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GroundWork Open Source Enterprise Network Monitoring

Introduction
GroundWorks is a professional company that deliver commercial open source based IT management and network monitoring solution. From the start, GroundWorks solutions are prepared as an extensible, scalable and cost-effective alternative to HP OpenView, BMC Patrol, IBM Tivoli and CA Unicenter.
The power of GroundWorks solutions are the capability to combine great solution from open source [...]

NeDi Network Discovery and Mapping

Introduction
Network Discovery. That is the main purpose of NeDi described by its author Remo Rickli, in 2001. It will try to discover not only networks devices but including any host connected to the network. It will keep the inventory and track any change. If a device becomes unreachable it will sent email notification.
And now after [...]

SmokePing Open Source Network Latency Grapher

Introduction
If we talk about network quality, as i know, there are three things we should monitor:

Latency
It is the time needed for the sender to send a packet and get reply. Other term is Round Trip. Propagation, Transmission, Router are affecting the Latency.
Packet Loss
When the sender send packet but got no reply we can say it [...]