ixp best common practices trilogy - for the infrastructure

Best Common Practices for IXPs management

infrastructure

Franck Simon – France IX Services

fsimon@franceix.net

BCP for IXPs – Management infrastructure •  Monitoring  and  management  :    

– Dedicated  infrastructure  (DMZ  or  VLAN  dedicated  to  management)  

– OOB  management  • Console  access  •  SSH  access  and  VPNs  

–  In-­‐band  management    

=>  Secure/restrict  access  to  your  equipment  

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BCP for IXPs – Monitoring •  Deploy  servers/monitoring  tools  •  Elements  to  monitor:  

–  Detect  any  chance  of  MAC  address  on  the  IXP  (ARPwatch…)  

–  Chassis:  •  CPU/processor  (including  linecards  CPU  when  appropriate)  

•  Memory  usage  •  Fans  •  Power  units  

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•  Elements  to  monitor:  –  Ports  (both  members  and  backbone  ports):  

•  Ports  status  changes  •  CRC,  input  errors…  •  Unicast  packets,  non  Unicast  packets,  average  packets  size  …  

•  OpXcal  levels  and  opXcs  temperatures  •  In/out  traffic  

=>  Don’t  forget  to  also  monitor  your  monitoring  infrastructure,  not  only  the  IXP  infrastructure  !  

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Cf.  Euro-­‐IX  document  :    h^ps://www.euro-­‐ix.net/documents/1391-­‐euro-­‐ix-­‐ixp-­‐bcops-­‐221014-­‐pdf?download=yes  

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