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Collegiate:
No

One-line Description:
Simple appliance for network/system monitoring

Filename:
nsmon.zip

Size Compressed:
820

Allocated Memory:
512

Username:
root

Password:
nsmon

VMware Tools Installed?:
Yes

Operating System:
Fedora Core 4 32-bit

Torrent?:
No

Applications:
Nagios 2.3.1
Groundwork open source 4.5-11

Description:
Network and System Monitor
Appliance designed for network and system monitoring incudes discovery, and notification.
About NS/mon:
Nsmon is an appliance designed specifically for network/system monitoring. Being a virtual machine it is easily transportable from site to site. It would be an excellent tool for consultants who need an easy way to discover, monitor and troubleshoot networks and systems.
The benefits are quick and easy setup as well as easily configurable discovery of the network environment that include all the power of the Nagios monitoring system. Just like in any Nagios based system you can monitor important system statistics like your filesystem usage.
It also provides notification of important warnings.
The appliance is intended to help network or system administrators by providing a low cost alternative for the monitoring of their systems up/down status along with alot more.
NSmon is unique because in addition to the normal Nagios component for monitoring the Groundwork Opensource application provides a consistent user interface that provides among other things dicovery of the network environment.
Anyone can run this if the would like to be able to quickly get a visual represnetation of their netowrk environment. Some screen shots can be seen below. Click below for larger view.
[Opening Screen]
[Host Status]
[Map]
Construction:
The appliance was built to run from the Vmware Workstation product.
Fedora Core 4 operating system was installed selectively to minimize total system footprint.
Network/system monitoring applications were installed on top of Fedora Core 4.
Additional libaries and dependancies were included as needed to support the applications shown below.
Instructions:

1. Create your virutal machine using the nsmon.vmdk download as your virtual machines VMDK file
2. Select NAT (Network Address Tranlation) for the Virutal Appliances Network.
3. Boot the virtual appliance. The applications will start during the boot.
4. Login to the appliance, and the Groundwork Opensource console will be displayed
5. Vendor-specific application documentation is included int he folders on the desktop.
6. The appliance user(s) can initiate an discovery or will manually populate the database of devices to be monitored.

More documentation is included for configuration of the appliance zip package and on the Desktop of the appliance.
Components:
Fedora Core 4 32-bit (GPL open source)
Nagios 2.3.1 (GPL open source)
Groundwork Opensource 4.5-11 (GPL open source)
MySQL 5.X Community Edition (GPL Open source)
NS/mon version 1.01

Technical Specifications

Operating System:

Fedora Core 4 32-bit

VMware Tools installed: No

Size: 820MB

Allocated Memory (RAM): 512

Applications Installed:

Nagios 2.3.1
Groundwork open source 4.5-11

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