ESnet Network Monitoring Task Force (NMTF)

Chairperson: Les Cottrell, SLAC. Last Update: June 12, 1997

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Page Contents
Charter - Goals & Activities Focus Group Meetings Surveys Presentations etc. Further Information	Recent Additions Apr 25 '97 Notes & Attendees for San Diego NMTF mtg Apr-97 Mar 18 '97 Agenda for San Diego NMTF mtg Apr-97 Nov 14 '96 Internet End-to-End Monitoring Nov 5 '96 Internet Monitoring & NMTF Futures Nov 5 '96 Report from the Network Monitoring Focus Group Oct 17 '96 Agenda for Princeton NMTF Mtg Oct 28 '96

• Charter
  • Goals
  • Activities
• Membership and Mailing List.
• The ESnet NMTF Home Page with information on Mailing lists etc.
• Network Monitoring Focus Group is a subset of the NMTF consisting of people at BNL, HEPNRC, ORNL and SLAC actively working on Internet monitoring for ESCC sites.
• Meetings:
  • NMTF Sept 1995 meeting at CEBAF
  • NMTF May 1996 meeting at Berkeley
  • Report to ESCC on the State of the Internet summarizes the results of the ESSC Working Group on the State of the Internet, and the NMTF meeting of May 1996.
  • ESCC/DCCC meeting, Princeton, Oct 28-Nov 1, 1996.
  • Tentative Agenda for NMTF meeting, Oct-96 at Princeton, October 28, 1996.
  • Notes from the NMTF meeting San Diego April 1997, the agenda and the list of attendees.
• Surveys (October 1995):

  Survey Topic	Survey Form	Results
  Why Sites Monitor & What they Monitor	Form	Tabular Results Reasons for Monitoring What do we monitor today What are the most important things to Monitor
  Network Monitorable Devices at ESnet Sites	Form	Tabular Results Summary
  Network Protocols in Use at ESnet Sires	Form	Tabular Results Summary
  Network Monitoring Tools in Use at ESnet Sites	Form	Tabular Results Summary

• Presentations, Papers etc. (latest first):
  • Wide Area Network Connectivity, Les Cottrell, presented at the SLAC Users Organization meeting, SLAC May 1997.
  • Internet End-to-end Performance Monitoring, Les Cottrell, Dave Martin & Connie Logg, presented at the ISMA meeting San Diego, May 1997.
  • Report on CHEP97/ICFA Mini Workshop on HEP and the Internet, Les Cottrell, presented at the ESCC meeting San Diego, Apr 1997.
  • Internet End-to-end Monitoring and Performance: Measuring, Analysis & Reports and Uses, Les Cottrell, David Martin & Connie Logg, ESCC Meeting Apr. 1997, San Diego.
  • What is the Internet Doing for and to You?, R. L. A. Cottrell, C. A. Logg, D. E. Martin, CHEP97, April 1997.
  • Internet Performance and Reliability Measurements for the High Energy Physics Community, D. E. Martin, R. L. Cottrell, C. A. Logg, Conference on Computing in High Energy Physics, Apr. 7-11, 1997, Berlin, Germany.  postscript and PDF [14 pages]
  • Current State of the Internet and Network Monitoring, Les Cottrell & W. P. Lidinsky, for the ESnet Progress Report, Feb 1997.
  • Network Monitoring Efforts, W. Toki & W. P. Lidinsky, Presentation to the ESSC, Jan 7, 1997, Washington DC.
  • End-to-End Internet Ping Performance, Les Cottrell. Charley Granieri, Mike Wendling, & Connie Logg, Presentation to CCIRN Meeting San Jose Dec-12, 1997.
  • End-to-End Internet Performance, Les Cottrell, C. Granieri & C. Logg, presentation to EOWG/FEPG Meeting, DOE/Germantown, Nov 14, 1996.
  • Internet Monitoring & NMTF Futures, Les Cottrell, ESCC Meeting, Oct 29, 1996, Princeton, NJ.
  • Report from the Network Monitoring Focus Group, D.E. Martin, Energy Sciences Network Site Coordinating Committee Meeting, Oct 29, 1996, Princeton, NJ,   postscript and PDF
  • Report on ESCC Network Monitoring Efforts Les Cottrell, Connie Logg, Bill Lidinsky, Dave Martin, and Gary Haney, presentation to the EOWG/FEPG Sep-30-96 in Postscript and PDF formats [13 pages].
  • Internet Monitoring, W. P. Lidinsky. Energy Sciences Network Steering Committee Meeting, Sep. 11-13, 1996, Fort Collins, CO.  postscript and PDF [13 pages]
  • Internet Gridlock and WAN Monitoring, Les Cottrell, invited talk given at the Babar Collaboration Meeting, Dresden, July 1996.
  • Network Monitoring for the LAN and WAN, invited talk given at ORNL, June 24, 1996 by Les Cottrell.
  • Public Domain Tools for Network Management, Gary Haney, Presented at the DOE Telecomm '96, May 1996.
  • Distributed Computing Environment Monitoring and User Expectations Les Cottrell & Connie Logg, SLAC-PUB-95-7008, Contributed to the International Conference on Computing In High Energy Physics '95 (CHEP95) Conference, Rio De Janiero, Brazil September 18-22, 1995. See also the html and Postscript transparencies.
  • Network Monitoring Les Cottrell & Connie Logg, presented at the 1995 DOE Telecommunications Conference, Portland Oregon, July 1995.
• Further Information

  Network Organizations	ISPs & NSPs
  Network monitoring tools	Other Monitoring Efforts
  Networking at ESnet and HENP Sites	ISMA Meeting, San Diego May 1997.

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