Robert, Darrell, Thanks for your pointers about nmap and nPulse.
I went to the extreme and installed a clean system with SME v5.1.2 and nPulse0.54 and nmap-2.54BETA31-1, and followed the advice on Darrell's howto. Still have exactly the same problems with port configuration and OS detection in nPulse as before, however when testing with nmap command line alone, I can detect OS types, and it seems to be working just fine. I have asked the author about dynamic DNS, and I am awaiting his response. I found the following warning at http://www.horsburgh.com/h_npulse.html ------------------------------ nPULSE - Web-based network monitoring package for Linux and Unix Version 0.54 Download 380K nPULSE is a web-based network monitoring package for Unix-like operating systems. It can quickly monitor tens, hundreds, even thousands of sites/devices at a time on multiple ports. nPULSE is written in Perl and comes with its own (SSL optional) web server for extra security. FLASH!!There have been reports of problems when installing on RedHat 6.2 and 7.1 systems. You must upgrade Perl to 5.6.1 or later for nPulse to work properly. Also, there is an invalid CGI.pm "alpha" version at some mirror sites, make sure you are using CGI.pm version 2.753. --------------------------------- However on SME v5.1.2 with Update 1 applied, I have perl version 5.6.0. Did either of you upgrade your version of Perl in addition to the CGI.pm update referenced in the howto? I am wondering if the Perl upgrade (not CGI, but the base) is the cause of my problem as reported on horsburgh.com. Also, how can one tell which version of CGI.pm is installed? Thanks! Bruce Friedman ----- Original Message ----- From: "robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruce L. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 1:31 AM Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] npulse network monitor Dynamic DNS > Hello Bruce > On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 05:36, Bruce L. Friedman wrote: > > Has anyone been able to configure this to work with dynamic DNS sites? > > It appears to map the name to the IP address once and save that rather > > than the host name you configure with. > No I don't think nmap does that. It would be very handy though. > > > Also, I was unable to configure port monitoring on an SME system? It > > gave me a screen without any location to enter port information. > The "setup" tab > Enter the IP address followed by space then ports separated by comma > eg > 192.168.1.1 25,80,8080,22 > > > And finally, it doesn't seem to be able to detect that the monitored > > system is Linux - at least not for me. > I think thats good! Try a few of these nmap options. > > nmap -sT -O -I IPNUMBER > > > > > > Regards, > > Bruce Friedman > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Darrell May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 4:13 PM > > To: Allen Rapini > > Cc: e-smith-devinfo > > Subject: [e-smith-devinfo] RE:[e-smith-devinfo] npulse network monitor > > HowTo available > > > > > > Allen Rapini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > > I had to go to /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/CPAN and rename the file Config.pm > > > > > to Config.pm.old... > > > > I found the same, but noticed I simply had to hit enter to continue so I > > did not bother at first to think this was an issue. I've now added your > > notes into the Howto. > > > > Thanks for the feedback and fix report Allen. > > > > Regards, > > > > -- > > Darrell May > > DMC Netsourced.com > > http://netsourced.com > > http://myEZserver.com > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues > > Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org > > > > > -- > Robert Slater > Synaptic Solutions > 148 Mitchell Street > Northcote 3070 > VIC > 03 9486 5821 > mobile 0438 133 664 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.synapticserver.com > > -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
