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Anatomy of an International Exchange Point: Distributed Network Monitoring Using MonALISA and NetFlow

Overview This paper presents a distributed network monitoring system, which exploits MonALISA (Monitoring Agents in A Large Integrated Services Architecture), a distributed web service delivery infrastructure designed to collect and process the network monitoring information. The paper augments the capability of MonALISA with FlowTools, the popular NetFlow data analysis toolset. The paper demonstrates how to integrate MonALISA and Flowtools via an UDP-listening agent ApMon, and highlight a case study of AMPATH, an international exchanging point located in Miami and serving a number of South American National Research and Education Networks (NRENs). The experience showcases the elegant design philosophy of a scalable distributed service deployment platform coupled with the open-source traffic analysis tools and its impact on the daily operation of the production networks.

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PublisherFlorida International University File FormatPDF
Date PublishedFebruary 2007
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