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 CITES
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Common Features: Academic
• • • • • Registration Course List Financial Aid and eBill Library Resources Course Management Systems (Illinois Compass, Blackboard, Moodle, etc.)
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Common Features: Messaging etc
• • • • • Email Announcements RSS Reader Calendar Bookmarks
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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.
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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. CITES
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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
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The CITES Lens Product
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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.
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The Portlets
•Portlets access data stored in an Oracle database •Permissions are based on the rights assigned in Contact Manager
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The Portlets
•Top Talkers •IP MAC to Port •Net Status •ISP Utilization •ICCN Status •ITPro Links
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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Net Status
Edit mode allows Users to select which Switch states are visible and the refresh rate
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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
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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
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ITPro Links
Provides IT Professionals with customizable links to campus resources
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What’s Next?
• Top Talkers by MAC or IP address • Search for history of a switchport • Network Alerts portlet
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What’s Next?
• Peakflow
– Currently waiting on a code upgrade to provide more functionality and increased query speed
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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)
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What’s Next?
API anyone? •Proof-of-concept has been completed successfully in Ruby and Perl •Currently trying to determine what is involved and a tentative release date
$result = $lensws->getArpCurrent ( @headers, @data );
------------------------------------------------------------------------./lens-perl.pl --ip=192.17.25.149 (or hostname) Results for search: ip fqdn mac firstSeen lastSeen routerName 192.17.25.149 wahya.ci.uiuc.edu 001ec20edd6b 2008-04-28T10:22:192008-05-06T15:12:23dist1-1
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Feedback
• As always, please let us know what you think! • nettoolsdev@uiuc.edu
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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
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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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