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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
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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 ICFA Santa Fe Meeting
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 ICFA Santa Fe Meeting
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 ICFA Santa Fe Meeting