LISA 2000 Abstract
ND: A Comprehensive Network Administration and Analysis Tool
Ellen L. Mitchell, Eric Nelson, & David K. Hess, Texas A&M University
Abstract
ND is a software tool developed by the Computing and Information
Services Network Group at Texas A&M University (TAMU) to aid in the
engineering and operation of the campus network. This tool was
developed in response to the tremendous growth of the TAMU campus
network over the last ten years. ND is designed to provide high-level
application functionality while retaining the power and flexibility of
a low level tool. It integrates remote network device analysis (via
SNMP) with network defining databases (via SQL). ND is written in
Python [1] and contains custom modules for interaction with SNMP and
MySQL [2].
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