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MPLS/VPN monitoring

  • From: Paolo Pecchi <ppecchi@epoch.net>
  • Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 14:42:29 -0700
  • Organization: Epoch Internet
  • Resent-Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 18:55:59 -0400
  • To: mpls-ops@mplsrc.com

Hi everybody,

does somebody out there know of a tool
to integrate eventually with Openview-NNM, or independent from it, 
to monitor MPLS/VPNs ?

Many tools or suggestions I read about it, are related to inject the Monitoring
Network
ip address inside the VPNs, and 'bla bla', to be able to 'ping' the CPE
sites.

I don't think this can be considered as 'VPN monitoring'.

In fact that technique lets the Monitoring Station monitor 
the reachability of the sites from the Monitoring Station, but there is no
 garantie that those sites are able to reach the other ones 
(if the MPLS/VPN is a full mesh VPN). 
 To accomplish that, I think the monitoring station
 needs to monitor the Label Switch Paths (LSPs) for each VPNs.

The entity to monitor is 'reachabilty among sites', that is defined in
the routers with LSPs, so the Monitoring Tool needs to be MPLS/VPN aware,and
be able 'to trace' the LSPs for the single VPNs.

Does somebody have knowledge of such tool? some ideas how to accomplish it? 

Thank you in advance for your answers

Paolo

-- 
Paolo Pecchi
Backbone Engineering
Sr. Network Engineer
HP-Openview NNM Certified Consultant
Epoch Internet

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