Aviz details ONES 2.0 for multi-vendor SONiC support
Aviz released ONES 2.0, an update to its Open Networking Enterprise Suite that extends SONiC support with improved observability, orchestration, rule-based alerts and compliance controls, features relevant to IT operations and security teams.
Research overview
ONES began as a tool to ease migrations to SONiC and has been developed to address multi-vendor and mixed-NOS environments. The 2.0 release expands monitoring and management capabilities aimed at operational and security requirements in data-center fabrics.
Key findings
ONES 2.0 centralizes topology and protocol visibility, adds time-series metrics and firmware detail views, and introduces a watcher rules engine with external notification links. The release also bundles YAML-based orchestration, incremental configuration updates, and UI-driven backup and restore functions.
Technical breakdown
The platform provides an advanced topology view that maps underlay, overlay and RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) traffic, plus detailed protocol health, capacity metrics and expanded device/interface counters. The UI adds inventory, analytics and software pages, Secure Shell (SSH) quick access to devices, and a firmware details widget for software visibility.
Product update
Orchestration features include YAML templates that support Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), L2/L3 MC-LAG and EVPN multi-homing, along with incremental L2VNI/L3VNI updates. Backup and restore operations are available through the interface to manage configuration state and recoveries.
Operational impact
Operational teams can use watcher rules to set threshold alerts on devices and interfaces and route notifications to Slack or Zendesk for incident workflows. Hybrid deployments with SONiC and non-SONiC devices are supported through syslog extraction, console access, firmware tracking and inventory export functions.
Leadership perspective
Security and compliance controls in 2.0 include scheduled security scans, certificate management, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), LDAP integration and mutual Transport Layer Security (TLS) for authenticated communications. Network Performance Monitoring (NPMO) supports packet loss and latency measurements with ICMP or Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) endpoints and a Command-Line Interface (CLI) backend for data collection.
This “Blog Signals brief” summarizes the vendor blog: ONES 2.0 adds observability, orchestration, alerting and compliance features for multi-vendor SONiC environments, and this Blog Signals brief is a fact-based summary of the vendor blog.