Fluke Network Router manual NetWatch Database, Alerting System, Web Front-end

User’s Guide – version 1.6 NetWatch

NetWatch Database

MySQL was strategically chosen as the database for NetWatch because of the speed with which it performs SQL queries.

It also handles connections very efficiently, thus making it ideal for a web based product like NetWatch. The database stores all NetWatch configuration data and logs.

Alerting System

NetWatch contains a complex alerting system, which alerts the user to certain situations on a device. When an alert occurs this is immediately seen from the web front-end. Alerts can be also sent through E-mail, SMS, syslog and various or media. For detailed information on the alerting system refer to Chapter 4.

Web Front-end

The web front-end plays a very important role with in NetWatch in that it provides the user interface of NetWatch. NetWatch uses a technology called Java Server Page (JSP) in conjunction with our database for controlling the content and appearance of our web front-end. Using this technology NetWatch is able to provide complex reporting to the user.

The JSP pages are served to the user by using a specific web server (which runs on configurable port e.g. 8080) that is installed with NetWatch.

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