RE: Free utiities

["Hunt, Jim" <Jim.Hunt () nwsc k12 in us>]

MRTG is free and is an excellent tool to monitor bandwidth on
links/ports/equipment.  It can be expanded to monitor activity on a
server or printer or just about any SNMP enabled device.
(http://www.netmon.org/mrtg_tools.htm)

Show Traffic is quick and simple to see what traffic is hitting a
specific port/LAN segment.   (http://demosten.com/showtraf/)

Event Sentry Light to monitor Windows NT/2000/2003/XP Event Logs.  Has
filters and is very configurable.  Great way to catch people hacking the
local admin accounts on a workstation.  <evil grin>
(http://www.netikus.net)

It's not 5 but that's all I can think of this early in the morning.

Jim Hunt
Network & Systems Engineer
Northwestern School Corporation
Technology Department

Network Monitoring Tools & Tutorials
http://www.netmon.org 
Featured in Network Computing Magazine


-----Original Message-----
From: Kristofer Mcconnell [mailto:kristofer.mcconnell () prudential com] 
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 6:57 AM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Free utiities

To all,

What are everyone's top 5 free utilities that help troubleshoot,
administer, and apply security to their networks, systems, and such?
These
tools can be used from anything from networking to disk fragmenting. I
like
trying new applications that help with the most mundane and trivial
network
occurrences. I like applications that help me with my day to day
operations
and are easy to use and interpret.

Thanks,
Kristofer Mc Connell
Web Admin
Prudential Financial



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