Network Performance Advisor

September 2005


Tanya Lattner Steve Engelhardt John Estabrook Jim Ferguson Steven Ko Chris Chan		Mitch Kutzko Jianzhong Liu Dimitrius Psaltoulis Nat Thompson Charles Yang

Introduction

The NLANR Network Performance Advisor is an easily customizable framework that provides a single application to integrate the measurement, analysis, and display of network performance statistics.

The Advisor enables the writing of the analysis and display portions by providing a platform to allow easy integration of any number of network diagnostic tools, combined with the ability to uniformly query the results of these tools. It contains a network performance analysis tool and a network debugging utility designed for network engineers, and knowledge of a number of diagnostic tools, including ping, ifconfig, Iperf, and the Web100 suite of tools. Due to the Advisor's design, new analysis and display tools are easy to write, and new network diagnostic tools are straightforward to integrate.

The Advisor distinguishes itself by its ability to display and analyze an extremely broad set of network statistics, due to its ability to integrate any network diagnostic tool.

Design Document

The Advisor is made up of a number of component pieces, such as the data collector, historical archiver, data analysis engine, and the gui. Detailed design information is available here.

Network Performance Advisor Design Version 2.0 {HTML version}
Network Performance Advisor Design Version 2.0 {225K Postscript file)

Tutorial

The Advisor Tutorial walks the new Advisor user through installation, setup, and initial use of the 2.1 release of the Advisor, as well as explaining how to check the source tree out via anonymous CVS.

User Guide

The Advisor User Guide provides more detailed and technical information about the Advisor, including an explanation of the underlying Schema and details on adding your own bundles to the Advisor.

Download

The 2.1 release of the NLANR Network Performance Advisor is available for download. Please try it out, add new bundles, and give us feedback!

Advisor 2.1 Source, released September 19, 2005.

Advisor 2.0 Binary, released March 4, 2005.
Advisor 2.0 Source, released March 4, 2005.

Win-Advisor 2.1, released December 30, 2005.

Additional Release Information

[README] [CHANGES] [CREDITS] [LICENSE]

Advisor CVS

You can view the Advisor CVS repository online!

If you want the latest from CVS, all you need to do is check it out from CVS as follows:

cd where-you-want-advisor-to-live
cvs -d :pserver:anon@tygra.ncsa.uiuc.edu:/home/cvsroot co advisor

This will create an 'advisor' directory in the current directory and fully populate it with the Advisor source code.

Bugs

Please submit all bugs to our Bugzilla Bug Tracking System.

Presentations

Advisor Status at SC2004, November 10, 2004 (ppt file)
I2 Fall Members Meeting Poster (ppt file)
Adivsor Status for Joint Techs, July 20, 2004 (ppt file)
Advisor Status for Joint Techs, January 25, 2004 (ppt file)
SC2003 Poster, November 18, 2003 (499K Powerpoint file)
I2 Advisor Status, October 10, 2003 (226K Powerpoint file)

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