Sep 22nd, 2006 |
The InteropNET is more than just a production network feeding the show floor, class rooms and meeting rooms at the Interop trade show. Traditionally its also been a big sandbox to test out emerging technologies. One of the InteropNET Team long time members brought in RealOps to show how they can automate just about anything that a sysadmin would want to do with recurring processes.
Link to RealOps: IT Process Automation Software
Steve Bavington of RealOps twisted a few arms to jump into the fray at HotStage (In Belmont, California where we pre-build the InteropNET) and dropped in a RealOps server to help the team automate the on the fly reconfiguration of the GigaMon box at the show. In this case the process on the RealOps server had a web front end that would allow us to click on a button to reconfigure the GigaVue so that the tap between our external router and our primary switch would get swapped to a different analysis tool.
The Web GUI to swap where one of our analysis tools looked in the network
The process flow diagram
A weather map showing status of nodes by changing colors and shapes of the icons on the map.
What some of the code looks like under the hood.
Brian Chee is a researcher at the University of Hawaii School of Ocean and Earth Sciences and Technology (SOEST) and runs the Advanced Network Computing Lab. He is also a Senior Contributing Editor with InfoWorld Magazine. As a 12 year veteran of the InteropNET Team, Brian was the VOICE team lead for the New York 2006 Interop Show.
