Open Source Network Monitoring System

Introduction

If you read all the article i submit here regarding the software for network management and monitoring, you will notice that most of them will:

• Use Linux/Unix as the Operating System
• They need Web Server
• They need programming language
• And they need database

Someone(s) make a good concept about four things above. They call it LAMP. Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python. As network administrator you don’t need to know deeply about this LAMP. But at least you know how to install and integrate them. So you can install most software for network monitoring system smoothly.

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Description

Network audit is essential thing for our network. From time to time we have to make sure that our network implementation is as our expectation. There are a lot of software for it. But i’ll bring you one of the solution from open source community.

Nipper. Ian Ventura-Whiting have made this good open source software for Network Audit. Nipper will quickly produce reports on your key network infrastructure devices. The report from nipper could be security audit from the device setting or device configuration report.

Currently Nipper supports many devices from Cisco (Router, Switch Firewall), Nokia, Juniper (ScreenOS), CheckPoint Firewall-1, Bay Networks, SonicWall ( SonicOS ) and Nortel.

The output from Nipper could be in HTML, Latex, XML and Text.

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If you are using hobbitmon and you want to monitor Oracle Database status (tablespace, log, user, processes, memory,etc), there are some scripts/extensions in deadcat. Three of them are:

• Roracle

It is initially from James Huff (c) 2001 bb-moracle.sh, but basterdized by keith sebesta. Also rewrite from bb-moracle. Roracle is capable to monitor database status, processes, user, table space, extent, session, shadow, pin hit, block buffer, memory, rollback and some others. Personalized status and alert also possible.

• Oracle Log Monitors

As you see it from the name, this script will help us to monitor oracle log. Good scripts, another road to be a lazy administrator

• bb-oraperf

For Oracle Hit Performance Monitor you can use this scipts. And it is also possible to integrate it with larrd-grapher (another script to make a graph in hobbitmon).

That’s all what i can share with you. Nice scripts from Open Source Community. Don’t forget to thank the authors.