Network Sanity Checks Through Graphs

Abstract

This paper focuses on the approach we adopted to tackle a specific company need. Since one of our main core businesses is selling bandwidth of our fiber optics network, it is essential for us to monitor the network status of the bandwidth and its topology. The currently used internal tool is limited to check the bandwidth of a single node and we run the risk to discover band or topology related issues when it is too late: when an operator makes a specific band request. This is the reason why we developed and implemented an algorithm to perform a series of sanity checks over the whole network. Our internal tool has been extended and integrated with this new algorithm. We discuss our problem, the solution and its final implementation integrated inside our novel web application tool.