Dedicated Software-Defined Networking Network for Performance Monitoring of Production Software-Defined Networking Network

摘要

According to one aspect disclosed herein, a performance monitoring SDN controller can translate an intent specified by a performance monitoring application into a flow rule and an action set to be utilized by a performance monitoring SDN element to process a packet flow received from the target SDN network. The performance monitoring SDN controller can provide the flow rule and the action set to a performance monitoring SDN element, which can receive the packet flow from the target SDN network and can analyze the packet flow in accordance with the flow rule to match the packet flow to an action included within the action set. The performance monitoring SDN element can execute the action to monitor a performance metric of the packet flow and to provide a value for the performance metric to the performance monitoring application agent, which can generate a message that includes the value.

主权项

1. A performance monitoring system for monitoring performance of a target software-defined networking network, the performance monitoring system comprising:
a network virtualization platform comprising a plurality of hardware resources; and a performance monitoring software-defined networking network comprising a performance monitoring software-defined networking element, a performance monitoring software-defined networking controller, and a performance monitoring application agent that are executable by the plurality of hardware resources of the network virtualization platform to perform operations comprising:
translating, by the performance monitoring software-defined networking controller, an intent specified by a performance monitoring application into a flow rule and an action set to be utilized by a performance monitoring software-defined networking element to process a packet flow received from the target software-defined networking network,providing, by the performance monitoring software-defined networking controller, the flow rule and the action set to the performance monitoring software-defined networking element,receiving, by the performance monitoring software-defined networking element, the flow rule and the action set from the performance monitoring software-defined networking controller and the packet flow from the target software-defined networking network,analyzing, by the performance monitoring software-defined networking element, the packet flow in accordance with the flow rule to match the packet flow to an action comprised within the action set,executing, by the performance monitoring software-defined networking element, the action to monitor a performance metric of the packet flow received from the target software-defined networking network and to provide a value for the performance metric to the performance monitoring application agent,receiving, by the performance monitoring application agent, the value for the performance metric, andgenerating, by the performance monitoring application agent, a message comprising the value for the performance metric.