Re: Network Monitors

[martin () wonderfrog net]

Hello all,

We use a package called "mon" by Jim Trockij.  It's a daemon which
appears to scale pretty well....it's a perl critter, and has all kinds
of easily modified modules for monitoring, alerting, paging, and even
for controlling the daemon itself.  You can easily add your own, and it
allows you a fair amount of flexibility when setting 'threshholds' for
sensitivity....i.e, if you have a host on a LAN, you want a very low
threshhold for alerts, but if you are testing a host on a transatlantic
-pacific link, you can select a higher threshhold of "sensitivity", so
you don't get a page just because a router got reset somewhere in
Newfoundland or Canberra...

http://ftp.kernel.org/software/mon/

-Martin

On 29 Nov, Russell Van Tassell wrote:
  : On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 09:57:06AM -0800, Kaptain wrote:
  : > Hi all, a slightly off topic question:
  : > 
  : > Any recommendations on network monitors to verify smtp, http, and
  : > firewall online status (ping) of various machines.  I'm looking for
  : > something that can send a page or an e-mail if there is a problem. Thanks!
  : 
  : 
  : Right now, my preference is NOCOL... it runs on most UN*X systems (it
  : requires a fiarly recent version of Perl) and comes with source.  It's
  : fairly easy to extend and develop monitors for and, best of all, it's
  : currently free...
  : 
  :    http://www.netplex-tech.com/software/nocol/
  : 
  : Yeah, it has its own share of problems, but the price is right...
  : 
  : Russell
  : 
  : 

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