NT administration tools

• Student: Christopher Dotson 6/2000, now at IBM/Lexington
• Purpose: Port SAT, Pulsar, and Rdist (Unix administration tools) to work under Windows NT.
• SAT: Modify the C source code and compile and run it under the the publically available Cygwin package. Modify the Perl-based report programs as appropriate to generate NT-like configurations.
• Pulsar: Modify the Tcl/Tk-based pulse monitors as needed to view NT behavior.
• Rdist: Various approaches were tried without success.
• What the student learned
  1. NT administration: registry and performance APIs
  2. Tcl/Tk and Perl programming for reports, pulse monitors.
  3. Writing applications to derive information from the NT log and performance counters (this part took considerable cleverness).
  4. Porting Unix programs with Cygwin.
  5. Technical writing skills in preparing the and packaging the resulting tools.