sargehendricks

Well, the idea is to have a service that is installed as part of a whole package that will do this. This service will capture all of the data and throw it into a raw data file to then be parsed by another process to be dumped into a SQL database for reporting. The reporting part of this project I think I have handle on... it will all be done via forms. I just don't know how to go about building the service to collect the data that will be reported on.

Ladies and Gentlemen: I am very new to development, but I have a very ambitious project. I am trying to capture data from as many as 35 endpoints. These endpoints will be sending me very similar data. The format will always be the same, but information should be different. What I am looking to do is this... Capture data from all endpoints with this applicaiton (will run as a service) Each "line" of data will be about 135 characters long. I will need to log this data to at least a raw data file. The application will need to add the source IP of the data to the record. I would also like to create an "identifier" to be added to the record to be used for tracking/troubleshooting collection issues. (this can be recycled as long as it is large enough to keep records that are very close together from having the same identifier. This is due to the fact that during business hours, we have have hundreds of records per minute coming in. The question is this: where would I begin to just get the service to listen on a particular port for this data from whatever endpoint?

Does anyone know where I can get a printable .Net framework reference? I need something that I can print out so that I can have it on hand to lookup classes and their functions. Thanks

Thanks for the advice. I don't really care which language I use. I just want it to work. I do have a lot of new info on VB.Net (2003 & 2005). Any suggestions on where to start on basic development concepts? I am very new, so I need to make sure that I begin the design phase properly. Thanks, again!!!!

The source of the data is going to be phone systems (PBXs). The PBXs are obviously on our network via vendor designed NICs. The data that I am trying to capture is call detail records (CDR). This data is mostly numeric, with every field of data separated with a space. Each field, or column, of data is fixed width. I need to be able to caputre that data, add the IP address of the source and a record identifier on the end of each record. This will allow me to better parse the data and dump it into the database as necessary. The purpose of the souce IP is obvious. The purpose of the identifier is to provide a means of discerning which record is which, when we have CDR flowing in from 30 different sources at the same time. I do want to learn how to code this application, because it will allow me to possibly write other apps to help my department. My interest is in making my life easier... not making money. It doesn't have to be pretty... it just has to work.

Okay, I haven't gotten any response on suggestions for a language to use, so I have decided on Visual Basic 2005. I have downloaded the VB 2005 Express with SQL 2005 Express and the MSDN libraries. Now, a truely newbie question. Where do I start? Can someone simply direct me to a source for getting started in programming? I began a project for a Windows Application in VB2K5X, but the first thing that should be developed is a "service" that collects the data that the rest of the application will process. How do I go about building a service that will automatically start in Windows?

Hey There: I am VERY new to the whole application developement thing. I want to work on a side-project outside of work to use at the office if I can make it work. I have not been able to find an existing application that will do what I need without asking the company for hundreds of thousands of dollars... needless to say, the company is not very keen on that. I want to create an application (in the best language) that will collect a data stream from multiple points across our network. That data stream needs to be conditionally parsed, and dumped into a database (SQL). I then want to be able to have a web interface that can be used to query and report on any of the data captured. I want to be able to provide security on that data (i.e. user x can see data appropriate to that user only... not data appropriate for user y). I also want to be able to create reports that can "drill down" to more granualar information. I know, this is a huge project for a newbie, but if I don't do it, it won't be done. I need to know which language would be best to use for this project. Once I have that much info, I can begin the learning process. I don't want to begin learing Visual J# just to find that it can't do what I need (for example). PLEASE HELP!!! Thanks, Sarge

Hey There: I am VERY new to the whole application developement thing. I want to work on a side-project outside of work to use at the office if I can make it work. I have not been able to find an existing application that will do what I need without asking the company for hundreds of thousands of dollars... needless to say, the company is not very keen on that. I want to create an application (in the best language) that will collect a data stream from multiple points across our network. That data stream needs to be conditionally parsed, and dumped into a database (SQL). I then want to be able to have a web interface that can be used to query and report on any of the data captured. I want to be able to provide security on that data (i.e. user x can see data appropriate to that user only... not data appropriate for user y). I also want to be able to create reports that can "drill down" to more granualar information. I know, this is a huge project for a newbie, but if I don't do it, it won't be done. I need to know which language would be best to use for this project. Once I have that much info, I can begin the learning process. I don't want to begin learing Visual J# just to find that it can't do what I need (for example). PLEASE HELP!!! Thanks, Sarge