Available Services and Functionalities Clause Samples

Available Services and Functionalities. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ services are provided by modules. Currently, there are modules for: • General networking metrics. • Intrusion detection (agents analyse information generated by SNORT [SNORT]). • Wide Area Network (WAN) topology. • Available bandwidth (using path load). • Dynamic path allocation (dynamically create circuits between two points). The services implemented in perfSONAR are directly related to network performance monitoring. perfSONAR has been designed with network performance monitoring and GEANT-integration in mind. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ has been designed as a general monitoring framework to be built on and not specific for network monitoring. Therefore, an exact comparison with the services provided by perfSONAR is very difficult. Both applications provide support for traffic metrics like Round Trip Time (RTT), jitter, link utilisation, packet counters (in, out, error, drops). Both applications support storing data in databases. perfSONAR is easier to deploy in an existing environment and easier to configure to use existing network data (data within RRD files produces by other applications). ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, as a general monitoring framework, cannot easily be configured to use data from other applications. However, using ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, it is easier to build a custom network monitoring solution that can monitor both network and network-dependent applications, or a solution that can execute actions (like circuit reconfiguration or traffic rerouting).