Coding works of the Experiment

Here is the TODO list for experiment coding: some of them have long time to achieve and may be implemented later on due to the current works.

  * How to monitor the network bandwidth: the rough idea is to sum the number of packets during a period of time and then to calculate the amount of data per second during this period. At this point, how fine of the records should be concerned.

  * How to write a daemon to let the program running background:

  * How to stop the experiment program at anytime: Investigate how to used signal to tell the experiment process to terminate. Using IPC (Inter process call)??? The main issue is how to used Nagios to spread this instruction across all of the experiment machine.

  * How to monitor the system resources usages:

  * How to use automake to compile my own code together with the shared library of chord or sfslite. For this task, I have get some progresses on nagios snmp plugins. change the Makefile.am in ./src directory and run autoreconf --install in package directory and then automake (not sure if this is required). Then configure it and make it. PROBLEMs to be consider: 1. where is configure.ac? Is it optional for autoconf?
    ANSWER: configure.ac was called configure.in before autoconf 2.50. It can still be found in Chord and nagios snmp plugins distributions. When you modified some places in Makefile.am files or Configure.ac files, don't do anything except make it. All of the .in files will be regenerated.