GÉANT Infoshare: Tools for Campus Network Management as a Service (CNaaS)

Name: GÉANT Infoshare: Tools for Campus Network Management as a Service (CNaaS)
Start: 2021-04-28T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2021-04-28T15:25:00+02:00
Location: Online

Starts 28 Apr 2021, 13:00

Ends 28 Apr 2021, 15:25

(Timezone - Europe/Madrid)

Online

Mariaisabel Gandia Carriedo

Description

In the CNaaS Infoshare in 2020 (https://events.geant.org/e/cnaas/), we saw how several European NRENs have started offering Campus Network Management as a Service (CNaaS) to their connected institutions.

This Infoshare will include presentations of tools that some NRENs are using to offer the service, for monitoring, configuration management, etc.

This Infoshare was held on April 28th, 2021 at 13:00 CET and was be recorded. You can find the recording in the GÉANT channel: https://youtu.be/cRWO6S40E9k

Registration

Participants

Andrea Avi
Eduardo Jacob
Jure Knez
Lidija Jakovcic
Marco Nesler
Robert Tadevosyan
Silvia Salgado
Sven de Ridder
Vito Tomažin
Vojdan Kjorveziroski
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- 13:00 → 13:05
  
  Introduction to Campus Network Management as a Service 5m
  
  Introduction to the Infoshare
  
  Speaker: Mariaisabel Gandia Carriedo
  
  0428 CNaaS_Tools_ Infosharev2.pdf
- 13:05 → 13:25
  
  NMaaS: Network Monitoring as a Service 20m
  
  NMaaS is a service developed and maintained by the GÉANT Project. NMaaS is offered to all members of the GÉANT community including NRENs, end Institutions, research projects and individuals with the indent to ease local network monitoring and management by moving the NMS installation to a secure NMaaS cloud.
  This session will cover a brief introduction to selected aspects of the Network Management as a Service and a live demonstration of NMaaS Portal.
  
  Speaker: Lukasz Lopatowski (PSNC)
  
  GN4-3_PSNC_CNaaSTools_Infoshare_NMaaS_Lukasz_Lopatowski.pdf
- 13:25 → 13:45
  
  NMS: Network Automation for Campus Networks 20m
  
  Presentation of the network automation software for campus networks developed at SUNET called CNaaS-NMS. The NMS is open source, has multi- vendor support and includes features for doing zero-touch provisioning, configuration management and firmware upgrades. Background, current status and deployment at customers.
  
  Speakers: Mr David Heed (SUNET), Mr Johan Marcusson (SUNET)
  
  SUNET_CNaaSTools_Infoshare_CNaaS_David_Heed.pdf
- 13:45 → 14:05
  
  NMS: Technical Demo of Network Automation 20m
  
  Technical demo of CNaaS-NMS presenting workflows and how to perform common actions using configuration files, web user interface and API.
  
  Speaker: Mr Johan Marcusson (SUNET)
  
  SUNET_CNaaSTools_Infoshare_NMS_Johan_Marcusson.pdf
- 14:05 → 14:15
  
  Break 10m
- 14:15 → 14:35
  
  Argus Aggregated Alerting System for Campus Network Management as a Service in UNINETT 20m
  
  By deploying Campus Networks as a Service, the existing plethora of network and service monitoring tools multiplies with every new customer. For this purpose, Uninett built Argus: A tool for consolidating incidents across network management systems, and for managing NOC notification profiles in a single interface. This talk presents our progress with Argus thus far, and some of the issues we've run across on the way.
  
  Speaker: Morten Brekkevold (Uninett)
  
  UNINETT_CNaaSTools_Infoshare_Argus_Morten_Brekkevold.pdf
- 14:35 → 14:55
  
  Wifimon 20m
  
  Wifimon (Wifi Monitor) is a helpful solution to monitor the wifi network, suitable to be used for Campus Network Management services
  
  Speaker: Nikolaos Kostopoulos
  
  GN4-3_NTUA_GRNET_CNaaSTools_Infoshare_Wifimon_Nikos_Kostopoulos.pdf
- 14:55 → 15:15
  
  Q&A and Debate 20m
  
  Questions and answers and discussion around the table about CNaaS tools
  
  Speakers: Mr David Heed (SUNET), Lukasz Lopatowski (PSNC), Mariaisabel Gandia Carriedo, Morten Brekkevold (Uninett)