Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

It has finally dawned on this thick head that analysis of time series
data is a 'Good Thing' and that there have been determined attempts to
do so by

. Cricket (http://cricket.sourceforge.net/aberrant

. Senior Deri (http://luca.ntop.org/ADS.pdf)

Senior Deri's article refers to code downloadable from the Ntop site.

I was hoping to see code - yep, opportunist is my name - to analyse the
data from the RRD and conclude whether or not an anomaly is present, but
couldn't find anything.

The closest seems to be the RRD and Perl examples in the www directory
of the Ntop distribution.

Is there anywhere else I can look ?

Has anyone had any experience with using Ntop as the collector for
network time series data and the processing of that time series to
determine if 'all is well' ?

Please accept my apologies if this is letter is along the lines of "yeah
that's really nice but can I have your wife and kids - and your house
and money as well ?".

The main reason for it is to focus on using Ntop to detect anomalies.

Once again, if the state of the art is:

. use Ntop as a collector and harvest the measurements from it

.  store the measurements in an RRD (because that is simply the standard
method of doing so) and then 

. dump it and analyse it according to what part of the massive time
series literature one is clever enough to recognise and code

then please let me know.

This is really an exciting prospect. Thank you very much for putting
this much of the solution - in the wonderful ntop engine - in front of
me.

Perhaps this is an infinitismal part of Mr Strauss's reply to 'Ruth'
about modelling traffic ?

In any case, I happy to be the most stupid understudy to the Strauss
Besso for Senior Deri (see 'Einstein for beginners').

Yours sincerely.
-- 
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Stanley Hopcroft
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'...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...'

from Meditation 17, J Donne.
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