Host Monitoring


        The host monitoring directory contains software that monitors the
        operations of a computer and reports on / responds to any interruptions
        to the services that the machine provides. Many operating systems
        contain inbuilt process accounting features, and are therefore not
        featured here.

          o angel
            Angel is a simple yet useful tool to monitor the services on your
            network. Technically speaking, it's a Perl program that runs every
            'n' minutes (usually fired from your cron) and calls different perl
            subprograms (referred to as "plugins") to do the actual testing. It
            will then generate an HTML table containing the status of your
            network.
            

          o autostatus
            Autostatus is a network and server monitoring program. It is
            designed to support large, arbitrarily complex networks of
            computers, and still provide feedback in a very timely fashion. To
            that extent, it has the following goals: Speed - Autostatus
            attempts to probe for network status as quickly as possible.
            Efficiency - Autostatus will not attempt to check for status on
            portions of the network it already knows are down, eliminating
            redundant checks. Accuracy - Autostatus presents as accurate a
            picture of the network status as it can from its perspective.
            

          o MARS / SPOTS
            MARS is the Monitoring Application for Resources and Servers. SPOTS
            is Something Placed On That System. MARS provides network-based
            monitoring of services, and together they provide free disk space,
            memory and load average information for hosts.
            

          o mon
            mon is a general-purpose resource monitoring system, which can be
            used to monitor network service availability, server problems,
            environmental conditions such as the temperature in a room, or any
            number of things.
            

          o nettest
            nettest is a Perl script which tests the integrity of a net
            connection. If the connection is down, it will either beep the
            speaker, send email, write in the system logs, or all of the above.
            Note this is completely different from the standard 'network
            tester' programs in that it is not meant to test the machines or
            services of any computers on the network, but rather to ensure that
            the physical network connection is intact.
            

          o PIKT
            PIKT is a system monitor whose primary task is to warn of problems,
            and when configured to do so, fix them. PIKT is designed to manage
            large networks, working in a "master" and "many slaves"
            configuration.
            

          o SMS Client
            SMS Client is a UNIX command line utility which allows you to send
            SMS messages to mobile phones and pagers. This software has been
            written and tested on Linux however a number of users have reported
            success running under both AIX and Solaris. SMS Client currently
            supports a wide variety of services providers and protocols,
            including TAP, PageOne, CIMD, SNPP.
            

          o spong
            Spong is a simple systems and network monitoring package. It does
            not compete with Tivoli, OpenView, UniCenter, or any other
            commercial packages. It is not SNMP based, it communcates via
            simple TCP based messages. It is written in Perl. It can currently
            run on every major Unix and Unix-like operating systems.
            

          o Swatch
            Swatch is designed to monitor system activity. When configured,
            Swatch will watch for a particular pattern of activity, and perform
            a specified action in response to it.
            

          o Swatch
            SysWatch is a CGI to display current information about your UNIX
            system. It can display drive partitions, drive use, as well as
            resource hogs, and what current users are doing. It is quite
            customizable.
            

        

        (Note: This list of software and information available at Wiretapped is
        not exhaustive. Users are encouraged to browse and search the archive
        and read any available "-README.txt" files that are available)