WhatsUp Gold Replacement

[JD Runyan]

You pay for big brother, when you use it to monitor a system that does
not belong to you.  It is free to use to monitor your own systems.

-- 
Jason D. Runyan
Mid-Range Systems Administrator
USDA NITC Kansas City

On Jun 19 16:23, dattaway at attaway.net wrote:
> > I have a new client that is in trouble for running illegal software.
> > They hired my services to make them legit within the next 90 days before
> > they get audited.  Not a problem. We've actually saved them alot of time
> > and money by switching several basic Windows 2000 servers to linux to
> > do almost the same thing. (Another cusomer dumping Exchange and going
> > to linux!).  On thing they use tho, is WhatsUp Gold.  If your not familiar
> > with this program, it's a GUI utility that pings IP addresses/hostnames
> > within a specified amount of time, and if it's up, it has a little green
> > flag to it.  If it's down, it turns red.  They need a utility like this,
> > and I'm trying to find an opensource/openlicense one that I can install
> > for them with RH 7.3 and KDE desktop.  Any suggestions?

> Ouch.  Freshmeat shows 506 projects related to network monitoring.  Which 
> one to choose?

> This appears to have the most concise display of colors and statistics.  
> It also has the gpl license, unlike big brother's pay for commercial use:

> http://freshmeat.net/screenshots/7454/    <--screenshot

> http://freshmeat.net/projects/opennms/?topic_id=150%2C152%2C146