--- santoshkk santoshkk@allmail.net wrote:
HI I AM LOOKING FOR NETWORK MONITORING TOOL WHICH IS BASED ON LINUX PLATFORM ,CAN U GUIDE ME WHICH IS BEST FOR OUR ORGANISATION . REGARDS SANTOSH K
While I cannot tell you which is the best for your organization, I can suggest a couple of them.
a) Monit b) Nagios
Monit is a quick install and configurable NMT (relatively) and works primarily by checking the procID for the services. it's lightweight you can say. Known limitation: simply checks for LDAP process id running, and does not do a bind (or simulate actual login). so when LDAP is screwed up, you will not come to know since the process is actually running. I dont know if it has a GUI but the conf file is quite intuitive and doable.
Nagios is pretty much the industry standard when it comes to free, linux based network monitoring system. There is a learning curve however, but it believes in binding to ldap thus avoiding a lot of trouble and grief. It has a GUI so u can feel good about running a NMS.
u can even write your own basic version.
hth. abhi
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