In the previous two posts we discussed gathering metrics for long term trend analysis and then combining it with event-based alerts for actionable results. In order to combine these two elements, we need strong network monitoring tooling that allows us to overlay these activities into an effective solution.
The legacy approach to monitoring is to deploy a monitoring server that periodically polls your network devices via Simple Network Management Protocol. SNMP is a very old protocol, originally developed in 1988. While some things do get better with age, computer protocols are rarely one of them. SNMP has been showing its age in many ways.
Inflexibility
SNMP uses data structures called MIBs to exchange information. These MIBs are often proprietary, and difficult to modify and extend to cover new and interesting metrics.
Polling vs event driven
Polling doesn’t offer enough granularity to catch all events. For instance, even if you check disk utilization once every five minutes, you may go over threshold and back in between intervals and never know.
An inefficient protocol
SNMP’s polling design is a “call and response” protocol, this means the monitoring server will Continue reading
Analytics is an essential element of the transformation to SDN.
The Docker Certification Program provides a way for technology partners to validate and certify their software or plugin as a container for use on the Docker Enterprise Edition platform. Since the initial launch of the program in March, more Containers and Plugins have been certified and available for download.
Certified Containers and Plugins are technologies that are built with best practices as Docker containers, tested and validated against the Docker Enterprise Edition platform and APIs, pass security requirements, reviewed by Docker partner engineering and cooperatively supported by both Docker and the partner. Docker Enterprise Edition and Certified Technology provide assurance and support to businesses for their critical application infrastructure.
Check out the latest Docker Certified technologies to the Docker Store:
Its meant to be funny but its not.
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With machine learning, big data, cloud, and NFV initiatives invading the data center, there are implications for data center networking performance.
Reimagining the edge While the importance of the cloud is obvious to anyone, the increasing importance of the edge is often overlooked. As digitization and the Internet of Things are leading to an exponential growth in the number of devices, the amount of data that is being generated by sensors in devices such as self-driving-cars, mobile endpoints... Read more →
MPLS won’t be a factor in Comcast’s SD-WAN play.
ADVA is talking to other telcos about using its Ensemble's NFV tech in their white box uCPEs.
For a mature company that kickstarted supercomputing as we know it, Cray has done a rather impressive job of reinventing itself over the years.
From its original vector machines, to HPC clusters with proprietary interconnects and custom software stacks, to graph analytics appliances engineered in-house, and now to machine learning, the company tends not to let trends in computing slip by without a new machine.
However, all of this engineering and tuning comes at a cost—something that, arguably, has kept Cray at bay when it comes to reaching the new markets that sprung up in the “big data” days of …
Cray Supercomputing as a Service Becomes a Reality was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Well, it looks like another major item will get struck from my bucket list this year. I’ve been accepted to present at Cisco Live in Las Vegas this summer!
This session is designed to walk through an enterprise network and look at how EIGRP can be engineered with purpose to best suit the needs of the different areas of the network. I will focus a lot on stability and scaling EIGRP and will show the audience how, where, and when to leverage common EIGRP features such as summarization, fast timers, BFD, and wide metrics. Before getting into the nuts and bolts, I will be doing a bit of a level-set on certain EIGRP features such as queries, going active, summarization, and support for flexible network hierarchies. I will round out the session by talking about how EIGRP has been optimized for use in Cisco’s Intelligent WAN (IWAN) solution and even touch on a not-so-commonly seen application of EIGRP: EIGRP Over-The-Top. The full session agenda looks like this:
I’m actually inheriting this session from a fellow CPOC engineer, Steve Moore who, un-coincidentally, is the same S. Moore whose name is on the EIGRP RFC. Steve will be presenting a sister session Continue reading