In a world where technological services are becoming increasingly dynamic and adaptable to customer needs thanks to virtualization and microservices—technologies applied in all areas, including communication-based services—monitoring tools need to evolve to keep up and continue to offer all the features expected of them.
In this post, we’ll discuss the advantages of Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology over traditional networks and the challenge it poses for monitoring.
The aforementioned advantages pose a challenge when it comes to monitoring network equipment; instead of querying each of the physical devices that make up a network (routers, switches, firewalls, etc.) to obtain the metrics that give us visibility, with SDN, we have to query everything to a single device, which entails a significant change.
At WOCU-Monitoring, we have developed a series of Monitoring Packs to address this new technology, such as the fortigate-switch-controller, for SDNs implemented with FORTINET equipment.
This monitoring has the main advantage of reducing noise in the network by not having to query each of the devices, but it loses the standardization of monitoring that existed through SNMP.
The process to discover and monitor FORTINET devices would be as follows:
Monitoring must be as agile and flexible as the platform being monitored.
