http://www.netmonitoring.org Install,configure,troubleshoot opensource monitoring with tips and tricks Sat, 03 May 2008 22:00:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Bandwidth Monitor NG (bwm-ng) is a simple small console based live Network and Disk I/O  Bandwidth monitor for Linux, Unix, BSD,Solaris, Mac OSx, Windows based platforms. There is no fancy GUI or interfaces simple console utility which installs and runs flawlessly showing live stats of your Network or Disk I/O stats. Disk ... http://www.netmonitoring.org/bwm-ng-network-disk-monitoring/bwm-ng-network-bandwidth-disk-io-monitoring/ DarkStat is a simple nTop like Packet Sniffing Network Traffic/Bandwidth monitoring utility for your Linux/Unix. DarkStat relies on libpcap and presents simple webinterface with nice graphs and stats aut-refreshed. The main advantage of Darkstat is that of the footprint and the memory, CPU usage. DarkStat can run on most of the ... http://www.netmonitoring.org/darkstat-bandwidth-monitoring/darkstat-network-bandwidthtraffic-monitoring-for-linux-nix/ B. Dijkstra at SQWEEK.com has written a simple PHP web frontend for vnStat. The latest stable version is 1.3 and is available for download here vnStat PHP Frontend requires Apache Webserver (use Apache2.2.3 here) PHP (use PHP5.2.0-8) GD Image librariesvnStat already installed So lets get the prerequisites install. Install PHP5 DebianSystem# aptitude install php5 Install GD Image ... http://www.netmonitoring.org/vnstat-bandwidth-monitoring/vnstat-php-frontend-install-config-webinterface-for-vnstat/ One of the advantages of vnStat is that it can be installed and run as a Non-Root user. This can be of a great help to query vnStat of scripts or allow operators to run the vnStat utility. Download vnStat Download vnStat from here DebianSystem# wget http://humdi.net/vnstat/vnstat-1.6.tar.gz Unzip & Untar the downloaded the file DebianSystem# ... http://www.netmonitoring.org/vnstat-bandwidth-monitoring/install-and-run-vnstat-as-a-non-root-user/ vnStat is a free OpenSource (GPL License) network traffic monitor for Linux that keeps a log of daily network traffic for the selected interface(s) on the system. Unlike other Network Traffic monitors, vnStat analyzes the traffic information from the /proc filesystem. And, vnStat can be used even without root permissions. vnStat ... http://www.netmonitoring.org/vnstat-bandwidth-monitoring/vnstat-network-trafficbandwidth-monitoring-for-linux/ Just came across this great Firefox Browser addon, Nagios Checker 0.11 for Nagios Network Monitoring system alerts. This is a great simple addon that shows any alarms on your nagios monitoring system simply on the browser status bar providing the need not to logon to Nagios web interface. The extension loads up in the status bar ... http://www.netmonitoring.org/nagios/nagios-checker-nagios-alarms-on-your-firefox-status-bar/ Centreon, previously Oreon-Project is network, system and application monitoring system modelled on the best ever opensource monitoring solution, Nagios. Centreon provides a new frontend and new functionnalities to Nagios. It allows you to be more efficient in your network monitoring, but also allows you to make your supervision information readable by ... http://www.netmonitoring.org/centreon/install-configure-centreon-network-monitoring-in-debian/ We have now installed Centreon Network Monitoring pre-requisites, Nagios, Nagios Plugins & centreon binaries. The final part of this installation procedure is to configure the setup paramaters from the web interface. If you jumped into this article then please have a look at the previous three steps of this four part ... http://www.netmonitoring.org/centreon/configure-centreon-setup-and-database/ After having installed the pre-requisites, Nagios & Nagios plugins, the next part of the installation of centreon Network monitoring solution involves the centreon binaries itself. If you jumped into this article then please have a look at the previous three steps of this four part installation procedure: 1. Install Centreon Pre-Requisites 2. Install ... http://www.netmonitoring.org/centreon/install-centreon-network-monitoring-binaries-in-debian/ Step 1 of installing Centreon Network Monitoring system covers the installation of Pre-Requisites. Centreon Network Monitoring system has a pre-requisites that needs to be included before we actually start installing the centreon binaries. The following are the list of pre-requisites for Centreon gcc & make Sudo Nagios 1.x / 2.x ... http://www.netmonitoring.org/centreon/install-pre-requisites-for-centreon-network-monitoring-in-debian/