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Monday, December 23, 2002
North Carolina State University: Network Agents Plot the Path of Least Resistance, Syllabus
Most major U.S. universities manage enough Internet traffic to overwhelm the small squad of technicians usually on hand to oversee their networks. Like many, the three-person Web services team at North Carolina State University was becoming concerned about how to control the increasing number of Web sites, applications, and Web services, from online quizzing, testing and online course catalogues, sprouting at the school. Using software agents, the system monitors the university's infrastructure, including its Web servers, application servers, network devices and databases. These components are grouped in a logical service model, a representation of the physical infrastructure of the network as Web services are delivered. Through this service model, a diagnosis of the health of any particular Web service, all the way down to the individual component, can be made. It also takes real-time action to minimize the impact to the user or transaction while problems are identified and resolved quickly.
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