ACTOR: Alarm Correlation and Ticketing for Open ROADM
Tianliang Zhang, Wendell Liu, Balagangadhar G. Bathula, Andrea Fumagalli · 2023
The Open ROADM ecosystem enables greater flexibility in deploying optical networks through centralized SDN management and intelligent service orchestration. However, since the maintenance signaling is yet to be standardized and implemented within each device, it is difficult to identify the root cause of issues and manage the network effectively when faults propagate in the network. To tackle this problem, this paper presents a proof-of-concept implementation of an alarm correlation and ticketing system for the multi-vendor Open ROADM ecosystem. The proposed system uses a graph-based method to identify the root cause of alarms and generate tickets for network operations teams. The results of our laboratory tests demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed system in managing alarms in the multi-vendor Open ROADM ecosystem.