title: Standards-based network monitoring for the grid.
abstract: As large grid infrastructures, such as Enabling Grids for E-sciencE, mature, they are being used by scientists around the world in their daily work, running thousands of concurrent computational jobs and transferring large amounts of data. The successful and sustainable operation of such grid infrastructures is only possible through the use of monitoring tools. The underlying networks upon which grid infrastructures are built are critical to their operation; therefore, network monitoring becomes an important part of the overall grid monitoring strategy. In this paper, the design and implementation of a set of tools for providing access to federated network monitoring data are presented, based on standards developed within the Open Grid Forum Network Measurements Working Group (NM-WG). These tools give access to data collected by heterogeneous, NM-WG compliant network monitoring tools.
authors.affiliation: EPCC, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, UK. jeremy@epcc.ed.ac.uk
authors.forename: Jeremy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nowell
authors.forename: Kostas
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kavoussanakis
authors.forename: Charaka
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Palansuriya
authors.forename: Michal
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Piotrowski
authors.forename: Florian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Scharinger
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Graham
authors.forename: Bartosz
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dobrzelecki
authors.forename: Arthur
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Trew