A Standards-Based Alarms Service for Monitoring Federated Networks

Operators of federated networks require timely detection and diagnosis of networking problems. For detection of such problems, access to monitoring data that exists in multiple organisations is necessary. This paper presents an ongoing work on an Alarms Service which uses a standards-based access mechanism to obtain monitoring data from multiple organisations and then raises alarms based on pre-defined conditions. It discusses typical monitoring requirements from such networks and how these can be addressed with a flexible architecture.