Implementation of Service Level Measurement Based on System Uptime Sensor of Network Device in Internet Connection Service

摘要

Uptime sensor in network device such as router or modem, indicate the current of total time since the system on. The sensor refer to the system uptime, so the calculation of total time start from when the system on. If the system start initially or restarted, the system uptime will reset. This typical sensor was already proposed as a based of service level measurement in internet connection service. The uptime data is usually stored in network monitoring system (NMS). In the NMS, uptime data used for monitoring only, so in order to measure the service level should be provided by other system. In addition to limitation of the NMS in measuring the service level, deployment the internet service for many locations also should be supported by the system which capable to collect and process a lot of data. Server based application is developed to result the service level measurement as output. The application develop in Linux based operating system, and all system requirement are already provided by Linux's utilities and packages. Peformance of the application with certain hardware specifications is able to calculate the service level measurement for about 1500 locations, it is still can be increased.