NetBeez - IEEE IRI 2016
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The document presents an overview of NetBeez, a company specializing in distributed network monitoring solutions founded by a team of experts in network engineering and computer science. It highlights the challenges faced by network administrators in identifying connectivity issues proactively and introduces NetBeez's monitoring solutions, including integrations and potential future developments. The document emphasizes the need for enhanced network visibility and performance testing in modern business environments.
![PERFORMANCE DATA
14
Test Data Usage
PING RTT, Packet Loss
Network and service availability, uptime,
and performance
DNS DNS Resolution Time DNS availability and performance
HTTP HTTP GET Time HTTP availability and performance
Traceroute Routing, RTT/Hop, Path-MTU Routing and network performance
Iperf Bandwidth, Packet Loss, Jitter
Network capacity and performance, QoS
validation
VoIP Mean Opinion Score VoIP call quality estimate
Speedtest Download and upload speed Internet bandwidth verification
Type Rule Usage
Up/Down IF x consecutive measurements are NULL Loss of connectivity, service down
Performance Baseline IF short_term_avg is y times long_term_avg Performance degradation issue
Performance Watermark IF short_term_avg is > z [%/ms/s] Service Level Agreement enforcement](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/netbeez-ieee-iripresentation-160730113508/85/NetBeez-IEEE-IRI-2016-14-320.jpg)
NetBeez - IEEE IRI 2016
- 1. Distributed network monitoring Stefano Gridelli Co-Founder/CEO IEEE IRI 2016
- 2. AGENDA 2 • NetBeez: Team and Company History • Distributed Network Monitoring: Problem and Solution • Introduction to NetBeez • Integrations Available in NetBeez • Future Integrations • Closing Remarks
- 3. NETBEEZ TEAM Stefano Gridelli, Co-Founder/CEO Senior Network Engineer Ms in Computer Science at the University of Milan and MBA from CMU Designed and implemented enterprise networks for mission-critical business and healthcare operations. Panickos Neophytou, Co-Founder/CTO PhD Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh Researcher at the Advanced Data Management lab of the University of Pittsburgh Developed a workflow execution model for a NSF funded project for monitoring astronomical objects and events. Panos Vouzis, Co-Founder PhD Computer Engineering (Lehigh University) Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University Holds two patents in automation control and developed parallel processing algorithms on FPGAs and GPUs for bioinformatics applications. 3
- 4. COMPANY HISTORY Jan 2013 Team accepted into the AlphaLab startup incubator May 2013 Received funding from Carnegie Mellon University Jul 2013 First beta installation at eiNetwork 2014 Private beta installations Feb 2015 Commercial launch at Networking Field Day 9 Jan 2016 NetBeez accepted into the Y Combinator accelerator INVESTORS 4
- 5. PROBLEM Network Admins can’t tell if users have connectivity. Users have to call the help-desk to report problems. Problems happen at remote sites where there are users. 5
- 6. CONNECTIVITY IS VITAL DIGITAL CONNECTEDANALOG 80’s 90’s DATA STORAGE DATA STORAGE DATA STORAGE ENABLER ENABLER TOOLS TOOLS TOOLS ENABLER 2000 6
- 7. Data Center (Monitoring server) Internet Connection Office User traffic Office Office Expensive Leased Line Internet Expensive leased lines are paired with a common Internet connection LEGACY WAN DESIGN 7
- 8. Data Center Internet Office Office Office Commodity Internet Connection Business-grade Internet lines are paired with multi-link or SD-WAN technologies VPN tunnel EMERGING WAN DESIGN 8
- 9. Remote Office NYC ? ? ? Remote Office LAX Remote Office ATL ✓ DATA CENTER (MONITORING SERVER) Detection and escalation of network and application issues are left to the users LIMITED NETWORK VISIBILITY 9
- 10. NETWORK SENSOR PLUG-AND-PLAY, SOFTWARE, AND WIRELESS 10
- 11. Data Center Branch Office Synthetic tests Internet VPN tunnel Continuous network connectivity and application performance testing ACTIVE MONITORING 11
- 12. Remote Office NYC Network Operation Center (IT headquarters) ✓ Remote Office LAX Remote Office ATL ✓ ✓ ✓ NetBeez sensors proactively detect network and application issues DISTRIBUTED MONITORING 12
- 13. OUTAGE DETECTION NO PROBLEMS IN PARIS DEGRADED WIRELESS IN PITTSBURGH USERS CAN’T GET TO SALESFORCE ! 13
- 14. PERFORMANCE DATA 14 Test Data Usage PING RTT, Packet Loss Network and service availability, uptime, and performance DNS DNS Resolution Time DNS availability and performance HTTP HTTP GET Time HTTP availability and performance Traceroute Routing, RTT/Hop, Path-MTU Routing and network performance Iperf Bandwidth, Packet Loss, Jitter Network capacity and performance, QoS validation VoIP Mean Opinion Score VoIP call quality estimate Speedtest Download and upload speed Internet bandwidth verification Type Rule Usage Up/Down IF x consecutive measurements are NULL Loss of connectivity, service down Performance Baseline IF short_term_avg is y times long_term_avg Performance degradation issue Performance Watermark IF short_term_avg is > z [%/ms/s] Service Level Agreement enforcement
- 15. INTEGRATIONS 15 System Usage Example Method Network Monitoring Tools Complementary tools based on SNMP IBM Tivoli, Solarwinds, … SNMP Traps Data Visualization Correlate alerts from multiple systems for root cause analysis Splunk, Grafana Syslog, RestfulAPI, Middleware Outage Escalation Systems Handle the escalation process of alerts to assure acknowledgement PagerDuty Restful API Collaboration Tools Allow teams to communicate and share documents in real-time Slack Webhooks, Slack Bot API Software-Defined Controllers Enable network devices to make intelligent routing decisions Cisco, Juniper, … Proprietary and Open API (OpenFlow)
- 16. SNMP TRAPS 16 Integration Benefits • Complement end-to-end and service status from NetBeez with device information from SNMP server HTTP GET web serverbeez NetBeez Server SNMP Server ctrl_channel snmp_get
- 17. SNMP TRAPS 17 Integration Benefits • Complement end-to-end and service status from NetBeez with device information from SNMP polls (SNMP GET) HTTP GET web serverbeez NetBeez Server SNMP Server ctrl_channel snmp_get
- 18. SNMP TRAPS 18 Integration Benefits • Complement end-to-end and service status from NetBeez with device information from SNMP server HTTP GET web serverbeez NetBeez Server SNMP Server ctrl_channel snmp_get
- 19. SNMP TRAPS 19 Integration Benefits • Complement end-to-end and service status from NetBeez with device information from SNMP server HTTP GET web serverbeez NetBeez Server SNMP Server ctrl_channel snmp_get
- 20. SNMP TRAPS 20 Integration Benefits • Complement end-to-end and service status from NetBeez with device information from SNMP server HTTP GET web serverbeez NetBeez Server SNMP Server ctrl_channel snmp_trap snmp_get
- 22. PAGER DUTY 22 Integration Benefits • Escalation policies based on priority levels, day of the week, time of the day, … • Other alerting methodologies like SMS, phone calls, … • Service grouping
- 23. PAGER DUTY 23
- 24. PAGER DUTY 24
- 26. SLACK BOT 26
- 29. SOFTWARE-DEFINED … 29 SDN Controller NetBeez Server beez A beez B RTT(beez A, beez B, path_1) = 20 ms
- 30. SOFTWARE-DEFINED … 30 SDN Controller NetBeez Server beez A beez B change_path
- 31. SOFTWARE-DEFINED … 31 SDN Controller NetBeez Server path_changed
- 32. SOFTWARE-DEFINED … 32 SDN Controller NetBeez Server RTT(beez A, beez B, path_2) = 15 ms
- 33. CLOSING REMARKS 33 Exciting time for networking Distributed network monitoring for distributed networks Integrations are key for distributed applications Presentation available at: http://www.slideshare.net/netbeez