NETWORK CRAWLER

Category: Tool Development

Objective: To develop an application which can help an administrator to

manage all the resources from a single system.

Description
Network Crawler is a powerful and featureful monitoring tool for Windows.
It works as a Windows Service and check system status and provides information
regarding available services, running services, stopped services, available drivers,
stopped drivers, running drivers utilizes and other administrator tasks.

It 's d e ve lop e d wit h Vis u a l B a s ic . NE T 2 0 0 3 a n d u s e WMI

(Win d ows Ma n a ge m e n t In s t r u m e n t a t ion ). It c r a wls ove r t h e n e t
wor k for , b u t c a n b e m a d et o s t a r t m a n u a lly wit h s om e c
on figu r a t ion s e t t in gs . Ne t wor k C r a wle r n ot on ly p r ovid e s a
fe a t u r e t o m on it or t h e s ys t e m b u t a ls o provides
the administrators to configure different areas of the system

Ne t wor k C r a wle r u s e s t h e in b u ilt fe a t u r e of Win d ows Ma n a

ge m e n t In s t r u m e n t a t ion t o in t e r a c t wit h t h e lowe r le ve ls of s ys t e
m c on figu r a t ion . A s ys t e m , wh ic h is c on figu r e d a s p e r t h e c on figu r
a t ion , will give a b e t t e r performance.

The notification feature enables the administrator to avail

information regarding the system even when he/she is not at the same
location as that of the system.
PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT
P r ovid e a S in gle e n vir on m e n t fr om wh e r e a n a d m in is
t r a t or can interact with the system resources with in the
network.
P r ovid e s In fo r e ga r d in g t h e n o of s e r vic e s r u n n in g
on t h e system.
To provide an upgrade support for the system resources.
Provides interface to interact with the system parameters like
network settings, OS Settings, Services, Process et.
P r ovid e s m e a n s of r e p or t in g t h e s ys t e m s e t t in g t o a
p e r s on t h r ou gh e m a il. Th e r e b y a n a d m in
is t r a t or c a n k n ow t h e status of a
systems throughout the network

HARDWARE & SOFTWARE SPECIFICATIONS

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS:

PIII 500MHZ or above

128MB RAM
100MB Free Hard disk space
STD Color Monitor

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:

WINDOWS NT 4 | 2000 | 9.X | ME |XP

Visual Studio .Net 2002 Enterprise Edition
Visual Studio .Net Framework (Minimal for Deployment)