Active Monitoring Integration to SmartX Multi-View for restricted Topology-awareness in OF@TEIN Playground
Leveraging integrated design for multi layer visibility workflow, denoted as ‘SmartX Multi-View Visibility Framework’ [2], comprising visibility and visualization tools, there was a need to better understand network topology of OF@TEIN Playground. In this paper, research is focused on utilizing the active monitoring data collected from individual playground sites, to achieve partial topology awareness, with emphasis on knowledge of network resource capacity and visualization. The partial topology awareness is achieved through scalable integration with Multi-View for collection of data useful for visibility and centralized graphical visualization of network status.
Active monitoring measures the flow of data on the network by inserting test traffic into the network. One of the key benefit of active monitoring is ability to collect smaller amounts of data specific to the problem at hand rather than collecting everything available at the network.
Passive monitoring constantly collect data from the network over a certain period of time and bases results on the long-term measurements data.
This functionality is required to improve previous work, called as “access center”, due to lack of developer’s ready applications for accessibility (such as secure client, Java packages), software version compatibility (such as browser and Java package version) and required configuration in user’s desktop (registry config for windows and user-customized parameters).