14–18 Oct 2013
Amsterdam, Beurs van Berlage
Europe/Amsterdam timezone

Deployment of a WLCG network monitoring infrastructure based on the perfSONAR-PS technology

15 Oct 2013, 16:05
20m
Veilingzaal (Amsterdam, Beurs van Berlage)

Veilingzaal

Amsterdam, Beurs van Berlage

Oral presentation to parallel session Facilities, Production Infrastructures, Networking and Collaborative Tools Facilities, Infrastructures, Networking and Collaborative Tools

Speakers

Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US)) Simone Campana (CERN)

Description

The WLCG infrastructure moved from a very rigid network topology, based on the MONARC model, to a more relaxed system, where data movement between regions or countries does not necessarily need to involve T1 centers. While this evolution brought obvious advantages, especially in terms of flexibility for the LHC experiment’s data management systems, it also opened the question of how to monitor the increasing number of possible network paths, in order to provide a global reliable network service. The perfSONAR network monitoring system has been evaluated and agreed as a proper solution to cover the WLCG network monitoring use cases: it allows WLCG to plan and execute latency and bandwidth tests between any instrumented endpoint through a central scheduling configuration, it allows archiving of the metrics in a local database, it provides a programmatic and a web based interface exposing the tests results; it also provides a graphical interface for remote management operations. In this contribution we will present our activity to deploy a perfSONAR based network monitoring infrastructure, in the scope of the WLCG Operations Coordination initiative: we will motivate the main choices we agreed in terms of configuration and management, describe the additional tools we developed to complement the standard packages and present the status of the deployment, together with the possible future evolution.

Primary authors

Aaron Brown Alessandra Forti (University of Manchester (GB)) Alvaro Fernandez Casani (Universidad de Valencia (ES)) Mr Anthony Hesnaux (CERN) Dr Daniele Bonacorsi (University of Bologna) Donato De Girolamo (INFN) Duncan Rand (Imperial College) Fernando Lopez Munoz (PIC) Ian Gable (University of Victoria (CA)) Jason Zurawski (Internet2) Jose Flix Molina (Centro de Investigaciones Energ. Medioambientales y Tecn. - (ES) Kashif Mohammad (Aligarh Muslim University (IN)) Dr Marek Zielinski (University of Rochester (US)) Dr Mario Reale (GARR) Nicolo Magini (CERN) Oliver Gutsche (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Shawn Mc Kee (University of Michigan (US)) Si Liu (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Simone Campana (CERN) Dr Stefan Roiser (CERN) Dr Vincenzo Capone (Universita e INFN (IT))

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