As part of my first year mini project I have to develop an application that should be such that when its deployed on a LAN, the server should at any time be able to find out the number and details of all nodes connected to the network, The details of file-sharing.
So is creating a log of all network activities and sending it over a good idea?
I need to somehow be able to create a log of the network activity that a computer does. Like a list of file the computer copied from another on the LAN and the list of files that he sent. So that when the server asks for the details it can be sent. The LAN will be connected via a switch so all communications between clients will not reach the server and so the log to store the history too.
I tried to find this myself but just couldnt get anywhere. I found Beej's tutorial via Google while looking for information on Sockets and SNMP. I read the tutorial but I am a complete newbie in this field and couldnt understand it all. I am still trying. Please help me in whatever way you can. I need to know how its done as we will need it in other similar projects.
Can this be done in anyway other than creating the log?
I am a first year computer engineering student from India. Sockets look wonderfull but very hard to understand.