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Abilene Observatory
Chris Robb
Indiana University
APAN Engineering Workshop 2004
Slides prepared by Chris Small, IU
Global NOC Software Engineer
Abilene Observatory
The Abilene Observatory is a program to support the
collection and dissemination of network data
associated with the Abilene Network . It provides
Network Engineers with an operational view of
the network and also provides researchers a
platform to conduct experiments and collect data
from a High-Performance network
Abilene Observatory
Internet2 Page:
http://abilene.internet2.edu/observatory
 Overview of the project
 Proposal Process
 Data Views
Components
The Observatory consists of two components:
 Data Collected by equipment run by the
Abilene NOC (Network Management Machines)
 Data collected by separate research on colocated equipment at the Abilene Router Nodes
How to get involved
 Retrieve Existing Data
 Deploy a Co-Located project
 Make a suggestion
Retrieve Existing Data
There is a large existing amount of data collected
under the Abilene Observatory program. Some
of it is available publicly through some of the
links listed in this presentation. However there
is some data due to its size or format, such as
a stream of NetFlow data, that can only be
available upon request. To gain access to this
data please contact [email protected]
Current Data and Tools
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Netflow
Owamp (One-Way Latency)
Iperf
Traceroute
SNMP Interface Statistics
Internet2 Detective
Multicast Beacon
NTP Stratum 2 Server
Ping/Traceroute V6 Destination
Deploy a Co-Located Project
The Abilene Observatory has reserved space for
researchers to deploy equipment in the Abilene
Observatory Rack.
The first step in deploying a co-location project is
to submit a proposal to [email protected]
Co-Location Proposal
There is some information that we be needed for
all Co-location projects. The information
includes:
 Description of the Project including participants
and duration
 Space, Network Power Requirements
 System Information
 Security
Co-Located Machines
Participation is open to all members (university,
corporate, or affiliates) of the Internet2 project
and is based on competitive proposals
Proposal information at:
http://abilene.internet2.edu/observatory/proposalprocess.html
Co-Location Caveats
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Commodity Routes not available
48V DC Power
23” Racks
Address Space
Security
“Lights Out” Remote Operation
Co-Location Example
PlanetLab
PlanetLab is a global overlay network for
developing and accessing new network
services. Designed for short-term experiments
and long-term services.
Currently deployed in All Abilene nodes with two
machines in each node.
Make a suggestion
We are open to suggestions.
Feel free to suggest some tool or
application to run to collect data.
Observatory Rack
In each Abilene Router Node there is a one rack
dedicated to the Observatory project.
The rack is dedicated for:
 Abilene NOC Administrated Network Management
Machines (NMS)
 Co-located Machines
 DC Power Controllers for Observatory machines
No Routing equipment is in the Observatory Rack
Observatory Rack (cont)
Each Observatory Rack contains at least:
 4 NMS Machines
 One 8 Port DC Power Controler
Some Racks contain additional Co-Located
machines
Rack Front View
Rack Rear View
NMS Machines
NMS Machine Specs
 2x 1.26 Ghz Xeons
 FreeBSD (Linux as option)
 1 GB Memory
 2x18GB SCSI Disks
 GigE Fiber (NMS1 and 2) or FastE connected
 DC Powered
Advanced Services
Since the NMS Machines are directly on the
Abilene Backbone there are many advantages
to test “Advanced” Services
 Native V6
 Native V4 and V6 Multicast
 1Gb ports (NMS1) directly connected to the
backbone
 9000 MTU (NMS1)
Observatory Layout
NMS Infrastructure
NMS Infrastructure Page:
http://loadrunner.uits.iu.edu/~neteng/nms
 Links to currently running services on each
machine
 Alerts related to NMS machines
 System Performance statistics
 Maps and Diagrams
Monitoring
The state of the NMS machines are closely
monitored.
Nagios/AlertMon monitor and display alerts if any
machine or service is down
Ganglia Cluster Toolkit is used for system
(load,mem,disk usage, etc..) monitoring
Data and Tools In-Depth
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Netflow
Owamp (One-Way Latency)
Iperf
SNMP Interface Statistics
Internet2 Detective
Multicast Beacon
NTP Stratum 2 Server
Ping/Traceroute V6 Destination
NetFlow
Sampled (100:1) Netflow is sent from all Abilene
Routers to one of the local NMS machines. The
flows are sent to researchers and also cashed
locally and retrieved to a central storage using
rsync.
The Netflow records are anatomized by masking
the low-order 11 bits of the IP address.
Unanatomized data is not stored.
Netflow Reports
There are two widely available reports generated
from the raw data
 The Internet2 Weekly Netflow Report:
http://netflow.internet2.edu/weekly
 The Nightly reports at ITEC-Ohio:
http://www.itec.oar.net/abilene-netflow
Netflow Data
Netflow Data is available ether as a direct feed from
the NMS Machines or as a download from the
centralized storage area at the Ohio ITEC
Please contact [email protected] to obtain
more information if you want access to the raw
data
NetFlow Users
Some of the users of Netflow data
 WAIL: The Wisconsin Advanced Internet
Laboratory
 Network Research Lab at Case Western
Reserve
 Kent State University Computer Science Dept
 Boston University, Dept of Computer Science
and Department of Mathematics and Statistics
 MINDS Project, Univ. of Minnesota
Owamp
One-Way Latency Measurements using a mesh of
nodes in each Abilene Router Node.
Owamp:
http://owamp.internet2.edu
Owamp
Owamp tests one-way latency between all NMS4
machines using both IPv4 and IOv6. NMS4 are
synchronized with Praecis Ct CDMA Clocks
connected to each NMS4 machine.
Data is collected from each machine and
processed in a centralized database.
IPerf
IPerf is used to measure TCP and UDP
performance on the Abilene Backbone and to
Connectors and Peers
Both Automated and Manual IPerf tests are run
from the NMS1 machine. NMS1s have GigE
Connections to the Backbone T640s and have a
9000 MTU
Scheduled tests will be run and collected. These
will give a baseline on the performance of large
data flows.
SNMP Interface Statistics
SNMP Collection is done in a distributed way on the
NMS machines. Data for local routers and
switches are captured and copied back to a
central repository.
The data collected is a Hi-Resolution (10 sec)
capture of interface and environmental statistics
In addition a SNMP router proxy similar to the
Abilene router proxy is in the works to allow
access to query SNMP variables on the router
Internet2 Detective
The Internet2 Detective is an application that
provides information on the status and
capabilities of a users current network
connection.
It currently shows:
 Connectivity to a Internet 2 backbone network
 Estimate of available bandwidth
 Multicast connectivity
Internet 2 Detective Server
The Internet2 Detective users the Observatory
framework.
A modified echo server and IPerf server is used to
provide the connectivity and performance
information to each client.
More information is available at:
http://detective.internet2.edu
Multicast Beacon
 Mesh of all Abilene Router Nodes, running on
NMS2s
 Modified version of NLANR Multicast Beacon
 Saves data into RRD Database
 Graphs of Delay, Loss and Jitter statistics
 Multicast Group 233.1.2.3
 Located at:
http://loadrunner.uits.iu.edu/~neteng/nms/beacon
NTP Service
The NMS machines provide public NTP service to the
community
2 Servers are available:
 ntp-e.abilene.ucaid.edu located in New York
 ntp-w.abilene.ucaid.edu located in Sunnyvale
These servers use a mesh of stratum 1 servers for their
time. These are located on each of the NMS4
machines. The stratum 1 servers receive their time
from CDMA reception
Stratum 1 service may be available for private peering
Acknowledgments
The applications and administration of the Abilene
Observatory is the work of a large group of
people:
Jeff Boote, Eric Boyd , Prasad Calyam, Mark
Fullmer, Chris Heermann, Russ Hobby, John
Moore, Bob Riddle, Dan Pritts, Stanislav
Shalunov, Richard Summerhill, Matt Zekauskas
and the entire Abilene NOC