I have looked at these tools and found nothing which fills what I am
looking for completely. I use combination of applications done by other
people (i.e. MRTG) and written by my self. If anybody wants to see what I
have written I will gladly share it. Basicly it is perl script which does
pings and creates a web page with this information.
david
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Fernando Lozano wrote:
> Hi Derek!
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am looking for a very robust solution for monitoring activity on a
> > network.
> >
> > - auto-configuration - meaning that it can take a block of IP
> > addresses and figure out if machines are up, what OS
> > they are running, and the open ports.
> >
> > - new machine alert - notify me of new machines that start
> > listening on a block of IPs
> >
> > - web based and web configurable
> >
> > - handle several thousand hosts
> >
> > - elaborate alert notification system
>
>
> I use NetSaint which is a very good tool but is not auto-configurable. It relies on
>you telling which hosts to monitor and for what services. Sincerily, after trying a
>few tools performing "auto-discovering" of the network I prefer to type all data into
>NetSaint. It is very flexible, configurable and reliable, besides meeting your
>requirements except for the first.
>
> NetSaint does not support your second requirement out-of-the-box (new machine
>alert) but I can imagine many easy ways to configure it to do this. If you are
>willing to start a new project, I beg you to join the NetSaint developers and provide
>your extra features as a plug-in.
>
>
> []s, Fernando Lozano
>
>
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