* Dr. Internet columnist Steve Blass suggests an open source metadata repository * Help Desk columnist Ron Nutter offers advice on how to monitor bandwidth consumption
* Using an open source metadata repositoryhttp://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2005/111405internet.html?rl
By Steve Blass
Q: I’ve worked with some basic Web tools and have experimented with Resource Description Framework and want to build a metadata repository to manage a collection of Web-based and physical resources. Is there a reasonably easy, open source metadata repository software we could try?
A: Try Repository in a Box, which runs under Linux and Windows versions of Apache Tomcat using MySQL for data storage. It provides a full-featured repository management system that automatically publishes a browser-capable and searchable catalog. Repository in a Box uses the Basic Interoperability Data Model IEEE standard for encoding metadata but does not publish RDF data directly.
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* Monitoring bandwidth consumption
By Ron Nutter
Q: I have a 1700 series Cisco router and a 512K bit/sec leased line. About 50 users are accessing the Internet through that router, and I want to monitor my bandwidth consumption through the router. Is there any way by which I can monitor bandwidth (tool or software)?
A: My favorite tool for this type of task is MRTG. It is essentially a Perl script, so you can have it running on just about any platform. There is a little bit of housekeeping that needs to be done before you start turning things on. You will need to enable SNMP on your Cisco router. If you enable it on both the Ethernet and serial port (assuming you are using an external DSU/CSU), you can watch both sides of the router and potentially see problems on both sides.http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2005/111405nutter.html?rl
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