacity of the test lightpath isn't important, it could be as low as a sts3c circuit.
Software Deployment Status and Instructions
Please refer to the perfSONAR Glif Demonstration page for a summary of the current deployment status across all domains.
Test cases
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Milestones (Draft)
- Mar 30, 2008 – Complete perfSONAR web site
- April 30, 2008 – identify test cases
- May 30, 2008 – setting up perfSONAR servers
- Jun 30, 2008 – intergrating all perfSONAR servers
- July 30, 2008 – perfSONAR should be up and running
- Aug 30, 2008 – perform testing, gather results
- Sept 30, 2008 – perform testing and gather results
- Oct 1, 2 - next GLIF meeting
Meeting/Conferemce call notes
- 28 Feb., 2008 - Initial project conference call PerfSONAR_Working_Group/28Feb2008minutes
- 14 Mar., 2008 - Completed 2 out of 3 action items from the last conference call. a) The project wiki site and draft test lightpath. The mailing list should be done soon.
- 16 Apr., 2008 - The mailing (perfsonar@glif.is) is now in place.
- 4 June, 2008 - Thomas sent out updates
- 17 July, 2008 - Thomas sent out updates. The setup of the demo lighhtpath should commence soon.
- 20 July, 2008 - Jeff confirmed that the Internet2 portion of the lightpath won't be available until July 28.
