Network Operations

The Argus Project is focused on network activity audit, but the data that Argus generates is a rich source of network activity indications that can drive a number of network operational management tasks.  Argus data provides clear, unambiguous indications of network functionality and fault conditions at a semantic level that could be used to tie together application and network function and performance.

Argus can provide new network operation management information because of it flexible deployment capabilities.  Argus can be deployed in distributed strategies, within both the end system and in the network. Through correlation of the data between multiple probes, issues such as the source of reachability and connectivity faults become solvable problems.   Argus can provide the basic data needed to indicate some routing and network based application errors through its Type-P1-P2 connectivity support.  Argus data also can provide the performance information needed to establish behavioral baseline metrics for network end systems and applications which could then be used to compare against near real-time Argus data collected from the network.

Argus data can support the functions described above in the 2.0.0 release. Tools that analyze Argus data to perform some of these tasks will be developed for future releases of Argus software.