Internetworking
Subtitle: automated local and global network monitoring
By:  Evan B. Edwards
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School; Available from National Technical Information Service
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Monterey, Calif; Springfield, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Description: Commercial applications for network monitoring are expensive and therefore not widely      available to the majority of network users. Public domain network monitoring software is      generally effective in the hands of an expert but difficult to use by the common user because of      its command line driven interface. It is a basic tenet of this thesis that network performance      and security can be improved if all network users had easy-to-use network monitoring tools      available and were encouraged to use them frequently. In this thesis, ping, traceroute, and      nslookup were integrated with the familiar user-friendly interface provided by the World Wide      Web (WWW) and HyperText Markup Language (HTML) in both automated and interactive      versions. These easy to use monitoring tools were evaluated in several working environments      at the Naval Postgraduate School and the Monterey Bay Area Network. ping, trace route and      nslookup can now be performed in one-sixth of the time previously required for an expert      user. Current network status is now readily available and can be validated at any time through      the use of the applications developed in this thesis.
Notes: Thesis advisor(s): D.P. Brutzman,  Lou Stevens.

"September 1996."

Thesis (M.S. in Computer Science) Naval Postgraduate School, September 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-231).

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