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diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1b96a90d --- /dev/null +++ b/README.rst @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +Barometer +--------- +.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. +.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 + +:: + + Note: this repository provides a demo implementation. It is not intended + for unmodified use in production. It has not been tested for production. + + + +The ability to monitor the Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure +(NFVI) where VNFs are in operation will be a key part of Service Assurance +within an NFV environment, in order to enforce SLAs or to detect violations, +faults or degradation in the performance of NFVI resources so that events +and relevant metrics are reported to higher level fault management systems. +If fixed function appliances are going to be replaced by virtualized +appliances the service levels, manageability and service assurance needs +to remain consistent or improve on what is available today. + +As such, the NFVI needs to support the ability to monitor: + +#. Traffic monitoring and performance monitoring of the components that + provide networking functionality to the VNF, including: physical + interfaces, virtual switch interfaces and flows, as well as the + virtual interfaces themselves and their status, etc. +#. Platform monitoring including: CPU, memory, load, cache, thermals, fan + speeds, voltages and machine check exceptions, etc. + + +All of the statistics and events gathered must be collected in-service and +must be capable of being reported by standard Telco mechanisms (e.g. SNMP, +REST), for potential enforcement or correction actions. In addition, this +information could be fed to analytics systems to enable failure prediction, +and can also be used for intelligent workload placement. + + |