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WP5 - Network Resource Provision STATUS REPORT Gilberto Diaz (WP5 Manager) ULA (Venezuela) First-year Project Review Brussels, 15.09.2011. Outline. Objectives Achievements Plans for the 2 nd year Conclusions. GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011. 2.
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WP5 - Network Resource Provision STATUS REPORT Gilberto Diaz (WP5 Manager) ULA (Venezuela) First-year Project Review Brussels, 15.09.2011
Outline • Objectives • Achievements • Plans for the 2nd year • Conclusions GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011 2
WP5 Objectives • Build a Network Service Centre (NSC) • Overall network coordination • Network engineering and operation • Automation of the services of the NSC (portal for network status monitoring) • Management of the relationships between GISELA, CLARA, GÉANT and NRENs in Latin America and Europe GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011 3
Achievements (1/4) • Meetings • CLARATec - Meeting of the Technical Coordinators of the NRENs of the CLARA community: 23rd - 24th June 2011, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. • Outcome: GISELA / WP5 – GT-Mediciones agreement on monitoring system support • Virtual Meetings • 4 meetings GISELA – DANTE • Outcome: Specification of the Network monitoring system • 3 meetings GISELA – CLARA • Outcome: Adoption of CLARA's Ticket System GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011 4
Achievements (2/4) • Specification of the Network Support Centre • Ticket System: Through CLARA's Ticket System the following aspects are managed: • Reporting network problems • Submitting network provisioning requests • Following up all the tickets GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011 5
Achievements (3/4) • Deployment of a perfSONAR based multi domain network monitoring service (http://www.perfsonar.net/) • 3 Measurement Points on GISELA • The base for network monitoring • Colombia - UIS • Panama - UTP • Venezuela - ULA GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011 6
Achievements (4/4) A perfSONAR usage example (LA – EU network throughput measurement) GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011 7
Metrics fulfillment • The late starting of effective measurements at M07 had the following consequences GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011 8
Plans for the 2nd year • Effectively handle VRC network requests by means of the Ticket System • Incorporate the system administrators of the RCs into the Ticket System of CLARA • Continue the deployment of the monitoring environment on the GISELA infrastructure • Develop a web application to store/retrieve statistics of the network performance • Complete the operations manual for the monitoring platform • In collaboration with WP3, WP6 and the VRCs, work out the network requirements of their applications GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011 9
Conclusions • In spite of the slow start, WP5 has been able to perform its activities during the first project year • Significant steps taken towards the NSC establishment • Deployment of perfSONAR monitoring platform • Long term sustainability of perfSONAR guaranteed by an agreement with GT-Mediciones group GISELA - First year Project Review - Brussels - 15/09/2011 10