Performance Monitoring of Network Systems

The book "Performance Monitoring of Network Systems" offers a comprehensive analysis and innovative approaches to monitoring network performance and efficiency. It highlights the challenges that arise when monitoring complex network structures and notes that traditional methods such as the round-robin ping service and parallel monitoring with non-blocking input/output operations (I/O) are suitable for smaller networks but not for larger, more complex infrastructures. The author, Anand Sreenivasan, presents a novel architecture and toolkit that enables the configuration of tests for active, passive, and end-to-end measurements using Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) objects. Real-time analysis of SNMP responses and the provision of a network-oriented database solution are central elements of this work. Additionally, an API with JSON output for frontend visualization is offered, allowing access to real-time information such as time series graphs and intensity maps.