OUCE-2013 Let yourself go with the Flow?
Channel: OpenNMS
Date: 25/03/2013

Sebastian Rieger on the OpenNMS User Conference Europe 2013

Let yourself go with the Flow? New aspects for open monitoring in SDNs

Software Defined Networks seem to offer promising ideas to shape the future of networks in data centers and virtualization environments. Some of the ideas even spread SDNs across campuses and wide area networks. The inherent concept of moving the intelligence of the data plane in the control plane might also change the way we will monitor networks in the near future. To leverage the benefits of this transition, existing concepts in open network management and monitoring could be extended or even integrated with SDNs. Or should we simply go with the OpenFlow and implement the monitoring logic, as done with the management logic from the data plane, in the new virtualized control planes? If so, which existing techniques could be interesting to port in such an open software defined network monitoring? Or is OpenFlow just the regular constant state of flux and will not live up to its promises?
The talk will present which benefits the open structure of SDN could have on distributed network management and monitoring. Also some potential for the combination with integrated management solutions will be shown. Furthermore a critical view on the new paradigms like software defined monitoring (Wait a minute, hasnt it already been software all the time?) is taken. Potential ideas to integrate extensions for SDN management and monitoring into OpenNMS are pointed out.