GroundWork, Inc. (www.gwos.com), the leading Unified Monitoring solution for IT operations management and cloud monitoring, today released GroundWork Net Hub. The new GroundWork Net Hub offers discovery and monitoring for dynamic software defined networks (SDNs).

“Traditional network monitoring methods struggle to work and map well to the dynamic and fluid nature of private clouds and SDNs,” said David Dennis, VP of Business Development and Marketing for GroundWork. “We understand that, and wanted to provide the same API-based monitoring capabilities of SDNs that users expect from monitoring private cloud compute resources.”


GroundWork Net Hub is built off of GroundWork’s popular Cloud Hub code base. And similar to Cloud Hub, GroundWork Net Hub only needs to be configured once. From that point, Net Hub remains in communication with the SDN controller to understand: (1) the configuration of the network, (2) when elements have been added or removed and (3) know their performance characteristics.
Benefits of GroundWork Net Hub:

Monitor OpenDaylight / OpenFlow-based SDN controllers
Native API-based monitoring
Continuous network discovery of new elements
Ability to gather topology, port statistics, flow statistics, packet and byte counts
“Software Defined Networking is one of the most talked-about networking technologies these days,” said Remo Rickli, creator of popular open source monitoring tool NeDi and networking consultant. “With the new protocols used by Software Defined Networking, many network monitoring and management systems will need to be updated to remain fully current and capable.”

Availability: The first version of GroundWork Net Hub will include feeders for Open SDN (Open Daylight/Open Flow), with feeders for Cisco ACI and VMware NSX to follow.

To learn more about Net Hub at a live webinar, visit: http://www.gwos.com/nethub