OFCnetLLM: Large Language Model for Network Monitoring and Alertness
This work addresses network management efficiency and security for organizations with large-scale infrastructure, but it appears incremental as it applies existing LLM methods to a specific domain.
The paper tackles the challenge of managing large network monitoring databases by developing OFCnetLLM, a large language model-based system for network monitoring and alertness, demonstrating its application in the OFC conference network with early results.
The rapid evolution of network infrastructure is bringing new challenges and opportunities for efficient network management, optimization, and security. With very large monitoring databases becoming expensive to explore, the use of AI and Generative AI can help reduce costs of managing these datasets. This paper explores the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) to revolutionize network monitoring management by addressing the limitations of query finding and pattern analysis. We leverage LLMs to enhance anomaly detection, automate root-cause analysis, and automate incident analysis to build a well-monitored network management team using AI. Through a real-world example of developing our own OFCNetLLM, based on the open-source LLM model, we demonstrate practical applications of OFCnetLLM in the OFC conference network. Our model is developed as a multi-agent approach and is still evolving, and we present early results here.