Anemone is a project investigating management of enterprise networks. It aims to build a network management platform based around two main components: (i) end-system flow monitoring, providing the inputs to the system; and (ii) monitoring of the network routeing protocols, providing current system configuration. By aggregating and querying these data sources in a distributed fashion, Anemone will provide a platform on which network management applications can be built to provide tools for visualization, what-if analysis, and control of the network.
Edge-based network management
Anemone is investigating network and systems management from the edges of the network, initially focusing on enterprise network management. It aims to build a network management platform based around two main components: (i) endsystem flow monitoring, providing the inputs to the system; and (ii) monitoring of the network routeing protocols, providing current system configuration. By aggregating and querying these data sources in a distributed fashion, Anemone will provide a platform on which network management applications can be built to provide tools for visualization, what-if analysis, and control of the network.
Papers
- Reclaiming Network-wide Visibility Using Ubiquitous Endsystem Monitors
Anemone feasibility study presented at USENIX Technical Conference 2006. - Anemone: Using endsystems as a rich network management platform
Two page version of technical report (below) to appear at SIGCOMM MineNet workshop, August 2005. - Anemone: Using endsystems as a rich network management platform
Microsoft Research Technical Report MS-TR-2005-62. Extended version of 6 page MineNets submission.
Posters/Demos
- Anemone: Edge-based network management
Abstract for posters displayed in conjunction with a demo at the INFOCOM 2005 poster/demo session.
Talks
- Reclaiming Network-wide Visibility Using Ubiquitous End System Monitors
Slides accompanying the USENIX'06 paper, above. - Anemone: Network sampling in space not time
Presented at the Paris Sampling the Internet workshop, this talk discusses some of the sampling issues that might be raised with the sort of data that Anemone produces. - Anemone: Edge-based network management
Another overview presentation, this time including details of the demo presented at INFOCOM 2005. This talk was given at Princeton University and Telcordia (March/2005). - Anemone: Edge-based network management
An overview presentation on the project which motivates the system, outlines the design, and presents some feasibility study results. This talk was given at University College London (14/Dec/04). - ENMA: Co-operation in the Corporation
An older version of the presentation above, given at University of Michigan (7/Sep/04) and Intel Research Berkeley (2/Dec/04). The name changed from ENMA to Anemone after a paper reviewer complained that, when repeated a few times, the name sounded like a word unfit for use in polite society.
Project Members
- Richard Mortier
- Austin Donnelly (primary contact)
- Rebecca Isaacs
- Paul Barham
