summary of network monitoring working group
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Summary of Network Monitoring Working Group. Mission of Group: Obtain as uniform picture as possible of the present performance of the connectivity used by the ICFA community Using ping metrics to make end-to-end performance measurements - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Summary of Network Monitoring Working Group
Mission of Group:» Obtain as uniform picture as possible of the present
performance of the connectivity used by the ICFA community
Using ping metrics to make end-to-end performance measurements
Have 12 sites in 7 countries collecting data on 400 link pairs, using common documented tools & data format
Data being gathered and archived at HEPNRC Have some common tools for analyzing and presenting
the data via the Web
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Top Two Major Issues
How Do We Cope With All the Data (collecting 200MBytes/month)» Group By Interest, Experiment, Country, Type, AS ...» Ranking Quality of Links» Categorise Links by Type of Usable Service (mail, FTP,
WWW, etc.)» Weather Maps, Weekly Summary
Need Additional Analysis Effort (to develop tools) and more Collecting Sites» Efforts:
Medium Amount of Effort to Develop Analysis Reports
Small Amount of Error to run a Collection Site
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Other Major Issues
Lobbying for Change / Building Relationship with ISPs» Rely on Service Providers to Resolve Problems?» Problem with C in A->B->C->D->E? Should A contact C?» ICFA May Be Able to Help
New Tool Development» Port SLAC Report Generation to Support Multiple Source» Port TracePing to PERL» HTTP, FTP transfers