A Log Archiving System for Wide Area Networks

• Monitoring and maintaining modern Wide Area Networks is a complex and time consuming task. These are networks that are owned by different Internet Service Providers all over the world. The demands for accessibility grow hand in hand with theincreasing number of services and users. This makes effective troubleshooting more important than ever.There is an obvious lack of tools today to support the analysis of the state of these networks. This work is an attempt to make this analysis faster, more accurate, and to reduce the demands on the network technicians. Today a technician has to work his way through a huge amount of log data produced by the routers in the network. Finding the cause of the problems often requires great skill, experience, and intuition.The goal of this work is to speed up the process of nailing down the source of errors in the network. The basic approach is to store the data in a database. This allows for fast access, for the possibility of combining different methods of analysis, and for filtering out irrelevant information. Furthermore a databasealso allows for the possibility of presenting statistics and tracking faults over longer periods of time.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Datavetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Computer Sciences (hsv//eng)

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Computer Science

Datavetenskap

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