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Monitoring

The French academic research in network monitoring started with the METROPOLIS project. This project helps to structure this research community whose members are still working together, in particular because of the measurement and monitoring platform, deployed in the framework of METROPOLIS, and which is still working.

The French academic platform is located at the RENATER edges, RENATER being the French network for education and research. It consists of 3 kinds of monitoring / measurement equipments:

- DAG boxes for microscopic passive monitoring

- QoSMOS boxes for macroscopic passive monitoring and applicative classification

- RIPE TTM boxes for active measurements. These boxes also run NIMI and PANDORA, as well as MetroMI, a software specifically developed in the framework on the Metropolis project

For storing and analyzing the traffic traces, we use:

2 Poweredge 4600 servers

Bi-Pentium Xeon 2.4 Ghz

RAM: 8 GB

HD: 8 x 73 GB

Archivage : DLT1

1 PowerEdge 6650 server

Bi-Pentium Xeon 2.2 GHz

RAM: 8 GB

HD: 5 x 146 GB

1 PowerVault PV220S SAN

HD: 14 x 300 GB

Traffic characterization and analysis tool:

We have been working in METROPOLIS, and we are still working on developing a tool for characterizing and analyzing Internet traffic. This tool is: Zoo.

Traffic traces:

Traffic traces (for authorized members only) are available here.

Contact : Philippe OWEZARSKI
LAAS-CNRS
7, avenue du Colonel Roche
31077 Toulouse Cedex 4
France