[CLUE-Tech] A Linux version of system and network monitoring?

[Tom Poindexter]

Scotty & Tkined does a nice job of network monitoring.  Scotty is a Tcl
extension for network managment, Tkined is a graphical monitoring tool that
uses Scotty.  It can do some of the same icon coloring out of the box, e.g.,
start monitoring a device for reachability, turns blinking red when it fails.
Also can monitor SNMP, do SNMP tree walks, monitor syslog, DNS lookups, 
various Tcp servers, etc.

Many years ago at a client site, I used Scotty/Tkined to replace a 
quarter-million-dollar network monitoring system that was too big and complex 
for the immediate task at hand (pinging other machines and turning the 
icons red :-)

http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/scotty/
http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~schoenw/scotty/

Here's a screenshot:
http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~schoenw/scotty/news.gif


On the downside, recent scotty development is fairly light, and most recent
code is in the public CVS archive.  On the plus side, it's pretty easy to
write some custom monitoring code, and Scotty has some chapters of a book
devoted to it:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130807273/




On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 05:56:23PM -0600, Crawford Rainwater wrote:
> The votes have come in (from a few other lists and from
> some of my ITEC folks), Netsaint seems to do what I am
> looking for at this point via word of mouth.  I have some
> reading up to do.
> 
> To elaborate on Tivoli some (at least the usage I had with
> it a few years back), basically you can assign icons
> network IDs, and there is a continuous connectivity check
> for services.  If there is a break in the network or a bottleneck,
> icon can change status (normally via colors: green (good), yellow
> (oops, something is up), red (bad), brown (inactive net ID)) and
> use to trace down the "problem".
> 
> Thanks for the responses in advance.
> 
> --- Crawford
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: clue-tech-admin at clue.denver.co.us
> > [mailto:clue-tech-admin at clue.denver.co.us]On Behalf Of Michael Robbert
> > Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 5:04 PM
> > To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us
> > Cc: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> > Subject: Re: [CLUE-Tech] A Linux version of system and network
> > monitoring?
> >
> >
> > Crawford,
> > The two big ones that I know of for you to look into are Big
> > Brother(www.bb4.com) and NetSaint(www.netsaint.org).
> > BB is not GPL, but is free for non-commercial use, OK for most
> > people. NetSaint is GPL so you're good to go there.
> > I'm guessing that neither is going to come close to everything
> > that Tivol or OpenView, but I wouldn't know as I haven't tried
> > either of those.
> >
> > * Crawford Rainwater (crawford.rainwater at itec-co.com) wrote:
> > > Folks,
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of a Linux based system and network
> > > monitoring program out there?  Similar to Tivoli or
> > > HP OpenView, preferably under GPL and free?  If so,
> > > links and such would be great.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > --- Crawford
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