1. Network Monitor Project in systems programming Winter 2008 Students : Vitaly Zakharenko & Alex Tikh Supervisor : Isask'har (Zigi) Walter Software Systems Lab Department of Electrical Engineering Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

2. Introduction Modern corporate networks often contain large number of local networks, which need to be monitored from a single location. The latter is often difficult due to security and accessibility restrictions between distinct LANs. We propose monitoring without passwords and special permissions.

3. Project Description The system consists of multiple lightweight agents and a single server application. The system consists of multiple lightweight agents and a single server application.

4. Server functionality collects and stores measurement results sent by agents and provides statistics. maintains database records of agents, monitored hosts and host state measurements performed by agents. remotely configures the functionality of agents. monitors state of the agents.

5. Agent functionality performs network measurements and communicates results to the server. allows the server to get & set settings defining the measurement functionality and the scheduling scheme of the measurements.

6. Topics Covered C# and.NET Framework.NET Remoting and Sockets MS SQL Server ADO.NET and strongly-typed DataSet SNMP, ICMP, HTTP protocols Serialization, formatters, streams etc. Using registry, WMI, DNS etc.