Re: [sfc-dev] [controller-dev] Health Checks to external network functions

2016-09-20 Thread Brady Allen Johnson
The SFC project has functionality that can "indirectly" monitor network functions (called Service Functions in SFC). I say indirectly since the monitoring is used for what we call Service Function (SF) scheduling algorithms, which helps us choose which SF to use based on either CPU load, or s

Re: [sfc-dev] [controller-dev] Health Checks to external network functions

2016-09-20 Thread Sela, Guy
The question you wrote in the end, is exactly my question:) Should pings/KPI/etc be conducted by ODL, or should this logic reside in an external monitoring tool, and notified back to the ODL on state change? From: Brady Allen Johnson [mailto:brady.allen.john...@ericsson.com] Sent: Tuesday, Septem

[sfc-dev] Health Checks to external network functions

2016-09-20 Thread Sela, Guy
Hi, Is there any project/plugin in ODL that its purpose is to conduct health checks ? I'm referring to the health of external machines that run network functions for example (firewalls, load balancers, content filtering, etc.). Health checks can be pings, load, generic scripts etc. In a real de