Below is a table representing what kind of software (applications) that are used in different organisations to help maintain and realize certain functions.
Function \ Organisation |
SUNET |
NORDUnet |
RHnet |
FSKnet |
UNINETT |
Funet |
BELNET |
WASK |
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Date updated |
|
|
June 28 2011 |
|
|
Feb 3, 2010 |
|
Mar 4, 2010 |
Console access |
|
|
local only |
|
dialup modems |
dialup modems + Sentry commander, separate LAN (via DWDM) |
|
local consoles on network devices, ILOMs on servers |
Documentation |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
text files |
CMS |
Sitevision |
- |
None |
|
Homemade DB (KIND) |
Plone (public web), wiki, mostly manual HTML |
StayInFront Custom |
- |
Host inventory |
Editgrid |
Editgrid |
None |
|
Homemade DB (KIND) |
(Homemade DB/scripts) |
|
text files / OpenNMS |
Network configuration Management |
|
|
scripts |
|
|
(homemade scripts) |
|
complete configuration files stored on FTP/TFTP server, every 24h archiving |
Network inventory |
Telemator |
Homemade DB & Editgrid |
NetDisco |
Homemade |
Homemade DB (KIND) |
(Homemade) |
Immo3000 |
OpenNMS |
Web publishing |
Sitevision |
Confluence |
manual |
|
Homemade CVS replication |
Plone (public web), Twiki/manual HTML (extranet) |
|
- |
Wiki |
- |
|
|
Dokuwiki |
Twiki |
MediaWiki |
- |
|
Incident management |
Jira |
Jira |
RT |
OTRS |
RT |
RT |
StayInFront Custom / RT |
e-mail |
Knowledge management |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Incidents |
Jira |
Jira |
RT |
|
RT |
RTIR |
Cares |
e-mail |
Measurements |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Network traffic |
Zino |
Zino |
MRTG/RRD |
MRTG/RRD |
Zino |
MRTG |
OpenNMS |
|
SLA |
Jira/Editgrid |
Jira/Editgrid |
SmokePing |
|
|
(Homemade) |
outsourced |
OpenNMS |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
outsourced / Nagios |
OpenNMS |
|
Alarm dispatching |
scripts/smsgateway |
scripts/smsgateway |
scripts/autostatus |
|
Nagios |
|
e-mail, SMTP/SMS-gateway 3rd party provider |
|
Environment monitoring |
- |
iCamView |
Homemade/RRD |
|
weathergoose + hobbit/munin |
(homemade/RRD, minimally implemented) |
|
OpenNMS for visualization, UPS connected probes |
Log monitoring |
Syslog |
Syslog |
homemade syslog processing |
|
Syslog |
Syslog (+homemade scripts for filtering) |
|
Syslog/Splunk for collecting and searching |
Routers and switches (traffic levels) |
Zino |
Zino |
MRTG/RRD |
Homemade |
Zino |
Zino |
outsourced / Nagios |
OpenNMS |
Routing policy |
Scripts |
Scripts |
|
|
Scripts (expect) |
(homemade) |
- |
Scripts |
Servers |
Nagios |
Nagios |
None |
|
Hobbit |
Nagios |
Nagios |
OpenNMS |
Transport Network |
Vendor proprietary |
Vendor proprietary |
None |
|
|
Vendor proprietary (+ integration to Nagios) |
|
- |
Network address provisioning |
|
|
Manual |
|
|
NameSurfer |
|
Text files |
NOC Office arrangements |
|
|
N/A |
|
3 wallmounted displays, customized web app, googleearth map |
not used |
|
- |
Reporting |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
OpenNMS |
KPI |
Confluence |
Confluence |
|
|
|
- |
|
- |
SLA |
Jira/Editgrid |
Jira/Editgrid |
no SLAs |
|
|
(homemade, for measurement only; no SLA agreements w/ customers) |
|
OpenNMS |
Video conferencing |
Adobe Connect Pro |
Polycom/Scopia |
Polycom |
|
|
Videra (Polycom/Tandberg) |
Polycom |
- |
Network topology visualization |
|
|
Homemade weather map |
|
zino topological maps |
DWDM: vendor proprietary |
|
OpenNMS |
Look through the table to see if there is a function group (functino groups are written in bold) that the function fits into. Then see the explanation about adding a new organisation above and instead of adding a column in step 3 you add a row below the appropriate function group. If there is no function group that fits, create a new one.
What is interesting to document about each function that is listed in the above function mapping table. The below list of topics could be viewed as a table of content when starting to document a function.
Feel free to add more things in the list!
Below is a autogenerated list of all pages in the NORDUnet Operational Forum space with the label "function".
build-in function