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Date:      Wed, 8 Jan 1997 18:12:53 -0800 (PST)
From:      John-Mark Gurney <jmg@nike.efn.org>
To:        Jason Lixfeld <jlixfeld@idirect.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, bsdi-users@bsdi.com
Subject:   Re: Network Monitoring Utility
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.970108180955.318W-100000@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970108203809.4045A-100000@industry.idirect.com>

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On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Jason Lixfeld wrote:

> Does anyone know of a decent program for BSD (FreeBSD)?  I am looking for
> something that I can setup will all the servers, terminal servers, news
> servers, proxy servers, routers, and external connections and monitor
> the services for each. ie: mail = smtp & pop service and ping monitor,
> news = nntp service and ping monitor, term servers = telnet and ping
> monitors etc.  We are currently using a Windows '95 based program by
> IPSwitch called What'sUp, and it works pretty well except for a few odds
> and ends.  We are looking for something that we can tailor and configure
> to suite our needs and I am just curious as to wether or not anyone here
> can provide any suggestions!

for FreeBSD there is a port of Big Brother (bb in net) that will watch
stuff for you...  a friend set it up to watch a server...  other than that
it watches most common services and allows paging of a sysadmin if
something goes wrong... I don't know what other features it has...

> Thanks in advance..

hope this helps... ttyl..

John-Mark

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