22nd SIG-NOC meeting - Prague, Czechia

13:00 - 14:00

14:00 - 14:15

Welcome - CESNET - TBD

14:15 - 14:45

Flow Monitoring and Security Tools at CESNET - Petr Hanousek

14:45 - 15:15

Flow analysis and monitoring detection - Carl Holt (Progress)

Carl and his colleague Ed have been working with GÉANT's OC for over 10 years assisting with flow analysis and monitoring with tools such as flowmon. Carl will deliver a talk about the challenges they have overcome and how collaboration has delivered new tooling and expansion of existing tools.

Flash talks: 

• Monitoring and Performance for the EuroHPC Network - Will Barber, GÉANT
• TBD

Marking scientific traffic - Tim Chown, JISC

This presentation will give insights about Scitags, an initiative promoting identification of the science domains and their high-level activities at the network level. It provides an open system using open source technologies that helps R&E providers in understanding how their networks are being utilised and provides feedback to the scientific community on what network flows and patterns are critical for their computing. 

Network Monitoring and data sharing in the Nordic countries - Jonny Lundin, SUNET

End of Day 1

Group dinner

09:15 - 09:45

EuroHPC Update on Hyperconnectivity - Sebastiano Buscaglione, GÉANT

Crisis Management Exercise 2026 - Joze Hank (ARNES) and Charlie van Genuchten (SURF)

The talk will give some details about the exercise that will take place in March 2026, where NRENs will be able to really test their crisis procedures in their own organisations, plus how they work together with NRENs in that crisis. The session will be also an way to get input from SIG-NOC on both the kind of scenario and the communication lines the exercise should try to trigger.

Flash Talks:

• CESNET NOC - Petr Hanousek

• Mobile App Network trAffic Nutrition fActs (MANANA)  - Giuseppe Acteo, UNINA

  End-users of mobile applications hardly know which enterprises and countries are involved in their online activities, and the implied rights and risks. Researchers and regulators need actual usage data to verify data sovereignty compliance. MANANA aims at providing the former with understandable characterisations of infrastructure usage, and the latter with a monitoring system of actual mobile apps usage. The user will be enabled to choose among similar apps and report her data exposure (providing visibility to authorities). The app and the collection server will be released as open-source. MANANA is a project from the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, funded by GÉANT's Innovation Programme. 

Open discussion - NOC on Cloud (Using M365 from an operational point of view) - Jonny Lundin, SUNET

What are the challenges of using the cloud for the NOCs?  How far have we gone for network monitoring? What happens when the cloud does not work? These and other questions will be the seed for an open discussion with the aim to share information, ideas and expectations around the "NOCs on cloud".

GEANT's operational Experiences Using GAP (Automation system) to deploy services and new router platforms - Will Barber, GÉANT

This talk will give details on GEANT's experiences using GAP to migrate platforms and deploy services, including problems we faced, screen shots of the tool and how it will be used to push base config and update base config and add/delete services. The presentation will also include workarounds used to overcome some deficiencies.