[Cu-wireless] Information System

[Joe Pickert]

Just out of curiosity, is there a reason existing tools
were rejected for this? 

For instance, Nagios Network Monitor, http://www.nagios.org/.
And there are others of course.

Joe

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Bryan Cribbs wrote:

> Some additional comments on what Wendy and I discussed:
> 
> * Wendy Edwards <wedwards at uiuc.edu> :
> > Essentially, we'd propose a server that aggregated information.
> > At this point, a single server would probably be adequate for
> > our community, but it would be possible to have more than one.  
> 
> The idea of having a centralized server to log the data is
> actually optional (as I was conceiving the system, more below).
> 
> > Nodes would periodically send information about traffic and
> > connectivity upstream to the aggregate server, which could then
> > be queried by clients.  
> 
> I think that the wireless stations will not actively send out
> this data, rather they will run a lightweight daemon that would
> provide data only on request.  It will be up to the visualization
> agent to request the data.
> 
> An end user could then run the visualization agent on their own
> computer, requesting data only from their local router, which
> allow them to visualize the network from a 'local perspective'.
> 
> The aggregation server described above would be an optional third
> component.
> 
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