Network Monitor

Abstract

Network Monitor is a network administrator tool which facilitates the administrator to know and manage the network more effectively and efficiently. It also helps save the network users time by helping the user find the available workstation even before entering the network area physically. The motivation which led us to undertake this challenging task was our network administrator/ user problems here at the institute. An issue that needed urgent attention was that of the network clients “workstations” going off line without giving any warning to the administrator. It became a problem for the administrator as well as the network users. This problem has specially been addressed here by our software product. Network Monitor may not be a complete administrator tool but it does ensure employing of a lot of features that facilitates the administrator and the user of a network. We have developed this windows based software with a client and server module. The server module periodically evokes the clients and registers their statuses. In case of a system going off line it warns the administrator of it. The client module checks the windows registry to see if the system is occupied by a user or not (checks log in). a separate display outside the network facilitates the users of the network by allowing them to see which workstation is taken, available, offline or online etc. The server module maintains the log of each workstation and the graphs of their activities can be generated with a single click. To avoid chocking of the total bandwidth a very small time interval has been set for which the application employees the bandwidth periodically. Various Testing and evaluation results conducted on the product are extremely promising.