The main objective [ NMaaS 101 ] series is to help you getting started with NMaaS service without any prior knowledge.
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Network Management as a Service (NMaaS) is a GÉANT service proposed to R&E institutions. It proposes the opportunity for any R&E organisation to subscribe and deploy Network Management tools in a cloud environment via an intuitive web portal. Most of GÉANT members have their own network management software suite. Some encompasses off the shelf tools, but others are using Open Source tools as per the last SIG-NOC tools report. But all the ~40 GÉANT community members are not equal in that perspective. Some have a fully integrated sophisticated network management system, usually sophistication implies also "home made" and some small NRENs have difficulties to maintain existing systems.
NMaaS target customer audience is:
Smaller NRENs may have limited resources to develop their own NMS
By using a shared and supported platform, NRENs can focus on the monitoring and management of their service components
NMaaS platform is ideally suited for Campus Network Management
NMaaS supports the needs of institutional users, either on an NREN managed NMaaS platform or the centralised GÉANT platform.
It can be a global research project like LSST, SKA, JIVE etc. In our case I'll expose you the particular case of RARE, which is a GN4-3 research project.
RARE (Router for Academia, Research & Education) is an ongoing effort under the GÉANT 3rd programme which focus on determining if a routing software platform solution can fit R&E use cases. The project aims to integrate different pieces of software related to these building blocks:
In order to validate the code produced by the RARE team we deployed a P4 Lab distributed aming various European countries:
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This article is meant to guide you and provide you the very first mandatory steps in order to create a NMaaS domain for your organization.
Let's take the example of the RARE domain, the objective is to:
In the end you should have access the NMaaS portal specifically dedicated to your organization. i.e. your organization NMaaS domain.
Your organization should be part of the eduGain R&E federated Identity provider.
Usually, this is CIO role, but at least you should have been granted the privileges to deploy applications on behalf of your institution. |
This mail should briefly present your organisation, eventually your project, mention the domain name (like RARE in my case) and have the endorsement of your local NREN. With these information the NMaaS team should be able to:
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Congratulations ! Your organisation has now a NMaaS domain and you are Domain manager for your organisation ! |
In this article you:
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