MOME Interoperability testing event
28-30 July 2005
Paris, France
before the 63rd IETF meeting in Paris (31 July - 5 August 2005)
Partners: Eurolabs, MoMe, ETSI
Participants: 44 engineers from 18 companies.
Tests results are available on D13 - MOME Interoperability Testing Event deliverable.
The press release of the event has been published - 29 August 2005.
The MOME project invited participants to the Monitoring and Measurement tools interoperability event.
This event was organized by the MOME project in cooperation with the Eurolabs project and the ETSI Plugtests Service.
The event was co-located with the 63rd IETF meeting at Le Palais des Congrès De Paris,
address - 2, Place de la Porte Maillot, 75017 Paris Cedex 17 France.
The event took place on 28 July to 30 July 2005 from 9:00 to 18:00 in
the room 332M/333M.
Event purpose and objectives
There exist a number of Monitoring and Measurement tools in common use. Although they may share similar protocols and mechanisms they differ significantly in many aspects including data export format, export protocol, mechanism to transfer configuration information, transport mechanisms, devices state information, sampling methods, and reporting results. Consequently it is difficult to develop generalised tools that are a requirement in today interoperable networks.
In addition the industry and the research community need devices working in a standardized way to facilitate their interaction and usage in services such as Internet research, measurement, accounting, and billing.
The interoperability event aimed on the following objectives and benefits:
- To support ongoing research on traffic measurement and monitoring tools
- To ensure that relevant and upcoming standards are understood and followed by projects and companies
- To increase interoperability awareness and synergy between developers of companies and projects
- To improve and debug implementations
- To check the interoperability of implementations
Event Description
The MOME interoperability event provided a neutral environment for manufacturers, software companies and research institutes to test their implementations. This event focused on the Monitoring and Measurement related tools and similar technologies.
The tested protocols are listed below.
- IPFIX
- IPFIX test scenarios
- detailed test specs available for participants
- PSAMP
- postponed
- OWAMP
- tests will be performed externally, after the Interop event
- please contact us if you'd like to participate
- NSIS
- detailed test specs available for participants
- NETFLOW version 9
- interop tests covered by IPFIX tester group
- NETCONF
Relevant draft documents include
for IPFIX draft-ietf-ipfix-protocol-16.txt
and
draft-ietf-ipfix-info-08.txt ;
for IPPM OWAMP
draft-ietf-ippm-owdp-14.txt;
for NSIS RFC 3726,
for NETFLOW RFC 3954
and
Internet drafts (draft-ietf-psamp-sample-tech-06.txt, draft-ietf-psamp-mib-04.txt)
for PSAMP, all published by the IETF.
Programme
The programme of the event:
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Thursday, July 28th
09:00 - 09:15 Registration on site
09:15 - 10:00 Setup of Test Environment, the testbed (by MOME)
10:00 - 12:00 tests providers and participants set up/installation of test equipment
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 - 13:15 Welcome note and introduction to the MOME project
13:15 - 13:30 Presentation of planned tests (general program)
13:30 - 18:00 Organisation of planned tests (per Group)
-
Execution of first head-to-head tests
Participants feedback: enrollment to next tests
Friday, July 29th
09:00 - 09:15 Registration on site for people attending only from day two on
09:15 - 09:45 Presentation of planned tests (general program /per Group)
09:45 - 12:30 Execution of head-to-head tests
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 - 18:00 Execution of head-to-head tests
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Participants feedback: enrollment to next tests
Saturday, July 30th
09:00 - 09:30 Presentation of planned tests (general program /per Group)
09:30 - 12:30 Execution of final head-to-head tests
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:00 Summarizing of test results (per Group, or per participant with test provider only)
15:00 - 15:30 Wrap-up and conclusions: Presentation of overall event (by MOME);
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Participants' feedback
Participants
The companies invited are:
- Manufacturers who can detect some problems between the tools components and mature them, and introduce testers to the newest features of their products.
- The test tool providers who can check the features offered by their solutions in a live testing environment and meet potential users of their equipment. More importantly they will support participants during testing.
Confidentiality Agreement
To protect the intellectual property rights of attendees of the MOME Interop Event it was required to sign and submit a confidentiality agreement. This agreement was intended to protect the participants in these tests and to ensure that any information relating to such tests is used solely to further the purpose of interoperability. It had to be signed in order for your company to participate in the testing event. You can download the agreement (1 page).
More information
- Interoperability event participants technical information
- MOME standardisation event was held on 31 July 2005