Tag: NETWORK MONITORING

Nagios (formerly known as Netsaint) has just gone beta with it's 3.0 release. A daemon for Linux systems, Nagios is a full featured network monitoring and notification toolset which can work wonders for making uptime more effortless. Designed so that you're aware of faults before your users are, installing and configuring Nagios in your office environment can easily make you look like a wizard ...

Ever wondered what a real visualization of network data moving hither and yon would look like? You know, one of those things from the movies where it all looks really exciting and, instead of flat graphs and line after line of ping replies, the data springs to life in a 3d environment where each remote and local host is displayed on a vast virtual field? Wonder no more. The brilliant hackers at ...

Yesterday we told you about FreeMeter, an open source project which allows you to keep track of how much dump-trucking you're doing to those Internet tubes. Download Squad reader Piyo upped the ante with NetMeter, another network monitoring app without the extra features of FreeMeter, but with a few tricks of its own. NetMeter isn't just transparent on systems running Windows 2000 or later, but ...