Scale of the Problem
Examining the computing environment at the University at Albany-SUNY provides some insight into the scale of this problem. The university's primary Unix server provides email and computing resources for the entire university. As many as 200 users access the system simultaneously. During a one-week period, the server handles more than 25,000 successful connections from over 2,500 different hosts and an undeterminable number of unsuccessful connections. The number of different hosts connecting to the system generates a significant issue of scale for any visualization technique. In addition, the university maintains many other Unix systems that it must constantly monitor.