Re: Network Monitoring System

From: Chris Albert (spam_at_mcgill.ca)
Date: 05/05/04 

Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 16:44:27 GMT

On Wed, 05 May 2004 16:39:58 +0100, Graham Nicholls wrote:

> I want to monitor various things on client networks, such as status of
> backup, disk space, etc.
>
> Big brother and its siblings are a big pain, IMO, so I've written my own
> stuff. Its simple.
> Basically there are 3 programs and a database;
>
> 1. Am I wasting my time 'cause theres already something better out there?
> 2. Is this of any use to anyone else?

Have you looked at nagios ? (spong, opennms
,http://www.slac.stanford.edu/xorg/nmtf/nmtf-tools.html,
http://www.topology.org/comms/netmon.html , ...)
Many of those tools already have a large contributed set of agent tools
for many platforms.
I'm not trying to discourage you, but why not pick the best project for
you needs already available and then contribute to it?

Chris