2004趋势初赛题目.doc

Trend Micro Programming Contest 2004 Preliminary Stage (Version 2.5) Subject Central Computer Activity Monitor System Overview Network administrators manage all computers in their network domain. One of their daily jobs is to ensure every computer is running smoothly without any problem. However, there could be a large number of computers in their network domain. It is difficult to know if there is a computer can’t work properly. They may need to visit computers located in different places to make sure everything is still running. We want to design a client-server system to ease this effort. When this system is deployed to the computers of a network domain, every client will report its system state to the server regularly. At the server side, network administrators can check the system state of every computer remotely. Watching their network domain becomes an easier job. To create such a system, at client side, several “probes” must be installed in different positions in OS. These probes monitor system activities such as network packet transferring, CPU usage, file access and so on. Then client sends the intercepted information to the server. The server receives activity information from all client computers. At the server’s display, administrators can view the system state of the whole network or any single client computer. The system state is presented in “History List” and “History Diagram”, which is text log and 2D history graph respectively. System Activities System activities mean every activity a computer may do. In our system, the clients are expected to keep a watch on the following system activities, collected their information, and report to the server. Network packets Both incoming and outgoing network packets are watched. The information such as protocol, source IP, destination IP, source port and destination port should be collected. File modification/creationModification\deletion of an existing file or creation of a new file are watched. The info