Yup, look for netsaint on freshmeat.net to monitor various machines
(ping/services) - it sends a mail to me if any of our servers go down..
dead handy except for the two machines in a far off room on a dodgy
connection - netsaint discovers them going up and down like a yoyo when
someone opens a door *grin*
Port monitoring software exists too.. I've used some of them but can't
put a name on one at the moment. A search on freshmeat.net would pay
dividends.
Donncha.
PS. Unreal Tournament on Linux now supports SDL so I can play it with my
Riva TNT - grab it from cvs on sourceforge.net :)
Ruairi Roddy wrote:
>> Are Microsoft's failings, and dodgy ISPs, the only thing we have to talk
> about on this list?
> Can I suggest a topic: Linux as a network monitoring tool; what applications
> are out there? I'd like to set up a box on our Internet hub that I can VNC
> in to to see how our ISP, our routers and our leased line are performing.
> If it could packet sniff, send alerts and log when port scans/ping
> probes/other evil ha><or stuff was going on, all the better.
> Anybody got any ideas?
> From: 'Kernel Panic'
>
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