Data Center and Central Office Monitoring

Penetration Testing Data Center Monitoring Solution

Customer has developed a monitoring solution for their data center as they were experiencing difficulties due to the presence of many different hardware variants. End to end testing including non-functional testing like performance and vulnerability is complex and time consuming. The Customer was looking for automation of testing through automation.

Solution Description

Gadgeon came up with a SOM-based solution with a homogenous HW/SW platform to cater to all variants of the customer’s product. Monitoring and alarm handling system
Gadgeon Test Automation Framework (GTF) was leveraged to automation of test cases and their convergence spanning across interfaces:- Web-UI , CLI , TL1, and SNMP
Protocols Used : SNMP, TL1, TABS, TBOS, DCM ,HTTPS
Tools Used : GTF based on Robot framework, Python, Selenium, TestRail, Jira, and Jenkins,
Penetration Testing tools: OWASP and OpenVAS

Outcome and Benefits Delivered

Reduced the testing effort and schedule through automation of above 95% of regression, reliability, performance, and vulnerability test cases.
Achieved 85 % of test coverage for functional test cases
Achieved 100 % test coverage on regression test cases
Achieved 90% test coverage for non-functional testing cases including its regression

WHAT DID GADGEON DO?	PLATFORMS/TOOLS/TECHNOLOGIES USED
Defined Test Strategy for the complete system including different HW platforms with multiple communication protocols	Requirement Gathering & Analysis, defined functional test cases and uses case based on end to end test scenarios
Simulated high frequency polling conditions to stress the system	Python based custom stress scripts interfacing USB controlled relay
Designed Automation framework which can validate supporting protocols - SNMP, TL1, DCP/F, TBOS, TABS and DCM	NetSNMP Client for validating SNMP Commands and Operations Designed custom socket module for validating TL1, DCP/F, TBOS, TABS and DCM protocols Achieved 85 % of test coverage for functional test cases Achieved 100 % test coverage on regression test cases
Automated long duration stress test scripts for monitoring system health	Python based scripts monitoring CPU Utilization , Memory usage and communication interface stability
Automation framework supporting test evidence and detailed logs including screen shots for ease of debugging.	TestRail , Python, Appium , Selenium webdriver and Robot Framework
Security / Vulnerability testing	Owasp, OpenVAS, NMAP
Implemented Continuous Integration process as part of development and testing phases	Jenkins, Git, Robot Framework