Center for Informatics of the Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique

The Informatics Center of the Eduardo Mondlane University (CIUEM) is an academic organ in the computer science industry dedicated on implementation of solutions and methodologies that allow expansion in the use of IT and communication for the University and the whole country. CIUEM provides ICT related services such as Internet services provision, network design, hardware repairing, etc. and acts as an adviser for the University regarding to the ICT policies and strategies.

Network Auditing and Monitoring
with Open Source Software

Field of Application

• Informatics Center of the Eduardo Mondlane University (CIUEM)
• Ministries and other governmental institutions
• Private and public companies

Technology

• Operating systems: Debian Sarge
• Applications: Malware Collector and Network Top (ntop)
• Database: MySQL

The University network, (in particular) includes expensive links to remote networks (WAN) and to the Internet, whose costs are mainly based on traffic volume. It's very important to maintain statistics of traffic going through since bandwidth is still a problem.

In today's world, where all the computing revolves around the concept of networking, the work for system administrators has become more and more challenging. It is necessary to monitor the availability of resources such as routers, hubs, servers and every critical device in the network.
There are many reasons managers would like to monitor network devices: bandwidth utilization, operational state of links, bottlenecks, problems with the cabling or routing information distributed between its devices, etc.
This project is designed to respond the needs of the University, Ministries and governmental institutions as a good starting point for discovering security problems and misbehaviors within the networks.
The goal is to secure and increase the performance of the networks so that the information system is safely and effectively flowing and avoid the mis usage of the network resources.