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Network Reports. William Gahr. The Task. Write code to generate reports about various network characteristics. Make data about the current day, past week and past month easily accessible. Account for future incorporation to automated weekly e-mail. Challenges.
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Network Reports William Gahr
The Task • Write code to generate reports about various network characteristics. • Make data about the current day, past week and past month easily accessible. • Account for future incorporation to automated weekly e-mail.
Challenges • Huge amount of data. Approximately 50Mb of plain text MIB data logged each day. • Inconsistencies in log layout and format. Occasionally changes in the log format and anomalies in the log files occur. • Difficult to verify results.
Results • Fully functional page for queries about network outages. • Mostly functional page for queries about network utilization, measured in both MBps and % of link speed.
Plans • Add features to query page. • Decrease time required to parse MIB log files. • Write code for other types of reports. • Analyze results of existing reports. • Generate a concise weekly e-mail of interesting information.