General information
perfSONAR is an open-source, modular and flexible architecture for active network performance monitoring that provides a view of network performance across multiple domains, allowing NOC and PERT engineers to seamlessly analyse and diagnose network behaviours across the entire end-to-end path. The tools provided in the perfSONAR suite perform active measurements of throughput, packet loss, delays and jitter, and record network route and path changes.
To promote the perfSONAR software and empower small organisations and teams in its usage, the GÉANT project is providing through the NMaaS platform all the perfSONAR central components. That means that you only need to deploy public perfSONAR measurement points (MP) on your network and you can run all the central components to manage, collect and visualise your network performance measurement data on the GÉANT provided central components.
Current state
Active
Maintenance
GN5-1 WP6 Task 3 team
Access
Through regular NMaaS access, prior registration might be needed for users not already having an account.
Support
- WP6T3 perfSONAR team can be reached at perfsonar@lists.geant.org
- NMaaS Support
Services
perfSONAR central components:
- Archive: Esmond
- Dashboard: MaDDash
- Configuration: pSConfig Web Admin (PWA)
- perfSONAR Central Management which is the 3 above services together.
Resources
- NMaaS sandbox
- perfSONAR documentation:
Data
To be useful, you'll need to provide access to your own perfSONAR nodes and configure them to post their measurement results data to the central components provided by NMaaS. Configuration of measurements and archiving can be done through the PWA provided on NMaaS.