Architecture
Three Types of Sites
- Remote Sites - need only to respond to ping packets
- Collecting Sites
- Collecting Data: Perl Script Pings Nodes, Records Data in common documented format
- Serving Data: CGI/Perl Script makes Data Available to Analysis Sites
- WWW CGI tools make reports available
- Analysis Sites
- Retrieving Data: Perl Script Retrieves Data from Collecting Sites
- Analysis: SAS Program Analyzes Data and Generates Graphs
- Reports: WWW Form Makes Customized Reports Available
Notes:
Retrieval of data takes ~ 0.2 sec of cpu time