Study on Advanced Visualization Tools In Network Monitoring Platform

Visualization tools have emerged as a critical component, especially in medical, education, engineering, military and environmental management. These fields have applied the visualization techniques to improve decision making and organization management performance. In recent times, with the advent of Internet and the explosive growth of networking infrastructure on a global scale demand for an intuitive and wholesome approach to visual the network traffic. Complexity of network architecture and insufficient vendor support are the major issues always that are faced by a user in solving a network monitoring problem. Network engineer needs to start on network monitoring by integrating conventional network monitoring tools with an innovative visualization tool, which can provide the network activities that are easily understood by a user. Currently, there are numerous data visualization tools in network monitoring namely network analysis visualization, spinning cube of potential doom (SCPD), visual information security utility for administration live (VISUAL), SeeNet, Cichlid, CyberNet and others. These tools provided useful information about network activities, which important for monitoring purpose. Our work entails the development of an advanced visualization framework to intelligently visualize high volume, real-time network traffic data.