Abstract
A wide range of public domain and commercial tools currently exist to help network administrator manage networks. However, most of there are real-time analysis tools, and so provide more support in monitoring network activity. A very small subset of these tools assist the network administrator and/or designer in reconfiguring the network as well as identifying optimal resource allocations. The goal of the tool described in this paper is to help in designing and/or reconfiguring of networks for optimal allocation of both clients and file-systems in a distributed computing environment. This paper describes NetAnalyzer, a retrospective network analysis tool running under SUN UNIX (4.1.3) Operating System. The tool uses a utility to passively collect statistics on an Ethernet-based distributed computing environment by operating the interface in a promiscuous mode. The tool allows the user to obtain statistics on the Ethernet utilization, analyze the traffic between the subnetworks of a partitioned network, and also provides comprehensive knowledge of how the various file-system partitions on every server are used in the system. This information would assist the network administrator in reconfiguring the network to meet its requirements in a cost-effective manner.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 77-83 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | International Journal of Computers and Applications |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| State | Published - 1997 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Hardware and Architecture
- Computer Science Applications
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design