Projects tagged ‘monitoring’

Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer, and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions. (Wireshark was known as Ethereal until June 09, 2006)

Tcpdump prints out the headers of packets on a network interface that match the boolean expression.

Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X: it allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications.

smartmontools contains utilities that control and monitor storage devices using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) system built into ATA and SCSI hard drives. This is used to check the reliability of the hard drive ... [More] and to predict drive failures. It is meant to be an up-to-date replacement for the ucsc-smartsuite and smartsuite packages, and is derived from that code. [Less]

Nagios (formerly Netsaint) is a daemon written in C that is designed to monitor networked hosts and services. It has the ability to notify contacts (via email, pager or other methods) when problems arise and are resolved. Host and service checks are ... [More] performed by external "plugins", making it easy to write custom checks in your language of choice. Several CGIs are included in order to allow you to view the current and historical status via a Web browser, and a WAP interface is also provided to allow you to acknowlege problems and disable notifications from an internet-ready cellphone. [Less]

Hudson is an automated build system for a team as well as a system that monitors automated jobs (such as cron jobs)

Munin the monitoring tool surveys all your computers and remembers what it saw. It presents all the information in graphs through a web interface. Its emphasis is on plug and play capabilities. After completing a installation a high number of ... [More] monitoring plugins will be playing with no more effort. Using Munin you can easily monitor the performance of your computers, networks, SANs, applications, weather measurements and whatever comes to mind. It makes it easy to determine "what's different today" when a performance problem crops up. [Less]

Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features ... [More] out of the box. All of this is wrapped in an intuitive, easy to use interface that makes sense for LAN-sized installations up to complex networks with hundreds of devices. [Less]

mtr combines the functionality of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool.

Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like ... [More] /etc/passwd, and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely. Webmin respects comments and configuration file order, is easy to install, includes dozens of translations, and runs on most Operating Systems. [Less]

Snort® is an open source network intrusion prevention and detection system using a flexible rule-driven language, which combines the benefits of signature, protocol and anomaly based inspection methods. With millions of downloads to date, Snort is ... [More] the most widely deployed intrusion detection and prevention technology worldwide and has become the de facto standard for the industry. [Less]

GKrellM is a single process stack of system monitors which supports applying themes to match its appearance to your window manager, Gtk, or any other theme.

ntop [Network Top]: ntop is a network probe that shows network usage in a way similar to what top does for processes. In interactive mode, it displays the network status on the user's terminal. In Web mode, it acts as a Web server, creating an ... [More] HTML dump of the network status. It sports a NetFlow/sFlow emitter/collector, an HTTP-based client interface for creating ntop-centric monitoring applications, and RRD for persistently storing traffic statistics. [Less]

monit is a utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and devices on a UNIX system. monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.

The NET-SNMP (formerly UCD-SNMP) package contains various tools relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol including an extensible agent, an SNMP library, tools to request or set information from SNMP agents, tools to generate and handle SNMP ... [More] traps, a version of the unix 'netstat' command using SNMP and a Tk/perl mib browser. It was originally based on the Carnegie Mellon University SNMP implementation (version 2.1.2.1), but has been greatly enhanced, ported and fixed and barely resembles the original package anymore. [Less]

Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, filtering web page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious junk. It is based on the Internet Junkbuster.

Ettercap is a network sniffer/interceptor/logger for ethernet LANs. It supports active and passive dissection of many protocols (even ciphered ones, like SSH and HTTPS). Data injection in an established connection and filtering on the fly is also ... [More] possible, keeping the connection synchronized. Many sniffing modes were implemented to give you a powerful and complete sniffing suite. Plugins are supported. It has the ability to check whether you are in a switched LAN or not, and to use OS fingerprints (active or passive) to let you know the geometry of the LAN. [Less]

Zabbix is software that monitors your servers and applications. Polling and trapping techniques are both supported. It has a simple, yet very flexible notification mechanism, and a Web interface that allows quick and easy administration. It can be ... [More] used for logging, monitoring, capacity planning, availability and performance measurement, and providing the latest information to a helpdesk. [Less]

Zenoss is an IT infrastructure monitoring product that allows you to monitor your entire infrastructure within a single, integrated software application.Key features include: Monitors the entire stack: networks, servers, applications, services, power, environment, etc.

phpSysInfo is a customizable PHP script that parses various files in /proc and displays them. It will display information about system facts like Uptime, CPU, Memory, SCSI, IDE, PCI, Ethernet, Floppy, and Video. It now has full internationalization support along with customizable templates.

The Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) provides a set of building blocks for creating tools to test and monitor a distributed application. This include Java profiling and automated and managed test suites. For example you can do JVM ... [More] profiling of a local or remote Java application. You can also record and drive HTTP load test or JUnit tests. In addition there is tooling to monitor system resources as well as collect and analyze log files. [Less]

Tools for monitoring the hardware health of Linux systems.

Hyperic HQ is designed to maximize availability of all data center assets, where the demands of SOA, virtualization and composite applications are changing the pace and complexities of modern IT operations. HQ lets you monitor more than 60 platforms ... [More] , servers, and services out of the box, with the most comprehensive technology coverage of any IT operations management software provider. HQ is built on an agent-server model and features auto-discovery, alerting, event and log tracking, remote corrective control actions, an extensible easy-to-use plugin model, and an intuitive web-based management portal. [Less]

collectd is a small daemon which collects system information periodically and writes the results to an RRD-file. What does collectd do? collectd collects information about the system it is running on and writes this information into special ... [More] database files. These database files can then be used to generate graphs of the collected data. collectd itself does not generate graphs, it only collects the data. You should use software like drraw to generate pretty pictures from these RRD-files. Nonetheless, sample scripts are included to get you started on own graphing scripts. [Less]

Centreon is a network, system, applicative supervision and monitoring tool, it is based upon the most effective Open Source monitoring engine : Nagios. Centreon provides a new frontend and new functionnalities to Nagios. It allows you to be more ... [More] efficient in your network monitoring, but also allows you to make your supervision information readable by a largest range of users. Indeed, a non technical user can now use the Centreon/Nagios couple to easily understand your network infrastructure thanks to charts and graphical representations of the gathered information. Skilled users still have access to specific and technical information collected by Nagios though. [Less]

OpenNMS is the world's first enterprise grade network management platform developed under the open source model. It consists of a community supported open-source project as well as a commercial services, training and support organization.

Aircrack-ng is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured. It implements the standard FMS attack along with some optimizations like KoreK attacks, thus making the attack much ... [More] faster compared to other WEP cracking tools. In fact aircrack is a set of tools for auditing wireless networks. [Less]

Yong is server/network/uptime monitor that is completely independent of server side software , this means that you did not need to run anything on your target server , Yong independently check target server for icmp echo request , dns hostname request , and any tcp based protocol via hot-plugable mechanism .

Firestarter is a firewall tool for Linux, and uses GNOME. You can use the wizard to create a basic firewall, then streamline it further using the dynamic rules. You can open and close ports with a few clicks, or stealth your services giving access ... [More] only to a select few. It features a real-time hit monitor which you can watch as attackers probe your machine for open ports. [Less]

GLPI is the Information Resource-Manager with an additional Administration Interface. You can use it to build up a database with an inventory for your company (computer, software, printers, etc). It has enhanced functions to make the daily life for ... [More] the administrators easier, like a job-tracking-system. [fr] Gestionnaire libre de parc informatique. [Less]