Publication Date

Fall 1996

Degree Type

Master's Project

Degree Name

Master of Science in Engineering (MSE)

Department

General Engineering

First Advisor

Dr. Walter J. Utz., Jr.,

Abstract

Continuous monitoring of multiple hosts on a network is an important task in network administration. There is a wide spread use of networks in corporations; however, there is a serious shortage of skilled network administration personnel. Therefore, it has become very important to involve end-users in routine monitoring tasks to off-load some network administration work. Building tools for end-users imposes additional requirements on system designers that include greater ease of use and extensive help facilities.

This work was conducted to develop a Remote Network Monitoring (RNM) system to be used for monitoring multiple nodes on a network. RNM system demonstrates how very innovative network management and monitoring solutions can be built using commercial, off-the-shelf software technologies.

The RNM system uses a Web browser as the graphical user interface. The same tool used to browse HTML documents can now be used to perform the complex job of constantly monitoring the state of a network.

The RNM system retrieves the monitoring information from the remote systems by processing users’ requests using Remote Procedure Calls. Information like system time, name, and network statistics can be retrieved from the network hosts that are being monitored. The retrieved data is organized as Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) documents on the HTTP server. This information is displayed on users’ screens when requested.

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