Open Source Network Monitoring System

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 for NetDirector:

• Role-based Access Controls
• Configure multiple servers – physical or virtual – at once.
• Open Source (Licensed under the NetDirector Public License)
• Form-based configuration of popular open source services (Apache, BIND, DHCP, LDAP, Postfix, Samba, Kerberos, Sendmail, VSFTP, etc.)
• Add Users and Groups across multiple servers at once
• Stop and restart services remotely
• Rollback and histories of Server Configurations
• Schedule changes to occur when you choose
• Freely downloadable from SourceForge
• Server configuration cloning, very good for disaster recovery or qucik trouble shooting Read the rest of this entry »

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 simulate Cisco 7200. But now it supports also Cisco 3600 series (3620, 3640 and 3660), 3700 series (3725, 3745) and 2600 series (2610 to 2650XM, 2691).

Quick Howto

1. Download and Install WinPcap (if you don’t have)
2. Download and Install Dynagen latest version
3. You have to own legal Cisco IOS Images, Copy it from your cisco router
4. Read the tutorial

Download and References

1. Download WinPcap
2. Download Dynagen
3. Dynagen Tutorial
4. Blindhog, Superb Cisco Tutorial, in video

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 community. GroundWorks solutions is combining the following open source great product: Cacti, Ganglia, MRTG, Nagios, NeDi, Network Weather Map, Nmap, RRD Tool, SendPage and SmokePing.

In term of scale of network monitoring, GroundWorks has three products:

1. GroundWorks Monitor Enterprise
2. GroundWorks Monitor Professional
3. GroundWorks Monitor Community Read the rest of this entry »