Enforcing model network citizenship by remote administration

ABSTRACT

Higher education institutions have been striving to improve services and keep pace with new technologies. In a Higher education environment, the users utilize the available computing resources 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Although we cannot have the 24 by 7 uptime guaranteed, due to issues like budget constraints, we could certainly reduce the downtime by deploying a cost effective open source network monitoring solution such as Big Brother. Commercially available network management systems are complex and expensive systems with a steep learning curve associated with them. Network management systems are popular in organizations that maintain large and complex networks. Therefore, we enhanced Big Brother solution by extending its service to support SNMP based devices.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
      C.2.3 Network Operations
          Subjects: Network monitoring

Additional Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
      C.2.3 Network Operations
          Subjects: Network management

General Terms:
Management, Measurement, Performance, Reliability, Verification

Keywords:
RMON, SNMP, big brother, monitoring, network management, network monitoring, system monitoring, system reliability