CNaaS

  Campus Network-as-a-Service (CNaaS) is a service within SUNET, providing a fully managed service for LAN/WLAN networks at university campuses.

CNaaS Documentation

There are three parts to the documentation of CNaaS at SUNET:

  1. Product documentation - Documents the different products we use. For NMS and NAC documentation, see below. (Public access)
  2. Service documentation - Documents the SUNET specific processes. (Mixed public/private access)
  3. Customer documentation - Documents specific details of one customer implementation (Private access)

CNaaS - NMS

As part of this project a network management system called CNaaS-NMS is being developed to automate the management of the campus networks, the software is open source and can be used by anyone outside of SUNET as well. The main focus areas are zero-touch provisioning, device configuration management and firmware upgrades.

Some presentations and demo videos of CNaaS-NMS can be found on the product documentation page

Source code available at Github

API Documentation

Dev / test environment setup

Installation

Initial Software Architecture document from 2019 (things might have changed since then)


CNaas - NAC (Network Access Control)

In order to provide end users with an authentication mechanism CNaaS NAC was invented. It relies on freeradius (https://freeradius.org) for user authentication using 802.1X with MAB as fallback for clients not being able to use 802.1X.

Source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/sunet/cnaas-nac

Freeradius can either be integrated towards the existing user database (LDAP, Active Directory etc) or use Postgres to store credentials. CNaaS NAC provides both an API and a web interface to handle users if Postgres is chosen for storing credentials.



CNaaS NAC API reference.


CNaaS NAC Web interface









Activity

Service Documentation (Public)
28.11.2024 16:35 CET Johan Marcusson
Arista RADIUS attributes
21.11.2024 13:17 CET Johan Marcusson
Hardware options
21.11.2024 13:15 CET Johan Marcusson
NMS API Howto
18.10.2024 11:31 CEST Johan Marcusson
NI Campus Structured cabling import
16.10.2024 14:36 CEST Johan Marcusson
Product Documentation
14.10.2024 16:51 CEST Johan Marcusson
NI How-to guide
11.10.2024 10:40 CEST Johan Marcusson
Inventory management
11.10.2024 10:39 CEST Johan Marcusson
CNaaS Tools
11.10.2024 10:11 CEST Johan Marcusson
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