AutoNOC

AutoNOC is a highly scalable production network management platform that utilizes novel distributed grid technologies. The software is developed and maintained by , a company founded in 1997 and based in Atlanta, Georgia. AutoNOC's founder and the primary software architect is Kyle Lussier. AutoNOC is currently used by various organizations including community colleges, university-wide WANs, eCommerce companies, and financial institutions. It is estimated that the AutoNOC software is used to manage and monitor 3 to 4% of global Internet traffic.

Automated Network Operations Using Grid/Distributed Computing
AutoNOC supports a computational model that allows many servers (called grid nodes) to be deployed. These grid nodes work together to form a large internetworked computer that shares operations tasks across all servers. Data access, acquisition, processing, and aggregation is distributed and shared across all grid nodes.

When a user connects to an AutoNOC node, this node presents to the user an interface that represents all computational resources and servers currently at use. Information across the many servers is integrated and the user may utilize the assets across the grid to perform data analysis and design custom user views of network information and things happening on networks.

Supported Platforms

AutoNOC currently supports the following operating systems:

* Linux/Red Hat
* Windows 2000/2003/XP

Processing Architectures (32/64 Bit)
AutoNOC has been released and is supported for the following CPU architectures:

* [http://en. .org/wiki/X86 Intel x86 (32-Bit)]
* [http://en. .org/wiki/EM64T#Intel_64 Intel Emu64 (64-Bit Hybrid)]
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Security and Open Port Information

AutoNOC currently makes use of the following IP ports:

* Port 80 (HTTP)
* Port 443 (SSL)
* Port 1140 (ANOC)

In the case of port 80, this is a user configurable port and may be modified by the user. Port 443 (SSL) is a standard HTTPS implementation providing secure HTTP services for secure authentication.

Port 1140 is an that is registered for the reserved use of AutoNOC. The port provides grid node to grid node interactions, as well as a serviceable operations interpreter for which users may connect to, extract data, and interact with the network operations model in a globally integrated manner.

Supported Protocols
AutoNOC supports connection, monitoring and management via the following protocols:

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* Variety of Other Derivative of Sockets

Technical Achievements
The following are the primary technical / architectural achievements of the AutoNOC software.

* 2005 - 1st NMS to Handle 1,000,000 Probes at 60 Second Intervals on a Single 64-Bit Server
* 2007/2008 - 1st NMS to to Integrate 10,000,000 Probes Across a Multinational Network on One Live Platform
* 2007/2008 - 1st NMS to Handle Up To 100 Terabytes of Network Mapped Live Historical Data on One Model

Direct verification of these achievements is available by either downloading and setting up the software to test these circumstances, or to qualified individuals who may request a site appointment of a live installation.

Releases
There are two existing, generally available releases of the AutoNOC software:

* AutoNOC 2.5 (Velocity)
* AutoNOC 3.0 (Nadia)

Velocity is the most widely deployed release of AutoNOC. Nadia is the fully distributed grid operations platform.

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