GÉANT Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are established under the auspices of GÉANT in order to create an open forum where experts from its community exchange information, knowledge, ideas and best practices about specific technical or other areas of business relevant to the research and education networking community.
The GÉANT SIG – Network Operations Centres is the successor of the former TERENA Task Force on NOCs (aka. TF-NOC).
The main topics covered by the new SIG would include, but would not be limited to
- To facilitate knowledge exchange and collaboration for leading staff members of Network Operation Centres (NOCs) as well as network engineers involved in the integration and optimization of NOC tools and processes in order to foster the development and improvement of NOCs, primarily within the research and education community.
- To explore and get an understanding of the taxonomy of Network Operation Centres, collecting information on how NOCs do things and then discuss how to enhance them and document this for future reference.
- To offer a forum for exchanging and promoting ideas, experience and knowledge on NOC tools, functions, workflows, procedures and best practices, making communication easier.
- To facilitate the inter-NOC discussions in case of multi-domain services.
- To liaise with GÉANT Operations, and other e-infrastructures such as EGI, EUDAT, and PRACE.
- To foster face-to-face and online meetings, providing a breeding ground to discuss, elaborate and disseminate early thoughts, brought in by members of the research and education community that can evolve into projects or services.
The proposed achievements and KPIs for the third year (2018 - 2019) are summarized in the table below
Report on satisfaction levels and how results will inform future activities with the feedback from the meetings.
.The proposed achievements and KPIs for the third year (2017 - 2018) are summarized in the table below
The proposed achievements and KPIs for the second year (2016 - 2017) are summarized in the table below
due to April 2017
due to April 2017
due to April 2017
The proposed achievements and KPIs for the first year (2015 - 2016) are summarized in the table below
Planned achievements
KPIs
Report
Discuss, design and develop recommendations for a NOC Personnel’s Training (basic) and potential Certification Programme in order to bring/keep NOC staff up to the “standard” level.
List of recommendations
due to April 2016
Invite NOC tool developers and organize half-day technical tutorial sessions on various products/topics.
1 or 2 tutorials
- Icinga2
- SPLUNK and ELK
- OpenNMS
- DDoS mitigations
due to April 2016
Extend the reach of the community to regional, metropolitan and campus NOCs.
2-3 new NOCs to join in this category
- Educational Network Rhineland-Palatinate
- 25 NOCs answered the 2nd NOC Tools survey in this category compared to the 5 NOCs in 2012.
- New internationals: CANARIE, AARNet
- New Europeans: RENAM
due to April 2016
The SIG-NOC Charter can be downloaded from here.
The former TF-NOC pages can be found at https://www.terena.org/activities/tf-noc/
Participation
- Anyone currently associated with an National Regional Network or an R&E institution may participate in the mailing list or attend the SIG meetings. Participation is not limited to European organisations
- Anyone currently associated with an non-National Regional Network or an non-R&E institution (generally a commercial organisation) may participate in the mailing list. Participation is not limited to European organisations
- Anyone currently associated with an non-National Regional Network or an non-R&E institution may participate in the SIG-NOC meetings once they have been formally invited by the GEANT SIG-NOC Steering committee. Participation is not limited to European organisations. Usually only one non R&E organisation is invited per meeting.
Facts
This is the third year of SIG-NOC
1 May 2017 - 30 April 20182 May 2016 - 30 April 2017.
1 May 2015 - 30 April 2016.
The SIG-NOC is jointly led by its Steering Committee
- Maria Isabel Gandía Carriedo (CSUC)
- Jonny Lundin (NORDUnet)
- Maria Isabel Gandía Carriedo (CSUC)
- Ana Medina Barahona (RedIRIS)
Mick O’Donovan (HEAnet)
- Ivana Golub (PSNC)
- Jože Hanc (ARNES)
- Nadelina Sandu (GÉANT) - CoordinatorTony Barber (GÉANT)
Community
~220 people on the mailing list
Non-exclusive list of active SIG participants are
AARNet, ACOnet, AMRES, Belnet, CANARIE, CARNet, CESNET, CSC/Funet, GÉANT, GRNET, HEAnet, IUCC, NORDUnet, PSNC, RENATER, RedIRIS, RENAM, SWITCH, UNINETT, BelWü, CSUC, SURFSara, Rhineland-Palatinate, CERN, CSUC, GÉANT, SUNET