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Cisco adds sFlow support to Nexus 9K series
Cisco adds support for the sFlow standard in the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series 7.0(3)I2(1) NX-OS Release. Combined with the Nexus 3000/3100 series, which have included sFlow support since NX-OS 5.0(3)U4(1),...
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Open Virtual Network (OVN)
Open Virtual Network (OVN) is an open source network virtualization solution built as part of the Open vSwitch (OVS) project. OVN provides layer 2/3 virtual networking and firewall services for...
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Real-time analytics and control applications
sFlow-RT 2.0 released - adds application support describes a new application framework for sharing solutions built on top of the real-time analytics platform. Application examples are provided on the...
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Fabric View
The Fabric View application has been released on Github, https://github.com/sflow-rt/fabric-view. Fabric View provides real-time visibility into the performance of leaf and spine ECMP fabrics.A leaf...
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Active Route Manager
SDN Active Route Manager has been released on GitHub, https://github.com/sflow-rt/active-routes. The software is based on the article White box Internet router PoC. Active Route Manager peers with a...
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sFlow Test
sFlow Test has been released on GitHub, https://github.com/sflow-rt/sflow-test. The suite of checks is intended to validate the implementation of sFlow on a data center switch. In particular, the tests...
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SC15 live real-time weathermap
Connect to http://inmon.sc15.org/sflow-rt/app/sc15-weather/html/ between now and November 19th to see a real-time heat map of the The International Conference for High Performance Computing,...
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Network virtualization visibility demo
New OVS instrumentation features aimed at real-time monitoring of virtual networks, Open vSwitch 2015 Fall Conference, included a demonstration of real-time visibility into the logical network overlays...
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Open vSwitch is an open source software virtual switch that is popular in cloud environments such as OpenStack. Open vSwitch is a standard Linux component that forms the basis of a number of commercial...
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OVN service injection demonstration
Enabling extensibility in OVN, by Gal Sagie, Huawei and Liran Schour, IBM, Open vSwitch 2015 Fall Conference describes a method for composing actions from an external application with actions installed...
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DDoS Blackhole
DDoS Blackhole has been released on GitHub, https://github.com/sflow-rt/ddos-blackhole. The application detects Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) flood attacks in real-time and can automatically...
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Broadcom BroadView Instrumentation
The diagram above, from the BroadView™ 2.0 Instrumentation Ecosystem presentation, illustrates how instrumentation built into the network Data Plane (the Broadcom Trident/Tomahawk ASICs used in most...
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Using a proxy to feed metrics into Ganglia
The GitHub gmond-proxy project demonstrates how a simple proxy can be used to map metrics retrieved through a REST API into Ganglia's gmond TCP protocol.The diagram shows the elements of the Ganglia...
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Custom metrics with Cumulus Linux
Cumulus Networks, sFlow and data center automation describes how Cumulus Linux is monitored using the open source Host sFlow agent that supports Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, Solaris, and AIX operating...
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Custom events
Measuring Page Load Speed with Navigation Timing describes the standard instrumentation built into web browsers. This article will use navigation timing as an example to demonstrate how custom sFlow...
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Environmental metrics with Cumulus Linux
Custom metrics with Cumulus Linux describes how to extend the set of metrics exported by the sFlow agent and used the export of BGP metrics as an example. This article demonstrates how environmental...
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Demystifying NFV Infrastructure Hotspots
Slides from the recent Dell NFV Summit 2015 are now available. Steve Wright's 7 Fallacies of NFV talk describes the importance of managing network resources in an NFV stack. The diagram above shows the...
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Podcast with Nick Buraglio and Brent Salisbury
"Have you seen sFlow options in your router configuration or flow collector? Are you looking for alternatives to SNMP or NetFlow? Have you been curious about the instrumentation of your new white box...
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Dell OS10 SDN router demo
In this video from Dell's Network Field Day 11 (#NFD11) presentation, Madhu Santhanam demonstrates an interesting use case for the new OS10 switch operating system that was introduced at the event.The...
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SignalFx
SignalFx is an example of a cloud based analytics service. SignalFx provides a REST API for uploading metrics and a web portal that it simple to combine and trend data and build and share...
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