Speaker
Mr
Tarus Balog
(The OpenNMS Project)
Description
OpenNMS is powerful and scalable network monitoring platform that is completely open source. While designed from the start to be highly scalable, recent work has added new features to extend that scalability to new levels. This presentation will present three of them:
1. **Newts**: [Newts][1] is a new time-series database built on top of Apache Cassandra. It adds new levels of performance data storage capable of storing hundreds of thousands of data points per second, in both a redundant and geographically separated fashion.
2. **OpenNMS Minion**: The [Minion][2] is a lightweight application that can run on commodity hardware to perform distributed monitoring. This can greatly extend the monitoring capability of OpenNMS and addresses a number of issues such as duplicate network address space and a need for redundancy.
3. **OpenNMS Drift**: [Drift][3] allows for the collection of "flow" data including protocols such as Netflow, IPFIX, JFlow and sFlow. The information is stored in Elasticsearch and is displayed in Grafana. Over 100,000 flows per second are currently being collected in production systems with twice that easily possible with the right hardware.
As the number of network elements an organization has to monitor grows, both to provide a high level of service or to address regulatory requirements, OpenNMS has grown to meet those needs. Its open source nature makes it both a flexible and cost effective solution.
[1]: http://docs.opennms.org/opennms/releases/22.0.0/guide-admin/guide-admin.html#ga-opennms-operation-newts%20Newts
[2]: http://docs.opennms.org/opennms/releases/22.0.0/guide-admin/guide-admin.html#ga-minion "Minion"
[3]: http://docs.opennms.org/opennms/releases/22.0.0/guide-admin/guide-admin.html#ga-telemetryd "Drift"
Summary
OpenNMS is an open source monitoring platform focused on scale. This presentation will discuss three new features that address monitoring at scale, including performance data collection, distributed monitoring and the collection of flow data.
| Talk Duration | 30 minutes |
|---|---|
| May we live webcast the talk?<br />(recordings will be available publicly online) | Yes |
| May we publish the slides on our website? | Yes |
| Your consent for us to publish your name and<br />affiliation as a Speaker on the UKNOF41 website | Yes |
Primary author
Mr
Tarus Balog
(The OpenNMS Project)
