MNMS, a Media Network Monitoring Services Open Source Framework

This presentation shows how the MNMS open source framework can be used to map the network and how real-time weather maps views from data can be mined in the network using MDNS, SNMP, NMOS and other protocols. User trust in the network is challenged by the complexity of the system. Instead of baseband, physical, peer-to-peer connections (SDI, AES/EBU), the technician has to deal with multiple layers of abstractions such as ethernet connections, VLANS, IP subnets, and multicast flows. Although there are many proprietary UIs giving a simplified view of the network, most of them are statically configured and rely on specific protocols. MNMS (Media Network Monitoring Services) is an open source framework that shows how using easy-to-get information on the network (via SNMP, NMOS, LLDP, and other means and standard IT protocols), a real-time, dynamic view, and protocol agnostic view of the system can be constructed for the user to easily pinpoint problems on the system. We will show real-world applications of MNMS and detail its components as well as a tutorial to get the system up and running from the GitHub repository.