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Network Management Using Free Software
Meta-Resources
- Linux SNMP Network Management Tools
- This page assumes that you already have a working knowledge of the basic tools -- ping, netstat, traceroute, nslookup, dig, tcpdump, /proc/net, ipfwadmin, tcpwrapper, maskd and are looking for graphical, distributed tools.
- Network Monitoring with Linux
- Mirror of the old gatech page. Multiple categories of tools, including graphical interfaces, software which plots statistics, monitors, and statistics collectors.
- Network Monitoring Tools
- List maintained by Les Cottrell, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- Network Service Monitoring, Part 2
- Article on itworld.com describing some non-snmp-centric network monitoring tools.
- The Simple Times Archive
- The Simple Times is an openly-available publication devoted to the promotion of the Simple Network Management Protocol. In each issue, The Simple Times presents: a refereed technical article, an industry comment, and several featured columns. In addition, some issues include brief announcements, summaries of recent publications, and an activities calendar.
Individual Software Packages
- mon
- Nagios (Netsaint)
- sysmon
- UCD-SNMP
- nocol
- MRTG
- rrdtool
- Cricket
- ORCA
- Scotty (includes tkined)
- A paper titled "Pong: A Flexible Network Services Monitoring System" is included in the pong distribution.
- Pong3
- SPONG
- Big Brother
- Angel Network Monitor
- Eclipse
- Master System
Books and Other References
Compiled by:
Jim Trocki
Computer Systems and Network Engineer
trockij@linux.kernel.org