Bandwidth, Network and
Servers Monitoring tools with Installation Tutorials
Nagios
Nagios is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of
network problems before your clients, end-users or managers do.
It has been designed to run under the Linux operating system,
but works fine under most *NIX variants as well. The monitoring
daemon runs intermittent checks on hosts and services you
specify using external "plugins" which return status information
to Nagios. When problems are encountered, the daemon can send
notifications out to administrative contacts in a variety of
different ways (email, instant message, SMS, etc.). Current
status information, historical logs, and reports can all be
accessed via a web browser.
Installation and Configuration
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/nagios.htm
Oreon
Oreon© is an Open Source monitoring solution based on Nagios. It
offers to this monitoring standard a new front end and brings it
a panel of new functionalities.
Installation and Configuration
Oreon 1.3
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/oreon1.3.htm
Oreon 1.2.2
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/oreon.htm
Zabbix
ZABBIX is a 24×7 monitoring solution without high cost.
ZABBIX is software that monitors numerous parameters of a
network and the health and integrity of servers. ZABBIX uses a
flexible notification mechanism that allows users to configure
e-mail based alerts for virtually any event. This allows a fast
reaction to server problems. ZABBIX offers excellent reporting
and data visualisation features based on the stored data. This
makes ZABBIX ideal for capacity planning.
Installation and Configuration
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/zabbix.htm
RTG (Real Traffic
Grabber)
RTG Stands for Real Traffic Grabber.RTG is a flexible, scalable,
high-performance SNMP statistics monitoring system. It is
designed for enterprises and service providers who need to
collect time-series SNMP data from a large number of targets
quickly. All collected data is inserted into a relational
database that provides a common interface for applications to
generate complex queries and reports. RTG includes utilities
that generate configuration and target files, traffic reports,
95th percentile reports and graphical data plots. These
utilities may be used to produce a web-based interface to the
data.
Installation and Configuration
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/rtg.htm
MRTG (Multi Router
Traffic Grapher)
The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a tool to monitor the
traffic load on network links. MRTG generates HTML pages
containing PNG images which provide a LIVE visual representation
of this traffic.
Installation and Configuration
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/mrtg.htm
Munin
"Munin" means "memory".
Munin the tool surveys all your computers and remembers what it
saw. It presents all the information in in graphs through a web
interface. Its emphasis is on plug and play capabilities. After
completing a installation a high number of monitoring plugins
will be playing with no more effort. Using Munin you can easily
monitor the performance of your computers, networks, SANs, and
quite possibly applications as well. It makes it easy to
determine "what's different today" when a performance problem
crops up. It makes it easy to see how you're doing capacity wise
on all limited resources.
Installation and Configuration
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/munin.htm
Monit
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.
Installation and Configuration
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/monit.htm
Mon
mon is a general-purpose scheduler and alert management tool
used for monitoring service availability and triggering alerts
upon failure detection. mon was designed to be open and
extensible in the sense that it supports arbitrary monitoring
facilities and alert methods via a common interface, all of
which are easily implemented with programs in C, Perl, shell,
etc., SNMP traps, and special mon traps.
Installation and Configuration
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/mon.htm
Saidar
saidar is a curses-based application to display system
statistics. Statistics include CPU, processes, load, memory,
swap, network I/O and disks I/O along with their free
space.saidar utilizes libstatgrab library.
Installation and Configuration
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/saidar.htm
Cacti
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 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.
Installation and Configuration
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/cactifromsource.htm
Ibmonitor
ibmonitor is an interactive linux console application which
shows bandwidth consumed and total data transferred on all
interfaces.
Installation and Configuration
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/ibmonitor.htm
Darkstat
darkstat is a network statistics gatherer.
Effectively, it's a packet sniffer which runs as a background
process on a cable/DSL router, gathers all sorts of useless but
interesting statistics,and serves them over HTTP.
Installation and Configuration
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/darkstat.htm
Bigsister
Big Sister is an SNMP-aware monitoring program consisting of a
Web-based server and a monitoring agent. It runs under various
Unixes and Windows.
Installation and Configuration
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/bigsister.htm
Netmrg
NetMRG is a tool for network monitoring, reporting, and
graphing. Based on RRDTOOL, the best of open source graphing
systems, NetMRG is capable of creating graphs of any parameter
of your network.
Installation and Configuration
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/netmrg.htm
