[AusNOG] Thought experiment: How would you manage 11 (or 100) million devices?

[Narelle]

Use an NGOSS model for starters. Only publish and subscribe models
work on this sort of scale.

Build comprehensive summarisation and aggregation systems.

Statistically, something will always be down, so self healing
approaches are also necessary... think of those 'hive systems' models
where knowledge is localised as well as global.

first thoughts anyway


Narelle

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Andrew Fort <afort at choqolat.org> wrote:
> Amongst the clever folk I'm presently working with, this has been a
> recurring topic of conversation for some time.  We've had all sorts of
> ideas that I'd like to share, but first, I figure it's worth posing
> the question to operators.  So, here's a question for operators and
> tool developers on the list in particular:
>
> How would you go about managing (lets assume via IPvSomething, SNMP,
> TL1, CLIs, et al) 11 million devices? *   Assume that you need to
> gather performance stats, alerts, and configure the devices to do
> stuff.
>
> What sort of architecture would you build?  What technologies would
> you use?  What assumptions are you making?  What sorts of team
> structures and software development approaches would you use to do it,
> and to make sure that you have the skills locally (not in Canada, or
> where-ever else) to fix the inevitable problems?
>
> * 11 million devices is the number of nodes the NBN folks mentioned at
> AusNOG, but if you're thinking at this scale, you should be able to
> make your solution scale to 100 million, or a billion devices.  Be
> creative!



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