Monitoring Bandwidth Usage and Server Performance

Abstract

The University of Ruhuna, one of the leading Universities in Sri Lanka is committed to quality education, research excellence, and strategic partnership with industry and community development. The University needs to take an initiative in developing an intellectual, academic and research base that can attract energetic young academics and professionals to engage in creating the knowledge base that is essential for the development of the Southern region. Since the University of Ruhuna now consists of 7 faculties - Agriculture, Engineering, Fisheries and Marine Sciences & Technology, Humanities & Social Sciences, Management & Finance, Medicine and Science - that cover vitally important aspects in the development paradigm, what remains to be done is to energies the faculties in their research and training activities.

Use of Internet grew fast rate after the introduction of the World Wide Web. Most of the people trying to do their day-to-day work by using Internet. Also the “e” concept is more popular and grew very fast in the world.

For the Internet, bandwidth usage is the very important and valuable issue. Users have to pay for Internet usage, due to that monitoring is one of the very essential events. This project is addressing the Monitoring Bandwidth usage, on application level which runs on a computer system with squid web cache software on Linux operating system. Currently University of Ruhuna does not have any efficient bandwidth monitoring system. Proposed system will address this problem.