An Alarms Service for Monitoring Multi-domain Grid Networks

Charaka Palansuriya; Jeremy Nowell; Florian Scharinger; Kostas Kavoussanakis; Arthur Trew

Networks for Grid Applications. Third International ICST Conference, GridNets 2009, Athens, Greece, September 8-9, 2009, Revised Selected Papers

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An Alarms Service for Monitoring Multi-domain Grid Networks

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-11733-6_8,
    author={Charaka Palansuriya and Jeremy Nowell and Florian Scharinger and Kostas Kavoussanakis and Arthur Trew},
    title={An Alarms Service for Monitoring Multi-domain Grid Networks},
    proceedings={Networks for Grid Applications. Third International ICST Conference, GridNets 2009, Athens, Greece, September 8-9, 2009, Revised Selected Papers},
    proceedings_a={GRIDNETS},
    year={2012},
    month={6},
    keywords={Alarms multi-domain networks Grid federated networks network monitoring Network Monitoring Working Group (NM-WG)},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-11733-6_8}
}

Charaka Palansuriya
Jeremy Nowell
Florian Scharinger
Kostas Kavoussanakis
Arthur Trew
Year: 2012
An Alarms Service for Monitoring Multi-domain Grid Networks
GRIDNETS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11733-6_8

Charaka Palansuriya¹^,*, Jeremy Nowell¹^,*, Florian Scharinger¹^,*, Kostas Kavoussanakis¹^,*, Arthur Trew¹^,*

1: The University of Edinburgh

*Contact email: charaka@epcc.ed.ac.uk, jeremy@epcc.ed.ac.uk, florian@epcc.ed.ac.uk, kavousan@epcc.ed.ac.uk, arthur@epcc.ed.ac.uk

Abstract

Effective monitoring of multi-domain Grid networks is essential to support large operational Grid infrastructures. Timely detection of network problems is an essential part of this monitoring. In order to detect the problems, access to network monitoring data that exists in multiple organisations is necessary. This paper presents an Alarms Service that supports monitoring of such multi-domain Grid networks. The service allows timely detection of networking problems based on pre-defined, user-configurable conditions. The requirements gathered from real users for monitoring the networks are discussed. The paper shows how multi-organisation data access is resolved with the use of a standards-based access mechanism. The architecture of the Alarms Service is discussed, providing the reasons behind the design decisions where appropriate. A description of the current implementation of the Alarms Service and its deployment is provided.

Keywords: Alarms multi-domain networks Grid federated networks network monitoring Network Monitoring Working Group (NM-WG)

Published: 2012-06-01

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11733-6_8