[154948] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: MPLS L2VPN monitoring
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Siegel, David)
Tue Jul 17 09:58:38 2012
From: "Siegel, David" <Dave.Siegel@level3.com>
To: Peter Ehiwe <peterehiwe@gmail.com>, North American Network Operators'
Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:56:12 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CADECfTVgKXJz8sx-0isqcCBS-FObn1oGsmjyawg28GPZ1GC4LA@mail.gmail.com>
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We deploy NIDs to the customer premise. You just can't get enough alarm da=
ta be looking only at your router/switch on your side of an Ethernet NNI to=
give you a proper indication of whether the service is functional, and it =
also happens to be quite handy to have when a performance test/verification=
is required.
There are a variety of vendors out there to choose from...we have quite a l=
ot of Tellabs and Accedian out in the field.
I had hoped that last mile vendors would have been providing NIDs "smartjac=
k" style by now in a fairly ubiquitous fashion, but alas none of them have =
stepped up to the plate so we're still putting them out there on our own di=
me.
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Ehiwe [mailto:peterehiwe@gmail.com]=20
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 4:14 AM
To: North American Network Operators' Group
Subject: MPLS L2VPN monitoring
Hello ,
For those who provide l2vpn services to customers over MPLS , what kind of =
tools do you use for monitoring the circuits and what kind of values do yo=
u proactively monitor
I have tools in place to monitor these circuits but i want to know based on=
group members experiences in order to improve my monitoring platform for t=
his circuits.
Thanks a lot!
