David, I'll gladly to know what u've done with MRTG for network 
monitoring....

David Brett wrote:

> 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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