Back to the Future

Performance Management

in an Open Source World

“Back to the Future”

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“Back to the Future”

Then

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Now

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Performance Management

Then

RMF/SMF (raw data) Share tapes, CMG (utilities to

interpret RMF/SMF) Assembler, PL/1, and (*cough*)

COBOL SAS (database, analytics,

programming and graphing) MXG (performance data store and

rudimentary reporting) MICS (performance data store and

extensive management reporting/graphing)

Now

SNMP (raw data) Open source, free (as in speech)

software Perl, Java, XML PostgreSQL, MySQL MRTG, RRDTool NMS solutions ?

Various tools relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol An extensible agent and a notification receiver An SNMP library Tools to request or set information from SNMP agents Tools to generate and handle SNMP traps A slew of SNMP related perl modules A version of the unix 'netstat', and 'df' commands using

SNMP A Tk/Perl mib browser

The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a tool to monitor the traffic load on network links. MRTG generates HTML pages containing PNG images which provide a LIVE visual representation of this traffic.

RRD (Round Robin Database) is a system to store and display time-series data (i.e. network bandwidth, machine-room temperature, server load average)

What’s Missing

Integration Integration Integration

Typical NMS

An Open NMS OpenNMS is an open-source

project dedicated to the creation of an enterprise grade network management platform.

OpenNMS exploits other open source (and open standards) components Linux (various distributions) PostgreSQL (database

management system) Apache Tomcat (Java app server) XML

(document/content/formatting) Net-SNMP (data

collection/capture) RRD (data storage, graphing)

OpenNMS