[ Networking observability in System's in 'Digital Textile Mills'. ]

I spent my professional life in various Textile Mills in India from 1957 till 2003 and retired as MD of a textile mill.

This blog of mine has; all my achievements and incidents of family life and as a proud father, it gives me immense pleasures to record my son's achievements in USA in his chosen professional path as'Fellow' at CISCO where he invented many patents.

As'Chief Scientist' in CUMULUS Networks which was a Startup, he thought and he planed his future as he saw his work at CUMULUS had taken, a place in Networking and his decision to quit CUMULUS was not accepted and his company a Startup "Stardust Enterprises" got delayed a bit but is now in top gear.

He has now CEO of his owncompany "Stardust Systems" a firm in NETWORKING Management,SF, USA.

He is also author of 3 Books on Networking. 

The Textile Industry of the world has made tremendous in roads in processing of fiber to fashion wearable designer fabrics to industry needs and technical textiles. The developed countries are in need of all sorts of textiles for use in defense needs. Complete processing from fibers to processing including packing and other needs of consumers have led to technology and innovation to complete automation in every textile mills.

I am trying to find out how a textile industry of the future will be and weather there will be "Networking Engineers" in these Textile Mills.

Once this Industry was called the "Mother of all Industry".

Picture of my son, Dinesh G Dutt, CEO, Stardust Systems. USA.

"SuzieQ"- Being one consulting wing of Stardust Systems, "Project".

What is SuzieQ

SuzieQ

SuzieQ is the first open source, multi-vendor network observability 
platform application. It is both a framework and an application using that 
framework, that is focused on improving your understanding of your network. 
We define observability as the ability of a system to answer either trivial 
or complex questions that you pose as you go about operating your network. 
How easily you can answer your questions is a measure of how good the system's 
observability is. A good observable system goes well beyond what is normally 
considered monitoring and alerting. SuzieQ is primarily meant for use by 
network engineers and designers.

SuzieQ:

    Gathers data using an agentless model using either SSH or REST API as the 
    transport. We gather data from routers, bridges and Linux servers. 
    We support gathering data from Arista EOS, Cisco's IOS, IOS-XE, and IOS-
    XR platforms, Cisco's NXOS, Cumulus Linux, Juniper's Junos(QFX, EX, MX 
    and SRX platforms and Evolved OS), Palo Alto's Panos (version 8.0 or higher) 
    and SoNIC devices, besides Linux servers.
    Normalizes the data into a vendor-agnostic format.
    Stores all data in files using the popular big data format, Parquet.
    Exposes via a CLI, GUI, a REST API, or via Python the analysis of 
    the data gathered using easy, intuitive commands. The output 
    can be rendered in various formats from plain text to JSON, 
    CSV and Markdown.

With the applications that we build on top of the framework we want 
to demonstrate a different and more systematic approach to thinking 
about networks. We want to show how useful it is to think of your 
network holistically.

You can join the conversation via slack. Send email to Dinesh with 
the email address to send the Slack invitation to.

We're also looking for collaborators to help us make SuzieQ a 
truly useful multi-vendor, open source platform for observing all 
aspects of networking. Please read the collaboration document for 
ideas on how you can help.

SuzieQ Architecture

Picture - courtesy-https://www.stardustsystems.net/suzieq/

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