Open Source Network Monitoring System

Description

JFFNMS stands for Just For Fun Network Monitoring System. Yes it will make network administrator has fun time with their network :). JFFNMS is developed by Javier Szyszlican. What it makes a special NMS software is a lot of feature for fault management and performance management.

Here is the feature i can highlight from JFFNMS website:

• Multi platform
  It is Network Monitoring Software for Windows, Linux, Unix, possibly Mac OS
• Auto Discovery
  You don’t need to specify host or interfaces one by one to monitor as it uses SNMP
• Syslog Logging
• TACACS+ for Authenticating and Accounting
• Modular and Extensible
• Configurable Event Type and Severity Level
• Integration with other software, like smoke ping, nmap, fping, ntp, msyslog, syslogd
• Web GUI
• Map/Sub Map
• Reporting, from traffic, utiliation, error, round trip and a lot more
• Support a lot of MIBs by Cisco, Livingstone, Windows, HP Insight, IIS etc
• Secure Monitoring using HTTPS and or SSH

Quick Howto

1. Install the required software (web server, database, snmp module, php)
2. Install JFFNMS
3. Configure JFFNMS
4. Add Host to JFFNMS

Download and Resources

If you want to install it you need to prepare for Web Server, PHP Support, Database (either MySQL or PostgreSQL). Here is the resources we need to make JFFNMS up and running:

• Download Webserver, Database, PHP from LAMP Resources for Network Administrator
• Download JFFNMS at sourceforge.net
• Read the documentation at jffnms website
• Read Install Guide for UNIX/Linux
• Read Install Guide for Windows
• See JFFNMS Online Demo with user admin password admin

For full JFFNMS screenshot you can visit JFFNMS website.