Portal?
• One-stop-shop for university links and resources
• Customizable interface and/or fixed default
layouts
• Defaults based on role within the university or
ad-hoc groups
• One-time login capabilities (trusted auth)
• Framework for decentralized development
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May 28| Slide 1
Common Features: Academic
• Registration
• Course List
• Financial Aid and eBill
• Library Resources
• Course Management Systems (Illinois
Compass, Blackboard, Moodle, etc.)
CITES
May 28| Slide 2
Common Features: Messaging etc
• Email
• Announcements
• RSS Reader
• Calendar
• Bookmarks
CITES
May 28| Slide 3
University of Illinois Portal
• Implementation for all three campuses;
• CITES to provide service and design, AITS to
host hardware and databases;
• Timeline:
– New students in first year;
– All students in second year;
– Faculty and staff in the third year.
CITES
May 28| Slide 4
Content and Customizations
• Layout based on roles within the university –
different tabs set up for different groups
(students, faculty, staff, etc.)
• Tabs and pages (subtabs) can be designated as
fixed or customizable within groups
• ‘Add Content’ area to list optional applications,
RSS feeds, etc.
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May 28| Slide 5
Next steps
• Steering committees on each campus are
prioritizing new content
• Refine group management capability
• Refine trusted authentication capability
• Core integrations, as well as communication
tools within the portal
• Prioritize additional portal contributions from
campus units (including you?)
CITES
May 28| Slide 6
The CITES Lens Product
CITES
May 28| Slide 7
My.illinois.edu
•Lens’ initial offering made via
portlets
•Portlets will be available under
the ITPro tab
•All IT Professionals with read or
read-write switch access in
Contact Manager will have
access.
CITES
May 28| Slide 8
The Portlets
•Portlets access data stored in
an Oracle database
•Permissions are based on the
rights assigned in Contact
Manager
CITES
May 28| Slide 9
The Portlets
•Top Talkers
•IP MAC to Port
•Net Status
•ISP Utilization
•ICCN Status
•ITPro Links
CITES
May 28| Slide 10
Top Talkers
•Will display the top X (up to 20) talkers
on your network(s)
•Default is 24 hours of data, but the date
range can be adjusted
•28 days of data is retained
•Monitored by amount of bytes, packets
or flows generated to/from off-campus
hosts
•Indicates the percentage of traffic the
campus host is sending (%Source) or
receiving (% Sink)
•Displays # of individual hosts contacted
per hour
CITES
May 28| Slide 11
Top Talkers
•When selecting an individual host you
will, by default, get an hourly breakdown
of bytes, packets or flows in Table or
Graph view.
•If a custom time period was selected,
that period will be broken up into 24
sections
•Selecting the MAC address will allow
that port to be administered in Iris
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May 28| Slide 12
Top Talkers
•Will display the top X (up to 20) talkers
on your network(s)
•Default is 24 hours of data, but the date
range can be adjusted
•28 days of data is retained
•Monitored by amount of bytes, packets
or flows generated to/from off-campus
hosts
•Indicates whether campus host is
sending (%Source) or receiving (% Sink)
traffic
•Displays # of individual hosts contacted
per hour
CITES
May 28| Slide 13
Top Talkers
Edit mode allows Users to select:
• the number of top talkers to display
• the data and Units to display
• networks Monitored/Ignored
• what hosts to ignore
Multiple Top Talker portlets can be
created monitoring different networks
CITES
May 28| Slide 14
IP MAC to Port
•Gives users a historical look at MAC to
IP resolution and switchport data
•By default all available data is searched
•Selecting a MAC or IP will search based
on that input
•Selecting a switch or switchport will take
users to Iris
CITES
May 28| Slide 15
Net Status
Shows the status of switches which
contain your network(s)
The different status states are:
•Up – Switch is responding normally
•Down – Switch is not responding
•Ack – Switch is down but acknowledged
and CITES is troubleshooting it
•Maint – Switch was brought down for
planned maintenance or removal
CITES
May 28| Slide 16
Net Status
Edit mode allows Users to
select which Switch states are
visible and the refresh rate
CITES
May 28| Slide 17
ISP Utilization
Shows the utilization of the
UIUC campus ISPs
Edit mode allows users to adjust
the Warning and Critical levels
and the refresh rate
CITES
May 28| Slide 18
ICCN Status
Shows the status of the different
layers of the ICCN.
•Optical – the optical equipment
providing transport across the
fiber optic cables
•Routing – The routers providing
access to the different campus’
networks
•Peering – the status of our
BGP peers
CITES
May 28| Slide 19
ITPro Links
Provides IT Professionals with
customizable links to campus
resources
CITES
May 28| Slide 20
What’s Next?
• Top Talkers by MAC or IP address
• Search for history of a switchport
• Network Alerts portlet
CITES
May 28| Slide 21
What’s Next?
• Peakflow
– Currently waiting on a code upgrade to
provide more functionality and increased
query speed
CITES
May 28| Slide 22
What’s Next?
Peakflow
•Capability to show inbound and
outbound traffic in the core vs
the exit
•Display multiple subnets
•Much more detail (traffic,
protocols, etc)
CITES
May 28| Slide 23
What’s Next?
$result = $lensws->getArpCurrent
API anyone? (
•Proof-of-concept @headers, @data
has been completed );
successfully in Ruby
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
and Perl
•Currently trying to ./lens-perl.pl --ip=192.17.25.149 (or hostname)
determine what is Results for search:
involved and a ip 192.17.25.149
fqdn wahya.ci.uiuc.edu
tentative release mac 001ec20edd6b
date firstSeen 2008-04-28T10:22:19-
lastSeen 2008-05-06T15:12:23-
routerName dist1-1
CITES
May 28| Slide 24
Feedback
• As always, please let us know what you
think!
• nettoolsdev@uiuc.edu
CITES
May 28| Slide 25
Thanks!
• Thank you to the beta users who helped
develop this product
• The U of I Portal team, including AITS
• CITES: SMG, Oracle DBAs, and Storage
Team
CITES
May 28| Slide 26
Thanks!
• The people that actually created the product:
Brian, Jon, Ramon, Ross, Subhan, and Todd
no dogs were injured during the creation of these portlets
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May 28| Slide 27