Enforcing model network citizenship by remote administration

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. Categories and Subject Descriptors: C.2.3 [Computer-Communication Networks]: Network Operations - Network monitoring, Network Management General Terms: Management, Measurement, Reliability, Performance, Verification.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: SIGUCCS
• Authors: Prasun Gupta, Mahmoud Pegah
• Keywords: Big Brother, Information Management, Network Management Systems, Network Monitoring, SIGUCCS 2003