VIAIPÊ: LAST MILE NETWORK VISIBILITY AT RNP

Rafael de Oliveira Ribeiro

Sr. Network Operations Analyst, RNP© 2016 Internet2

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CONTENTS

ViaIpê: Last-mile network visibility at RNP

• Background

• Motivation

• ViaIpê portal

• Future work

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Background

• A national R&E network

– Tiered network operation

• 27 PoPs and a backbone NOC

• Degrees of autonomy

• Personnel and their expertise

• Geographic dispersion: 1000+ campuses,

multi-state connections

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Motivation

• From a client’s perspective

– Multi-state institutions

– Credentials galore

– Different information formats

• Case in point: last-mile traffic statistics

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Motivation

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Motivation

• Drivers of change

– Multi-state institutions

• Simplified information

• Non-technical audience

• Credentials too many

– Transparency

• Public funding

• Non-sensitive piece of information

– Higher management

• Backbone weathermap example – should it be extended to our clients?

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Motivation

• Choices considered:

– Brute force

– Integration

– Something else

• Inspiration

– Much of the data is already available – can’t we use them?

– “Many Eyes” website.

– Weathermap popularity

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ViaIpê portal

• Unified access

– Centralised, map-based display.

– No logins needed!

• Technical details

– Distributed architecture.

– Known software: Cacti and Smokeping.

– Commit-based configuration control.

• Outsourced Development

• URL: http://viaipe.rnp.br

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ViaIpê portal

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http://viaipe.rnp.br/

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ViaIpê portal – Controls

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Home button

Disaggregate

Zoom

Search

Filters

http://viaipe.rnp.br/

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ViaIpê portal – Disaggregated view

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http://viaipe.rnp.br/

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ViaIpê portal – Zoomed out view

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ViaIpê portal – Search

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ViaIpê portal – Filtering

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Institution

PoP

Quality

Packet loss

Download (%)

Upload (%)

Sample

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ViaIpê portal – Filtering example

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ViaIpê portal – Filtering results

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ViaIpê portal – Regional view

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ViaIpê portal – State level

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ViaIpê portal – Mouse-over display

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ViaIpê portal – Detailed view

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ViaIpê portal – Detailed view

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ViaIpê portal – Detailed view

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ViaIpê portal – Detailed view

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ViaIpê portal – Detailed view – Quality measurements

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ViaIpê portal – Results

• Troubleshooting and escalation

– Better communication

• Expanded analysis of last-mile access

– Filtering.

– Statistics applied to capacity planning

• Unplanned outcomes!

– Portal being used by providers

– Enhanced stakeholder management!

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Future work

• Enhancements

– Filtering

– Quality measurements

– Commits and deployment.

• Features

– REST interface and systems integration: ERP, monitoring engine.

– Central server redundancy.

– Other visualisations.

– Data persistence for historical and trend analysis.

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Special thanks to

• Development team

– Rafael Emerick Zape de Oliveira

– Wancharle Quirino

– Guilherme Meira

– Romulo Rosa

– Gabriel Moulin

• RNP PoPs – all of them!

– Timely feedback

– Patience

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VIAIPÊ: LAST MILE NETWORK VISIBILITY AT RNP

Rafael de Oliveira Ribeiro

Sr. Network Operations Analyst, RNP© 2016 Internet2

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Backup Slides

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ViaIpê portal – architecture overview

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ViaIpê portal – Central server admin interface

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ViaIpê portal – Central server admin interface – Debug view

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ViaIpê portal – Collector admin interface

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ViaIpê portal – Collector admin interface – Institution edit

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ViaIpê portal – Collector admin interface – Commit Control

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ViaIpê portal – Technical info

• Base system

– 8GB RAM / 40GB storage / 2 vCPUs

– Debian Linux, Kernel 3.2

– PHP 5, nginx 1.2

– cacti 0.8, smokeping 2.0

– Python3, angularJS and nodeJS code

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