ARTS

ARTS is a format used for data captures of network topology and performance that is used by the cflowd and skitter utilities. There is an arts++ library to access this file format, which is a binary format. A newer utility, scamper, uses warts files instead.

Skitter is not connected with the character of that name in the Worm web serial, who is a superpowered teenage girl who can control insects; the sorts of bugs users of the skitter utility may be tracking down are of a different sort.

Links

 * arts++ library
 * cflowd
 * skitter
 * Sample code
 * rb-wartslib: library for WARTS that also supports ARTS
 * What is Skitter
 * Macroscopic topology measurements
 * Some notes about ARTS files