Tools for System Management

System Monitoring Frameworks

There are a couple of good summaries includeFour Star Network Management and http://www.tcsa.org/monitoring/text0.html, http://www.csm.ornl.gov/~dunigan/netperf/netlinks.html

• NetCool (Expensive, the but best option for large networks)
• Nagios (used to be netsaint)
• OpenNMS
• Big Brother & Big Sister
• Argus
• OpenSec List of Monitoring Tools
• mon
• ntop - network top
• eEMU
• RedAlert
• swatch
• MONIT
• Spong
• Ganglia
• firescope
• zenoss

• zabbix

• microsoft operations manager

• wikipedia Comparison_of_network_monitoring_systems

   

Probes

• NET SNMP (was UCD SNMP)

Time Series Graphs

• MRTG: the original
• Cricket: easy to configure large numbers of probes... usde to collect around several thousand data points (simple for small scale network traffic)
• Orca: most flexible

Tool Repositories

• SourceForge
• FreshMeat
• Freeware for Solaris

Network Understanding

• nfsen
• nfdump
• stager
• http://www.ntop.org/
• nsight
• netflow tracker
• ipacco
• flowscan
• http://freshmeat.net/projects/flow-tools/
• http://www.splintered.net/sw/flow-tools/
• http://nfdump.sourceforge.net
• http://ehnt.sourceforge.net
• http://www.switch.ch/tf-tant/floma/software.html
• http://www.splintered.net/sw/flow-tools/

Unclassified / Other Stuff

• cfengine
• aegis
• Amanda, The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver
• AccessWatch
• Excalibur DNS Checker
• Sudo Home Page
• WheelGroup Corporation
• Automation facilitating system administration, at UCI
• Amanda, The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver
• Webmin
• Modules
• SEPP
• RACE
• opencm - source control system
• netdirector
• rocks
• netdisco
• scalr - manage ec2
• http://www.r-tt.com/ - data recovery
• vncmgr

• http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home