--- 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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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

http://www.bernardlabs.org/

On 05/06/05 21:56 -0700, santoshkk 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 .

http://www.google.com/search?q=network+monitoring+linux http://www.google.com/search?q=nms+linux

As for which is best suited for your organisation, you will have to do your own research or hire an external consultant. I am sure that there are a few here.

Devdas Bhagat