SoftFIRE Middleware Architecture Clause Samples

SoftFIRE Middleware Architecture. In particular, the current version of SoftFIRE comprises the following managers: • SDN Manager: manages SDN resources • Security Manager: for the Security resources • NFV Manager: manages NFV resources integrating external NFV frameworks into the SoftFIRE middleware • Monitoring Manager: provides experimenter monitoring resource access • Physical Device Manager: handles the access to the physical resources The main component of the middleware is the EM. It is responsible for distributing operations of an experiment’s deployment to the responsible manager and keeping the overall status of the experiment. Other managers register to the EM, so that they are known and so that the EM is able to send to them requests required for an experiment and to get status information about the resources they are charge of. The internal communication between the resource managers and the EM is realized using the