Árvore hiperbólica como ferramenta de monitoramento de rede

Abstract

From the technological progresses mainly provided by the information technology, it has become indispensable the use of computer networks for the organizations. In the greater number of these organizations, there are several network equipments which are very important for the acting of their activities. The majority of those activities is critical and need to have high availability of the equipments that also should constantly be monitored and managed. Nowadays, institutions and companies have used several tools to administrate and monitor their information systems. An alternative has been the use of the free code software denominated Nagios. That software has a graphic module to monitor the whole hierarchical structure of a computers network. The proposal of this paper is to improve this graphical structure generated by the responsible module, taking into consideration that the current does not have dynamism and interaction adequate for large hierarchical structures. To accomplish that goal, this paper introduces a hyperbolic structure tree, a visualization technique of large hierarchies, as a monitoring module for the Nagios. That module tries to improve the usability of the software Nagios, optimizing the administration process of the monitored network services.