Tool of the Day: Argus Argus Monitoring System software is a system and network monitoring application. It will monitor (TCP + UDP applications, IP connectivity, SNMP OIDS, Programs, Databases, etc). It presents a nice clean, easy to view web interface It can send alerts numerous ways (such as via pager) and can automatically escalate if someone falls asleep. It is open-source software written entirely in Perl, and provides a web based interface.
features: - It is open-source available at no charge. - It has a clean and intuitive web interface. - The web pages can easily be understood by non-technical people. - It can generate graphs of what is going on. - It can monitor network connectivity (Ping test) - It can monitor TCP/UDP ports - It can monitor a wide variety of TCP/UDP applications (HTTP, SMTP, RADIUS, ...) - It can monitor the output or exit code of a program (Program test) - It can monitor the content of a web page (such as a shopping cart application) - It can monitor the authoritativeness of a nameserver - It can monitor SNMP OIDs (such as BGP status, UPS voltage, room temperature, ...) - It can monitor the results of SQL queries - It can monitor itself. - It can be extended to monitor things that the author didn't think of - It can notify someone (or many people) when something happens - It can escalate, and notify someone else, if things don't get fixed. - It can not alarm for known downtime (maintenance overrides) - It will summarize and rate-limit multiple notifications to prevent paging-floods. - It keeps historical statistics, for analysis or SLA verification. - It scales well and can monitor many, many things. - It can restrict users to viewing only certain items (user "views") - It can restrict users access to certain features (access control) - It can support IPv6. - It can support SNMPv3. - It can support l10n for your native language. - It can support redundant multi-server configurations. Home page: http://argus.tcp4me.com/ for binary package: http://argus.tcp4me.com/download.html screenshot: http://argus.tcp4me.com/shots.html regards, dhanasekar _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
