Introduction

The term network monitoring describes the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing components and that notifies the network administrator (via email, SMS or other alarms) in case of outages. It is a subset of the functions involved in network management.

Notes

1. CSE used to be a client of CIT OSS's network monitoring application, Spectrum.
2. CIT's network monitoring support and Spectrum proved inadequate for our purposes.
3. CSE implemented its own network monitoring infrastructure using open source net-snmp tools.

References

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_monitoring
2. UBIT NCS Network Service Metrics
3. UBIT NCS Network Traceroute
4. UBIT NCS MAC to IP Address Mappings
5. UBIT NCS Subnet Sweep
6. UBIT NCS SNMP Check
7. UBIT NCS Simple Network Monitoring Protocol Documentation
8. Hubble: Monitoring Internet Reachability in Real-Time