Topic: Need a simple host monitor

[Harald van Buel]

I have been looking around for a simple app. that will let me monitor some hosts on my LAN.
I need to see if they are UP and maybe what the line delay is. (ping)
No need for fancy options, a simple statusbar per host will do.
And maybe a smalll graph that shows me the ping delays during the day.
I have looked at Big Brother, Big Sister, MRTG, etc.
But they are a bit to difficult for me to configure, not to meantion install.
Can anyone tell me wich programm will suit my needs ?
If there is a e-smith compatible RPM then that would be great.

Thanks in advance.
Harald van Buel

[Byte]

Have a look at this then http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/cbharda/howto/netprobe-howto.htm

[Milen]

Hi,
Check this out:
http://argus.tcp4me.com/features.html
but I do not think it is easy to install on SME.

I'm also looking for a similar tool but I need also good trafic control tool.
Idealy the tool should be able to show me :
- statistics on how much is the IN/OUT trafic through the SME server/gateway,
- statistics on how much is the IN/OUT trafic for any PC in my LAN.
- It would be great if it is possible also to restrict the trafic/bandwith  based on IP address (or hostname)

Any ideas?

Thank you for the help!
Milen

[Harald van Buel]

Thanx Byte, but the programm u suggest will only monitor one device by the looks of it.
Milen has found an exelent programm , thats what i need, but it needs PERL, is that on SME by default ?
Plus the talk of doing MAKE and MAKE INSTALL and I dont know what that is.
Can some expert perhaps take a look at its install story and tell me if this can be done on SME ?

http://argus.tcp4me.com/install.html

Are there other suggestions ?

[Bob King]

I have not tried it yet but am considering i-scream, have a look http://www.i-scream.org/

[Del]

Hi Harald,
Yes Perl is installed on SME
Regards,
Del

[Paul]

"Plus the talk of doing MAKE and MAKE INSTALL and I dont know what that is."

You can not use these commands on SME.  The compiling tools required are not part of SME.  If you want to compile then you will have to add the tools required.

There are some How-To's on this but I (like many others) am having trouble accessing the contribs.org website.

Paul