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- From: woody@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Subject: Re: Turbostar stats ?
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- Date: 18 Aug 92 06:01:43 GMT
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- Howdy, John.
-
- > It would be nice to produce network use graphs
- > if only we could save the results of repetitive
- > polls to a file. We tried capturing a few
- > thousand "net load" response packets on our
- > network analyzer and plotting the data.
-
- I'm sure you've seen or used Farallon's TrafficWatch, or TrafficWatch
- II. It sounds as though that would do what you want. It basically
- just saves a tab-delimited text file with traffic volume, every X
- seconds. Import these into a spreadsheet, and you can do whatever you
- want with them.
-
- The AG Group has a product called SkyLine, which isn't out yet, but
- should include all the spreadsheet, statistical analysis, and graphing
- functions that TrafficWatch is missing. If you want them to hurry up,
- call Mahboud, and tell him. He's writing it.
-
- Both of these require backround processor time on a Mac, however. If
- you're interested in collecting traffic statistics on multiple
- LocalTalk nets simultaneously, without tying up any Macs, you might
- want to give the folks at Dayna a call, and talk to them about their
- NetScope Probe boxes, which have LocalTalk and Ethernet ports, and a
- little memory, and sit counting packets all day. You poll them with a
- software front-end called NetScope Console. The product marketing
- manager is Nicole Davis, and I'm sure you could convince her to give
- you a volume discount, if you liked them enough to equip the whole
- campus. They aren't terribly expensive, anyhow.
-
- In any case, unless TurboStars are cheaper than StarControllers now,
- it seems like you might be better off sticking with StarControllers...
- They provide a superset of the TurboStar's management features. And I
- did the StarCommand icons. :-) Besides, they only take two-thirds
- the per-pair backboard space, and use a more nearly standard wiring
- scheme on the Amphenol.
-
- -Bill
-
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