RE: [SA-list] Bolt on software

[Kevin Stone]

Title: Message

My current toolkit consists of:

 

Windows 2000 server running IIS with perl and PHP

Servers Alive

MySQL

Kiwi CatTools(for Cisco reporting)

Kiwi Syslog

Snare and EventReporter

Somarsoft tools(Dumpsec, DumpEVT)

Numerous Perl scripts and PHP pages to present it all

 

As time permits I have been writing a paper on how I fit all this together that I hope to upload relatively soon.  With real work being crazy I haven't been able to incorporate a lot of the latest improvements by Dirk and the rest of the community(Brent, Roland and others) and they may have to come later.  Another projects that is being worked on(that I'm aware of) is using nmap to discover the network and add it to an SQL database.  A set of web pages and perl scripts will read the database allow you to choose the items to be monitored and write new lines to the host file.  The host file is then reloaded via the telnet or SSH interface.  At the current pace though this is still a few months away.

 

-Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Cook
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 9:51 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SA-list] Bolt on software

Morning all,

Just reading a post on the mailing list and given what seems to be a true user community for servers alive, I'm wondering if everyone would like to share with the rest of us how we use Servers Alive and probably more specifically what other software we use with it to produce the sorts of results we're all after in replacing sonething like OpenView or Tivoli to create the sort of 'management portal' that Kevin ('Kevin Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED]) talks about. I think such a list that goes beyond the external checks on the sa site would be an invaluable tolls to the SA community. For my part (and please don't laugh as I'm fairly new to SA):

• Windows 2000 and NT resource kit, especially tools like qgrep
• Kix, perl and std batch scripting (the first two of which are endlessly useful)
• MRTG, RRD Tool and JFF Network Management System across Apache and PHP
• Kiwi syslog
• All logging to an SQL server
  

Now all of this is fairly separate at the moment but the plan is to bring it and more together into one 'portal' for our support staff

Regards,
Dave Cook