Dude is very simple. It combines the monitoring and notification settings of Nagios in with the link and notification information of MRTG. All in a slick graphic interface with multiple maps, drill down capabilities, etc. You can run it on a RouterOS device or any windows box. It runs just fine on my Ubuntu laptop under wine.
I would agree the web interface is somewhat lacking, but it does show some great information as well as gives you the ability to set it once, and then auto refresh for outages and such. We have several clients that have some PCs with 2-3 Dual video cards with lots of information displaying. heck we have another customer with their PC plugged into there PA system for the paging in the office. Plays sounds when backhauls go down so that they can stop playing pong and fix something. Dennis Mike Hammett wrote: > The "voodoo" that I'm aware of is answering the questions in the setup, > though I may be thinking of something else. > > > ---------- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David E. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 12:25 PM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Network Monitor > > > >> Dennis Burgess wrote: >> >>> It does have a browser interface :) >>> >> Technically true, but the Dude's Web interface is sorely lacking. You >> can look at stuff, but most configuration changes (especially to maps) >> require the Dude client. >> >> There's also the minor annoyance, for some, that The Dude requires >> Windows (or something like WINE). >> >> I remember looking at some Mikrotik hardware I purchased recently, and >> vaguely recall seeing a "dude" package. Does that do what I think it >> does - i.e. act as a standalone Dude server? That's promising, as most >> of the issues I have with my current Dude installation are more related >> to Windows (and the voodoo you have to go through to get The Dude to run >> as a Windows service) than the software itself. >> >> David Smith >> MVN.net >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> >> > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
