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WHY AUTOMATE?
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WHY AUTOMATE?NUMBER OF SERVICES IN 2014
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WHY AUTOMATE?NUMBER OF SERVICES IN 2016
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WHY AUTOMATE?NUMBER OF SERVICES IN 2017
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OPERATIONAL STAFF UTILISATION
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Deploying new customers
10%
Planning + deploying upgrades to
infrastructure
10%
Attending meetings with clients and
internally
5%
Troubleshooting
faults
75%
SO, WHY?
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WHY: REALLY
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Because we’re LAZY
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THE INTENDED (MEASURABLE) BENEFITS
Easier operation & improved security
through increased
consistency,reduced human
error and continual auditing
Improved customer
experience
Easier delivery of services
and reduced staff effort through
self-service
through telemetry and
analytics
through integration of
network, systems, applications &
cloud into a single platform
Better visibility for operations and
customers
WHAT’S OUR APPROACH?
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BUILDING BLOCKS
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Billing CRMNetwork Elements
Service inventory
Customers Staff
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VISION
Automation and data analytics software toolkit
Improved customer experience through operational excellence
API-driven network + systems platform
Sector and institutional platforms
AARNet Network &
systems3rd Party Cloud
Providers
Service provisioning
Incident management
Operational assurance
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Billing CRMNetwork Elements
Service inventory
Customers Staff
HOW ARE WE APPROACHING THIS?
Incident management tools Operational assurance tools Service provisioning tools
Customer list: linecard failure
Customer list: fibre cut
Customer list: POP power outage
Identify recurring faults
PE/NTU configs Monitor/alarming
DNS updates Routing
Redundant service Upgrades
Service deletion End-to-end svc
Status page
Reconcile actual vs provisioned vs billing
Standardise configs
Net status pre/post planned change
Traffic graphing for capacity planning
etc… etc… IRR updates Etc…
API-driven network & systems building blocks
Information stores
Service inventory DB
Secure document storage
Element DB Billing system
Virtual + lab TND instance to simulate
platform
CI/CD toolchain
VirtualisationContainerisation
Orchestration
NetworkServersStorage
CRM
API-driven network & systems building blocks
Automation building blocks
Incident management tools Operational assistance tools Service provisioning tools
Customer list: linecard failure
Customer list: fibre cut
Customer list: POP power outage
Identify recurring faults
PE/NTU configs Monitor/alarming
DNS updates Routing
Redundant service Upgrades
Service deletion End-to-end svc
Status page
Reconcile actual vs provisioned vs billing
Standardise configs
Net status pre/post planned change
Traffic graphing for capacity planning
Virtual + lab TND instance to simulate
platform
CI/CD toolchain
VirtualisationContainerisation
Orchestration
etc… etc…
NetworkServersStorage
IRR updates Etc…
Service inventory DB
Secure document storage
Element DB Billing system CRM
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Example: Network Audit Tool
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Example: IRR update tool
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Example: NOC Tool
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Example: Data analytics
HOW ARE WE DOING THIS?
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HOW
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Warning - unfortunate truth follows:
Automation is hard.(Although not always technically hard.)
NETWORK AUTOMATION…
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1. BUILD A VIRTUAL MODEL
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Grey Box Monitoring & Analysis
http://www.eve-ng.net/
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2. BUILD A PHYSICAL LAB
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http://www.flickriver.com/photos/anachrocomputer/3080420597/
Grey Box Monitoring & Analysis
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3. START SMALL AND BUILD UNIT TESTS
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Grey Box Monitoring & Analysis
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mobile/automated-device-testing-with-aws-device-farm-and-jenkins/
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4. THE HOLY GRAIL: CI-CD
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4. THE HOLY GRAIL: CI-CD
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MAKE IT VISIBLE – AGILE
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MAKE IT VISIBLE – AGILE
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NEXT LEVEL 31337
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Grey Box Monitoring & Analysis
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USEFUL LINKS
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Grey Box Monitoring & Analysis
Virtual testbed
• EVE-NG (http://www.eve-ng.net)
• VRNetLab (https://github.com/plajjan/vrnetlab)
• VIRL (http://virl.cisco.com)
• Wistar (https://github.com/Juniper/wistar)
• GNS3 (http://www.gns3.com)
CI/CD
• Jenkins (https://jenkins.io/)
• Travis (https://travis-ci.org/)
• TeamCity (http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/)
Automation
• Ansible (https://www.ansible.com/)
• SaltStack (https://saltstack.com/)
• Puppet (https://puppet.com/)
• Chef (https://www.chef.io/)
Juniper
• PyEZ (https://github.com/Juniper/py-junos-eznc)
• VMX (https://www.juniper.net/us/en/products-services/routing/mx-series/vmx/)
