RE: Network Monitors

["Burgess, John (EDS)" <jburgess () railtex com>]

I have been using WhatsUp for a couple years.  It runs  on Windows/NT
platform.  It can be run as a service and has a GUI interface with network
mapping, web admin and monitoring, hierarchical dependencies, alerting via
email, paging, monitors most standard daemons/services like http, smtp,
snmp, nntp, imap, pop, ftp, ntp as well as user defined services.  It is
fairly configurable regarding what and when to monitor and what
circumstances to alert on.  It is easily set-up manually or with discovery,
DNS, wins, or hosts files.  It has some network tools like a thoughput
tester, ip address scanner, whois and a few other things.... It does not
however, work well if your network is DHCP. IPSwitch puts it out (the ws_ftp
people).  I also use it to  produce network uptime/down time reports with it
and it is under $1000.

John B.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kaptain [mailto:kaptain () kaptain com]
Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 11:57 AM
To: firewall-wizards () nfr net
Subject: Network Monitors


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!

-Aaron