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Open Networking Summit 2016

JEFF GEHLBACH

THE OPENNMS GROUP, INC

Adapting Open-Source NMS to an SDN Reality

16 Mar 2016

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YOUR SPEAKER

●C-64: 1982●Linux: 1994●IP networking: 1999●Network Management: 2000●OpenNMS: 2005●OpenDaylight: 2015

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TABLE STAKES

●IP networking basics●SDN / ODL fundamentals

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NETWORK MANAGEMENT: WHAT IS IT?

●FCAPS–Fault / Configuration / Accounting / Performance / Security

●SNMP; limitations of the SMI–Simple Network Management Protocol

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NETWORK MANAGMENT HISTORY

●Early proprietary platforms●Later proprietary offerings

●Early open-source tools●Later open-source & open-core offerings

●OpenNMS is unique

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WHAT OPENNMS IS

●World's First●Enterprise Grade●Network Management Platform●Developed as Open-Source Software

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GOALS OF OPENNMS

●To be the de-facto platform for network management. Full stop.

●Two Promises

●Horizon / Meridian

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FUNCTIONAL AREAS

●Provisioning : getting nodes, interfaces, services into and out of the system. Flexible, API-driven life-cycle management; push and pull modes of operation

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FUNCTIONAL AREAS

●Provisioning●Fault Management : multi-protocol service-assurance polling

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FUNCTIONAL AREAS

●Provisioning●Fault Management●Performance Management : multi-protocol metric data collection

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FUNCTIONAL AREAS

●Provisioning●Fault Management●Performance Management●Event Management : event-driven platform; intake from without, de-duplication, correlation with JBoss Drools Expert

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FUNCTIONAL AREAS

●Provisioning●Fault Management●Performance Management●Event Management●Topology : Pluggable providers. Link discovery via SNMP for LLDP, CDP, OSPF, IS-IS.

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FUNCTIONAL AREAS

●Provisioning●Fault Management●Performance Management●Event Management●Topology Discovery●Web UI and ReST API : Overhauled in 2015; Bootstrap, AngularJS, CXF

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THE ARCHITECTURE SLIDE

Web

PersistenceRRDTool Cassandra PostgreSQL

App

JVM (1.8)

Spring Framework Karaf

Spring MVC - JEE Servlets

Bootstrap JSP ReST

AngularJS

Vaadin

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ActiveMQ

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OpenNMS Minion

Service Daemons

Hibernate

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HISTORICAL ARCHITECTURE

●Sample data stored in RRD files●Operations fairly centralized●Platform runs in monolithic JVM(s)●Not really controller-aware

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ARCHITECTURAL DIRECTION

●NewTS*†●Minion*●Karaf†, Kafka, Spark Streaming●Increasingly abstract notion of controllers

†Here today *Developed in house

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ODL INTEGRATION PROTOTYPE

●Provisioning & Topology●Fault●Performance

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ODL TOPOLOGY (YANG UI)

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ODL TOPOLOGY (STUI)

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ODL FAULT MANAGEMENT

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ODL PERFORMANCE MGMT

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BELIEVE IN THE USERS

●Whom will this new world serve?

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ULF <3 USERS

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YOUR TURN

Q&A

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FIN

●Twitter: @jeffgdotorg●Freenode: jeffg / #opennms

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