This tool performs root cause analysis to identify the causes of a high page load time in a web browsing session.

All the additional software can be retrieved from http://firelog.eurecom.fr/mplane/software:

• phantomJS headless browser toolkit
• apache flume > 1.5.2
• custom Tstat 2.4

• Configure and compile Tstat on your machine, following the instruction at http://tstat.tlc.polito.it/index.shtml:

  $ cd eur-tstat-2.4
  $ ./autogen.sh
  $ ./configure.sh
  $ make
  $ cd ..

DO NOT run "make install".

• You need to compile with sudo privileges the C programs in the script/ folder:

  $ cd script
  $ sudo gcc -o start.out start.c
  $ sudo gcc -o stop.out stop.c
  $ sudo chmod 4755 *.out

• You need a set up a configuration file for Tstat, specifying the interface to sniff. e.g.,:

192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0

• If you want to use Flume as source for storing data on HDFS, configure Flume as detailed in https://flume.apache.org/FlumeUserGuide.html#configuring-individual-components

• Modify accordingly the parameters in the file conf/firelog.conf.

• Run

$ ./phantomprobe.py -h