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	<title>Open Source Network Monitoring System</title>
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	<description>To be a good and lazy administrator</description>
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		<title>SNMPTT - SNMP Trap Translator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction
In my previous post, it was about Net-SNMP. If you use it for SNMP Trap, in most cases you will see the trap from the device (router, switch, server, ups, printer, etc) will be look like this, taken from snmptt website:
Feb 12 13:37:10 server11 snmptrapd[25409]: 192.168.110.192: Enterprise Specific Trap (3008) Uptime: 306 days, 23:13:24.29, .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.5.0 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.osnms.com/2008/08/snmptt-snmp-trap-translator/</link>
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		<title>Net SNMP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction
I can say, Simple Network Management Protocol is a standard widely used in monitoring. From router, switch, firewall, printer, server, ups, cellular nodes and many other devices. There has been 3 versions of SNMP. SNMPv1, SNMPv2c, SNMPv3. With SNMPv3 as the securest implementation.
Most network monitoring software will use SNMP to collect device information. From CPU, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.osnms.com/2008/08/net-snmp/</link>
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		<title>GNS3 - Cisco Graphical Network Simulator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction
Another great product from open source community. If you have read Dynagen and Dynamips then this will enhance your experience in cisco simulation. GNS3 offers complex graphical network simulator and launch simulation on them.
Features currently supported by GNS 3 are:


Designing high quality complex network topologies.
Emulating Cisco routers and PIX firewalls.
Simulating simple Ethernet, ATM and Frame [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.osnms.com/2008/08/cisco-graphical-network-simulator/</link>
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		<title>NetDirector Open Source Configuration Management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction
If you like webmin to manage your unix/linux server, than you will love NetDirector much more. The concept is a centralized management. So you can manage any server in any location from single web based administration.
Here is the main features of NetDirector i got from EmuSoftware website, which is the company that provide commercial support [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.osnms.com/2008/08/netdirector-open-source-configuration-management/</link>
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		<title>Dynagen Cisco Network Simulator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction
It is not directly related to Network Monitoring software. But we can use this software to have better understanding on our network and it is possible to simulate our current network using this software. Of course Cisco product.
Dynagen actually is a front end of a famous cisco simulator software, dynamips. Dynamips designed in 2005 to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.osnms.com/2008/08/dynagen-cisco-network-simulator/</link>
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		<title>GroundWork Open Source Enterprise Network Monitoring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.osnms.com/2008/08/groundwork-open-source-enterprise-network-monitoring/</link>
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		<title>NeDi Network Discovery and Mapping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.osnms.com/2008/08/nedi-network-discovery-and-mapping/</link>
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		<title>Zipper Network Configuration Audit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction
As you know ziptie is a good configuration management and Nipper is a good configuration audit. What about if both of them is integrated? Well, Ziptie Community has provided a good plugin called Zipper. So, right after we backup our network configuration, we can audit it internally from ziptie.
But there are some limitations right now:

Run [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.osnms.com/2008/07/zipper-networkconfiguration-audit/</link>
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		<title>SmokePing Open Source Network Latency Grapher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.osnms.com/2008/07/smokeping-open-source-network-latency-grapher/</link>
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		<title>Ziptie with MySQL or PostgreSQL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction
It is possible to replace derby database, ziptie&#8217;s original database, with MySQL or PostgreSQL. For me derby is enough to handle ziptie. Small resource, based on java and sql standard, easy backup (just copy the directory) and of course integrated with ziptie from beginning.But if you already have MySQL or PostgreSQL, it is good idea [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.osnms.com/2008/07/ziptie-with-mysql-or-postgresql/</link>
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