ig Brother is a combination of monitoring methods. Unlike SNMP where information is just collected and devices polled, Big Brother is designed in such a way that each local system broadcasts its own information to a central location. Simultaneously, Big Brother also polls all networked systems from a central location. This creates a highly efficient and redundant method for proactive network monitoring.

Cheops is an Open Source Network User Interface. It is designed to be the network equivalent of a swiss-army knife, unifying your network utilities. Cheops does for the network what a file manager does for your filesystem.

Chklogs in a set of perl programs for the administration of Unix and other system log files.

Understanding RIP, SPF, OSPF, and EGP.

Ethereal is a network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows. It has an extensive list of features.

Software that simplifies PPP setup for Linux.

Goal: build a new environment for distributed OS administration, to let networks of heterogeneous machines administer themselves.

Monitor your network of Linux, Unix and Windows 2000/NT from a single console and see the state of all your systems from one convenient place. You can quickly and easily develop your own site-specific knowledge bases to meet your local requirements.

Some useful and funny projects made by Frank DENIS aka Jedi/Sector One. Here are proFTP and security monitors.

Provides network managers with a means of cataloging network connections.

A C++ library for heavy duty networking applications. For Objects Management, Events, Signals, Timing, and Asynchrone Stream Devices.

The Network Information Service (NIS) provides a simple network lookup service consisting of databases and processes. It was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP).

Linux performance tuning resource site.

Aims to improve the scalability and robustness of Linux to support greater network server workloads more reliably.

Using a laptop in different network environments.

A gnome applet that displays lights (RX, TX and COL) from a network device.

An active network monitor designed to run under Linux. NetSaint includes plugins to monitor several types of services (ftp, http, tcp port, and disk space). Contacts can be notified by email or pager when a problem occurs and is resolved.

NOCOL is system and network monitoring software.

A June 1999 Slashdot discussion about Performance Monitoring .

Secure shell is a way of logging into another machine, using an encrypted connection, so that no-one can snoop on the connection as it passes over the network.

Homepage of the StreamModule project. A library designed to simplify putting together programs that communicate over a network. Eschews threading and RPC style request response design.

Sysmon is a network monitoring tool designed to provide high performance and accurate network monitoring. Currently supported protocols include SMTP, IMAP, HTTP, TCP, UDP, Radius, NNTP, and PING tests

Linux IPv6 Development Project.

A software that monitors your servers and applications. Zabbix can be used for logging, monitoring, capacity planning, availability and performance measurement, and providing the latest information to a helpdesk.

Some www and network projects for Linux.