Committee Chair

Nixon, Fred

Committee Member

Thompson, Jack; Kizza, Joseph; Walters, Terry

Department

Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering

College

College of Engineering and Computer Science

Publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Place of Publication

Chattanooga (Tenn.)

Abstract

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.

Acknowledgments

I would like to thank Dr. Fred Nixon for his help, and encouragement, both with this thesis and with the courses I have taken from him. I would like to thank Dr. Jack Thompson, Dr. Joseph Kizza and Dr. Terry Walters for serving on my committee, and Mr. Art Hagood for his encouragement, help, and understanding during this thesis.

Degree

M. S.; A thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Science.

Date

8-1993

Subject

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

Location

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga--Computer network resources

Discipline

OS and Networks

Document Type

Masters theses

DCMI Type

Text

Extent

ix, 283 leaves

Language

English

Call Number

LB2369.2 .S49 1993

Rights

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