A network management tool for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga using simple network management protocol

This research is an attempt to develop a general purpose network management tool, using the Simple Network Management Protocol, for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC). This tool is intended to be a non vendor specific application that runs on very low cost hardware, yet provides the primary functions one needs to monitor the health of network devices such as routers and bridges. The Simple Network Management Protocol was chosen because it is an industry standard. It has fewer operators than other network management protocols; therefore, it is simpler to implement. Because of the type of network that is used at UTC, the Ethernet interface was chosen for testing the application. As a result of the research, an analysis was done on the Simple Network Management Protocol, and a set of network I/O routines was developed which work with any Ethernet interface for a PC. The I/O functions were written in Borland C++ version 3.0 for PCs. A few I/O routines were adapted from previous research for interfacing with the Clarkson packet driver. The final package was submitted to the Center of Excellence for Computer Application (CECA) to be used as a network management tool at the UTC campus.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Author dc:creator

• Shojaie, Ghasem

Contributors dc:contributor

• Nixon, Fred
• Thompson, Jack; Kizza, Joseph; Walters, Terry
• College of Engineering and Computer Science

• Simple Network Management Protocol (Computer network protocol)
• Network analysis (Planning)

Licence

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English, eng

Identifier

LB2369.2 .S49 1993

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-2117