In this session, come and share your requirements and comments about the next generation of Jisc’s Janet network netsight with the people who are leading the development of the new network monitoring system. This is your chance to ‘have your say’ on the development of the system and input into the process with what your particular requirements are.

1. NextGen Netsight

2. Introduction
»What is Netsight?
»What information is available from Netsight?
› Traffic
› Ping
› RTT
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3. Our thoughts
»Performance
»Presentation
»Additional features
General improvements in the new system
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4. Purpose
»Initial requirements gathering
› Presentation
› Reports
»Understand our customers’ needs
Purpose of this BoF session
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5. Survey
»surveymonkey.co.uk/r/RFKJH3C
»Available until the end of March
› Later if needed
»Results so far…
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6. Survey Q1.Typical use
»Answered: 39
»Skipped: 0
How often do you use Netsight
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7. Survey Q2.Typical use
»Answered: 38
»Skipped: 1
On average, how many people in your organisation
would you estimate use Netsight?
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8. Survey Q3. Logins
»Answered: 38
»Skipped: 1
Netsight currently has a single login per organisation. Would you
prefer to have individual user logins?
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9. Survey Q4. Logins
»“logins combined under the logins already in use for other
JISC services”
»“SSO/Federated access“
»“graphic for individual source IP if it is possible“
»“no benefit to having multiple logins as there are no
saveable preferences or options.”
»“Q3 only matters IF you have some R/W control. R/O is
fine as long as it's limited to a site, as currently.”
Please describe any access/login improvements that
you would like to see
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10. Survey Q5. Data
»Answered: 33
»Skipped: 6
Do any of your operational processes rely on Netsight data?
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11. Survey Q6. Data
»Answered: 33
»Skipped: 6
What Netsight data do you look at? (Check all that apply)
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12. Survey Q7. Data
»Answered: 31
»Skipped: 8
What other data features would you like to be able to see?
(Check all that apply)
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13. Survey Q8. Reports
»Answered: 32
»Skipped: 7
Would you like to have reports made available?
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14. Survey Q9. Reports
»Answered: 32
»Skipped: 7
Netsight is free. Are you likely to be interested in optional
additional report services, e.g. alerts, for a small charge?
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15. Survey Q10. Comments
» “… a very useful tool to have. I wouldn't like to lose it.“
»“Would be useful to be able to get older data at times.”
»“I use Netsight to inform our KPI's about internet uptime.”
»“More frequent data gathering to avoid smoothing of spikes…”
»“…not aware we could take a data feed…, not sure where the
documentation is…, would be useful to be able to produce a
custom display…”
Highlights from responses…
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16. Survey Q10. Comments (2)
»“Might be useful to make it available to the community
for doing more granular monitoring of internal services?“
»“…a facility where we could export reports which contain
graphs for several of our JANET connections. …a report
which lists the dates/times that connections have been
detected as being down. ”
»“would be useful to be able to print the graphs and to
export the raw data into something like excel direct from
the page.”
Highlights from responses (cont) …
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17. Survey Q10. Comments (3)
» “Simple to access/use. Informative and helps with Bandwidth
resourcing and planning. ”
»“Use of paid alerts would be dependant on the cost.We host
and run similar software which does feature alerting.”
»“our reports don't work currently, they run but there's no data
in them, not since we moved over to vodafone. we are
expecting a new router soon, maybe that will help sort it out.”
»“Some of the "Explore" section can be confusing and
probably redundant.”
Highlights from responses (cont) …
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18. Get involved
»Are you interested in helping us develop the system?
› Full time Developer role vacancy available
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19. Thanks for participating
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Survey url:
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/RFKJH3C
Contact info:
Ewan Quibell ewan.quibell@jisc.ac.uk
Ramesh Baskaran ramesh.baskarn@jisc.ac.uk
Martin Dunmore martin.dunmore@jisc.ac.uk
Margaret Lynch margaret.lynch@jisc.ac.uk