> - Do you need daily, weekly, monthly reports? Of what kinds of information? Yes... The more information we can provide here the better.
Things like: Period (month, week, etc) total bandwidth usage (%, MB/s, and total MB) Period total downtime Period uptime/reliability (99.97% uptime) > - Do you want reports of outages, traffic trends, utilization? These would all be nice > - Do you care how the data is saved? Would text files suffice? Is an SQL > database required? I think a database would be nice for masaging the data and keeping the speed up. > - If the data were saved in a SQL database, would you want direct access to > the DBMS? It would be very nice to be able to directly access the DB, but if the reporting engine was sufficient we probably wouldn't need it. > - How would you use this data? To help improve service? To look for trouble > spots? To convince your boss you're doing a good job? :-) Be used for reporting we currently do, but just with other systems/methods. And yes to all of the above. We'd have to make it look pretty for management :) -- Allyn Crowe Network Engineering Information and Communications Technology Division Eastern Michigan University 104 Pray-Harrold, Ypsilanti, MI 48197 V: 734.487.2374 "Halo 2 is a lot like Halo 1, only it's Halo 1 on fire, going 130 miles per hour through a hospital zone, being chased by helicopters and ninjas," explained Jason Jones, Bungie Studios head. "And the ninjas are all on fire, too." ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
