Accounting Meter now available

J Nevil Brownlee <nevil@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> Wed, 20 October 1993 02:48 UTC

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1993 15:39:15 +1300
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Subject: Accounting Meter now available
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The NeTraMet accounting meter and manager is now available, a copy of
the release note is attached below.  I apologise to those who receive
multiple copies of this via several mailing lists.

Cheers, Nevil

         Network Traffic Metering software now available
         -----------------------------------------------

NeTraMet, the first implementation of the Internet Accounting
Architecture (outlined in RFC 1272, "Internet Accounting Background")
is now complete.  

NeTraMet is an accounting meter which runs on a PC under DOS or a
SunOS Unix system.  It builds up packet and byte counts for traffic
flows, which are defined by their end-point addresses.  Addresses can be
ethernet addresses, protocol addresses (IP, DECnet, EtherTalk or IPX)
or 'detail' addresses (IP port numbers, etc), or any combination of
these.  The traffic flows to be observed are specified by a set of
rules, which are downloaded to NeTraMet by a 'manager' program. Traffic
flow data is collected via SNMP from NeTraMet by a 'collector' program.

NeMaC, a combined manager and collector program, is supplied with
NeTraMet.  It downloads rules to meters, and collects data from them.
Although a meter may only have one manager, its data can be collected
by several collectors, which do not have to be synchronised.  NeMac
can manage and collect data from an arbitrary number of meters.

The format of NeMaC's collected flow data files is very general; the
contents of data lines in the file is completely specified by the
user.  ASN.1 opaque objects are used to retrieve flow data so as to
minimise the overheads in using SNMP for this purpose.

NeTraMet is free software, and can be obtained by anonymous FTP from
ccu1.auckland.ac.nz. at any time between 0700 and 2000 GMT (traffic
charges to New Zealand - which we pay - are cheaper between 8 pm and
9 am).

The NeTraMet distribution files are in the directory iawg/NeTraMet.
There are four of them:

   Release.note		This file.

   NeTraMet.man.ps.gz	Users' manual only, in Postscript,
			   compressed with gzip.

   NeTraMet.tar.gz	Full distibution file, including NeTraMet.man.ps,
			   source and Make files for SunOS and Irix,
			   executable files for PC.  Compressed with gzip.

   NeTraMet.zip		Full PC source and Make files.  Archived
			   with pkzip; use pkunzip -d to unpack.
	
NeTraMet provides a valuable tool for analysing network traffic flows,
and should prove to be of interest to anyone interested in network monitoring,
capacity planning, performance measurement, etc.  You are invited to
try it on your network!

User comments and suggestions will be very welcome: please post these to the
Internet Accounting mailing list, accounting-wg@wugate.wustl.edu.  To
join the mailing list, send a request to accounting-ml-request@
wugate.wustl.edu.

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|  Nevil Brownlee:        n.brownlee@auckland.ac.nz         Deputy Director  |
|     Phone: 64 9 373 7599 x8941    Computer Centre, University of Auckland  |
|     FAX:   64 9 373 7425         Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand  |
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Accounting Meter now available nevil
Accounting Meter now available J Nevil Brownlee