Vendetta - A Tool for Flexible Monitoring and Management of Distributed Testbeds

Writing a powerful tool for monitoring and management of a testbed can have a positive effect when doing research on the testbed. Despite this, many testbeds use primitive scripts for data collection, code updates and other basic tasks. We introduce Vendetta, a flexible and powerful platform for monitoring and management of distributed testbeds. It is designed to be relatively easy to adapt to different testbeds by having a modular design, being written in Java and defining much of the testbed-specific behavior in two configuration files. The novelty in comparison with similar tools is the integration of a GUI supporting 30 graphics, flexible monitoring and management into one single tool. We will present the general design of Vendetta and then illustrate how it has been used for monitoring and management of an experimental DHT deployment running on PlanetLab. Experiences from this combination shows that usage of a tool like Vendetta simplifies testbed management and makes it easier to discover and analyze different phenomena.