MTUSI: Automatic Network Infrastructure Management and Monitoring System

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2024: Introduction of automatic network infrastructure management and monitoring system

MTUSI is developing a system for automatic control and monitoring of network infrastructure. The university announced this on April 27, 2024.

With the development of infocommunication networks, there was a need to deploy, configure (configure) and reconfigure a large number of devices in minimal time and without errors.

Manual configuration and imperative approach takes a long time, is prone to errors and inefficient with a large amount of infrastructure, and does not have the ability to structurally store network information and versioning.

Associate Professor of the Department of SiSFS Buzhin Igor Gennadievich, together with assistant Gnezdilov Vladislav Stanislavovich, are developing a software package for managing, monitoring and describing the network infrastructure through configuration files based on the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach.

This system will allow the assembly of the configuration of network infrastructure devices, validation and testing of the configuration, delivery to equipment and verification, collection of metrics and equipment states, monitoring of failures and errors, adaptive configuration and response to monitoring events, the ability to configure based on a no-code solution, display the current state of the network and have an IPAM/DCIM system. The platform under development is based on the consistency of data on the current state of the network at each stage of the workflow.

The final product can be aimed at working with hardware and software network devices, including domestic ones, with SDN solutions, with VPS, as well as with Container Network Interface (CNI) Kubernetes, - said the head. Department of "Networks and Fixed Communication Systems" MTUSI, Ph.D., Associate Professor Veronika Antonova.

During the development of the system, functions such as an event-driven reconfiguration model based on monitoring data, displaying the current state of the network, and building a network map at various levels will also be available.