Netramet v2.2 now available

J Nevil Brownlee <nevil@ccu1.auckland.ac.nz> Wed, 20 July 1994 03:52 UTC

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From: J Nevil Brownlee <nevil@ccu1.auckland.ac.nz>
Subject: Netramet v2.2 now available
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Apologies to folks who receive multiple copies of this announcement!

Cheers, Nevil

                 NeTraMet V2.2 now available
                 ---------------------------

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

Many improvements have been made since Version 2.1 in January 94,
including:
   * Two utility programs for processing flow data files included
   * Solaris versions of NeTraMet and NeMaC
   * Solaris and SunOS binaries supplied
   * Make files for Linux and HPUX added.  NeMaC (but not NeTraMet)
       has been ported to these systems.

A short description of NeTraMet and NeMaC appears at the bottom of
this note.

User comments and suggestions will be very welcome: please post these
to the Internet Accounting mailing list, accounting-wg@
wugate.wustl.edu.  A second BOF has been scheduled for the newly
revived Accounting Working Group in the Operations Area at the Toronto
IETF meeting in July 94.  To join the mailing list, send a request to
accounting-wg-request@wugate.wustl.edu.


NeTraMet is free software, and can be obtained by anonymous FTP from
the sites listed below.  Note that these sites make archived material
available as a convenience to users - no endorsement of NeTraMet is
implied.

   ftp.auckland.ac.nz:  directory iawg/NeTraMet
      at any time between 0700 and 2000 GMT (traffic charges to New
      Zealand - which we pay - are cheaper between 8 pm and 9 am).

   ftp.near.net:	 directory pub/NeTraMet

   ftp.delmarva.com:     directory pub/nms

   ftp.funet.fi:	 directory /pub/networking/management/NeTraMet

   ftp.EU.net (Amsterdam):  directory network/NeTraMet

The NeTraMet distribution files are as follows:

   Release.note		This file.

   NeTraMet.man.tar.gz	Users' manuals only, in Postscript, for
			   NeTraMet, fd_filter and fd_extract.
			   Compressed with gzip.

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

   Solaris.tar.gz	NeTramet, NeMac, fd_filter and fd_extract
   SunOS.tar.gz		   binaries for SOlaris and SunOS

   NeTraMet.zip		Full PC source and Make files.  Archived
			   with pkzip; use pkunzip -d to unpack.

	
NeTraMet is an accounting meter which runs on a PC under DOS or a 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, IPX or CLNS) or
'transport' 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 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!


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