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BLIND MEN FEELING THE ELEPHANT MANAGING APPLICATION NETWORK PERFORMANCE: STANDARDS, TOOLS AND CHALLENGES
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@MISC{Gemmill_blindmen,
author = {Jill Gemmill},
title = {BLIND MEN FEELING THE ELEPHANT MANAGING APPLICATION NETWORK PERFORMANCE: STANDARDS, TOOLS AND CHALLENGES},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
As distributed computing becomes ubiquitous, the ability to troubleshoot, improve performance, and provide meaningful service level agreements requires some overall understanding of an application’s performance from end to end. The ability to drill down to increasing levels of detail as needed would be helpful, preferably with some intelligent guidance as to where to look. Today’s efforts to manage end-toend performance for applications can resemble blind men groping at the unknown. Applications have different characteristics, run on platforms with varying power with varying operating systems, and travel over heterogeneous networks. This paper will explain current standards for performance measurement, describe the range of tools available, and identify components that will be useful for analyzing applications running or originating on the campus network at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Given the size and complexity of UAB’s network, insights gained will be of general interest. 1.
