Hi all - The Merit Network Statistics Collection And Reporting Facility (NetSCARF) Project will be hosting a free workshop in the afternoon on the day *before* NANOG. We will provide an overview of the (1.x and October release 2.0) technology (see agenda below), future release plans, and open the floor to feedback and discussion about how you would like to see the product evolve. The NetSCARF SCION software package is a public domain network statistics collection and reporting package that uses SNMPv1 or SNMPv2u to collect stats from network devices and reports the network performance on the web. Release 2 is scheduled to be released early October and features automated stats compression and an updated OpStats client and server. For this first workshop, we have openings for the first fifty (50) that register at http://www.merit.edu/~netscarf. If you get a chance, read the Connexions NetSCARF article on our web page before the workshop. The second workshop will be held in January or February 1997 and include a discussion of the 3.0 release. If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me at wbn@merit.edu or call at 313.936.2656. Thanks, Bill ======================================================================== NetSCARF Workshop - October 23, 1996 1-5PM ------------------------------------------ Welcome, Model and Rationale - Bill NSFNET Operations 3 Graphs of proven utility Proposal to RAC Architecture Overview - Andy NetSCARF Model - abstractions, functionality divisions, etc. Scollect Component - Bill SNMP Overview Scollect Task Storage of Stats: Rtdata Tree Scook Component - Tom Motivation behind aggregating data (statistics on file sizes, etc.) The four aggregate files e-mail report New compression process OpStats Model - Andy Components of the RFC ScServer Component - Adam ScClient, Scache Component - Kevin How the client can be extended How Existing Reports are generated NetSCARF Futures - Discussions - all Our visions, customer visions ---------------------------------------------------------------------- William B. Norton <wbn@merit.edu> (313) 936-2656