Hey all, I'm taking a class on data visualization. For my final project I plan to write a piece of software that will create a visualization of network traffic. Ideally, this will be something that's genuinely useful to network admins. To get started, I've got a few questions:
- What problems do you have that a visualization tool could help solve? Are they fairly concrete (i.e. "I need to monitor all traffic to port X on machines Y-AF") or something more... heuristic (for lack of a better word), such as keeping an eye on overall traffic trends and using your experience in looking at the pretty pictures to spot when something unusual is happening? - What do you need to see in order to solve the problem(s)? Are we talking all traffic to everything, or only packets that meet certain criteria to a single machine? - What workflows are currently in place to tackle the problems that could be improved by having access to a visualization tool? Thank you all in advance! Anything I put together will be released free and open source. Hopefully it will also be useful. -Dan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
