1. A method to detect, diagnose, and mitigate issues in a network, the method comprising: receiving Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) data related to the network, the OAM data related to current operation of the network; receiving external data related to the network, the external data describing events related to any one or more of construction, weather, natural disasters, and planned outages; instantiating a rule engine to evaluate one or more rules based on any one of the OAM data, an event, policy, and an anomaly; performing one or more actions based on the evaluating the one or more rules; and analyzing the external data to determine a relationship between the events and network elements in the network, wherein the relationship comprises any one or more of distance, amount of time the event exists, a number of events in a shared area, reputation of an event based on historical data, and a magnitude of collateral damage an event may cause to generate an associated risk level.
1. A method to detect, diagnose, and mitigate issues in a network, the method comprising: receiving Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) data related to the network, the OAM data related to current operation of the network; receiving external data related to the network, the external data describing events related to any one or more of construction, weather, natural disasters, and planned outages; instantiating a rule engine to evaluate one or more rules based on any one of the OAM data, an event, policy, and an anomaly; performing one or more actions based on the evaluating the one or more rules; and analyzing the external data to determine a relationship between the events and network elements in the network, wherein the relationship comprises any one or more of distance, amount of time the event exists, a number of events in a shared area, reputation of an event based on historical data, and a magnitude of collateral damage an event may cause to generate an associated risk level. 8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more actions comprise any of generation of severity ticket intimating network management personnel of an underlying systemic fault in network, invocating of other Software Defined Networking applications to optimize network, and triggering a new rule to operate.