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
Dear Santosh,
I am not sure what on the network you want to monitor. If you wish to pay for support and get a good opensource tool for primarily network uptime and effeciency monitoring then (zabbix.sourceforge.net) should suffice.
Otherwise here is a partial list of what I recollect:
1. Protocol specific packet monitor - Ethereal, tcpdump, tcptrace 2. Network Vulnerability Monitoring - Nagios, Nmap, 3. Network Traffic/Bandwidth Monitoring - Pathload, Pathrate 4. Network Benchmarking - Iperf(http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/), Rude (http://rude.sourceforge.net/)
Warning: There could be better options than what I have suggested. A good starting point is www.sourceforge.net and www.freshmeat.net
Hope this helps.
Take care, Paul Alapatt