PERT Staff NREN and GÉANT staff can access a range of tools for checking the status of the GÉANT network by logging into https://tools.geant.net/portal/ (if a member of the PERT does not have an account for this site they should contact DANTE operations operations@dante.org.uk).
The following tools are available:
on the GEANT Tools Portal. Some tools are available without logging in and hence are available to the general public:
- GÉANT Cacti - historical traffic and other graphs
- GÉANT Looking Glass Allows users to execute basic operational commands such as 'ping', 'traceroute' and 'show route' on the GÉANT backbone routers.
- GÉANT GÉANT Usage Map: For each country currently connected to GÉANT, this map shows the level of usage of the access link connecting the country's national research network to GÉANT.
After logging in, one can see a wider range of graphs in Cacti and access to other tools such as the following:
- Backbone Network Weathermap: Map showing the GÉANT routers and the circuits interconnecting them. The circuits are coloured according to their utilisation. LOGIN REQUIRED
- GÉANT Looking Glass: this allows Multi-Router Looking Glass: Allows users to execute basic operational commands on GÉANT routers, including ping, traceroute and
show route - IPv4 and IPv6 Beacon: Beacon nodes are located in the majority of GÉANT PoPs. They send and receive a specific mulitcast group, and from this are able to infer the performance of all multicast traffic throughout GÉANT.
- HADES Measurement Points: These network performance Measurement Points (MPs) run DFN's HADES IPPM software (OWD, OWDV, packet loss) and also iperf/BWCTL. PERT engineers can log in to the devices and run AB tests (they should use common sense so as not to overload low capacity or already heavily loaded paths).
- BWCTL Measurement Points: NRENs can run BWCTL/iperf tests to, from and between GEANT2's BWCTL servers. See GeantToolsDanteBwctl for more information.
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- the same commandon multiple GÉANT routers.