Abstract :
All LANs require regular administration and
management in order to function efficiently and
effectively. A Network Administrator is required to
perform a range of duties in order to achieve this
efficiency and effectiveness. These include maintaining
system security, implementing backup strategies,
installing software, upgrading software, managing data
storage and ensuring provision of virus protection.
Accordingly, the main purpose of this paper is to provide
an enhanced software tool used for troubleshooting the
local area network. The proposed package helps the
network administrator or troubleshooter to allocate,
isolate and repair drawbacks that might occur in the
network. Also, the proposed software has a capability of:
detect any link that might go down through the use of
basic or advanced "ping" commands, trace the router of
packets to a specific host through the use of advanced
"trace route" command and monitor all nodes and hosts in
the LAN report and log any error that might occur to the
link of the node or host. So, applying our suggested
software tool support the major jobs of the LAN
administrator. Finally, this paper was terminated with
some important recommendations deals with various
urgently points to be searched by others as a future work.
