Re: Request for feedback :)

[Diman Todorov <diman.todorov () gmail com>]

how is that different from nagios[1]?

diman

[1] http://www.nagios.org/

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Dieter Van der Stock
<dietervds () gmail com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> my name is Dieter Van der Stock. I'm a college student studying for Civil
> Engineer - Computer Science in Belgium, and a beginning security
> enthousiast. I'm new to the dev-list and to security-tools development in
> general, so please forgive any technical shortcomings :)
>
> For my thesis I'm making a program based on nmap and ndiff, which I would
> like to share with the open-source world if you guys think it could be of
> use. If the feedback is positive enough, I would like to suggest the further
> development of it for the GSoc program during my summer holiday.
>
> The problem that my tool would try to adress is the following: the company
> that asked me to make it do a lot of broadband research like performance
> testing, deployment and testing of new broadband applications and so on.
> Because of this research they often have to fiddle with the firewalls which,
> as a result, often end up being misconfigured.
> The admin would like a simple interface where they can program portscans of
> their network, which then alerts them of any sudden changes every time that
> the scan is re-run by the tool.
> To make an already long story short: it would serve as a way of making the
> cron-nmap-ndiff cycle transparant and automated to the admins. One can enter
> several assignments through a webinterface which can vary in duration,
> targets, interval, detail, etc, and he will only be bothered by the results
> of the diff if it's worth it.
>
> Obviously I describe it only briefly here, but I'm hoping that it can become
> a useful tool for other administrators out there to check for sudden changes
> in their network.
> So I hereby ask for your feedback :) Any comments are welcome.
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Dieter
>
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