GroundWork, Inc.,
the leading Unified Monitoring solution for IT operations management and
cloud monitoring, today released GroundWork Net Hub. The new GroundWork
Net Hub offers discovery and monitoring for dynamic software defined
networks (SDNs).
“Traditional network monitoring methods struggle to work and map well to
the dynamic and fluid nature of private clouds and SDNs,” said David
Dennis, VP of Business Development and Marketing for GroundWork. “We
understand that, and wanted to provide the same API-based monitoring
capabilities of SDNs that users expect from monitoring private cloud
compute resources.”
GroundWork Net Hub is built off of GroundWork’s popular Cloud Hub code
base. And similar to Cloud Hub, GroundWork Net Hub only needs to be
configured once. From that point, Net Hub remains in communication with
the SDN controller to understand: (1) the configuration of the network,
(2) when elements have been added or removed and (3) know their
performance characteristics.
Benefits of GroundWork Net Hub:
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Monitor OpenDaylight / OpenFlow-based SDN controllers
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Native API-based monitoring
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Continuous network discovery of new elements
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Ability to gather topology, port statistics, flow statistics, packet
and byte counts
“Software Defined Networking is one of the most talked-about networking
technologies these days,” said Remo Rickli, creator of popular open
source monitoring tool NeDi and networking consultant. “With the new
protocols used by Software Defined Networking, many network monitoring
and management systems will need to be updated to remain fully current
and capable.”
Availability: The first version of GroundWork Net Hub will
include feeders for Open SDN (Open Daylight/Open Flow), with feeders for
Cisco ACI and VMware NSX to follow.