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Collegiate:
No

One-line Description:
Network monitoring system

Filename:
baywatchOS.zip

Size Compressed:
860 MB

Allocated Memory:
256 MB

Username:
root

Password:
password

VMware Tools Installed?:
Yes

Operating System:
CentOS 4.3

Torrent?:
No

Applications:
GroundWork Monitor Open Source 4.5-11
Nagios® Version 2.0
MySQL 5.0.18-0
Webmin 1.270-1

Last Updated:
May 26, 2006 - 00:22

Description:
baywatchOS virtual appliance is a network monitoring system. It's based on GroundWork Monitor Open Source and Nagios. It control the status of your systems, applications, databases, and network equipment. It can do reporting and notify critical events by email or pager. Here's a brief list of features:
- Monitoring of network services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, etc.)
- Monitoring of host resources (processor load, disk usage, etc.)
- Simple plugin design that allows users to easily develop their own service checks
- Parallelized service checks
- Ability to define network host hierarchy using "parent" hosts, allowing detection of and distinction between hosts that are down and those that are unreachable
- Contact notifications when service or host problems occur and get resolved (via email, pager, or user-defined method)
- Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events for proactive problem resolution
- Automatic log file rotation
- Support for implementing redundant monitoring hosts
The size of the uncompressed zip file is about 6 Gb.
The appliance was built using various open source sw. I only put them together and create a pair of scripts for the installation, a couple of profile for easy deploy your monitoring system, a basic configuration of Linux Firewall (iptables) and a lot of testing to be sure about the correct operations. The system is fully updated at 21/05/2006. There's no an X gui, so I decide to use Webmin for easy administration of the base system (the os). The network monitoring sw have it's own web interface.
The network monitoring sw need some little customization for network configuration, so I create a couple of scripts to do this. When you power on the appliance for the first time, a simple text wizard guide you to the steps necessary to complete the installation in your environment. First you configure network setting (the system comes up with network down) and last you configure your keybord and timezone (default: italian/Italy). After this, the system reboot and is ready to use. I recommend to configure a reliable time source and change the root password.
Now point your web browser to http://yournew.baywatchOS/ , login with
user admin and your password (default: admin). You are now in the GroundWork Monitor
Open Source world, the network monitoring sw.
Go at Configuration EZ page, select Host and then do a discovery of your network systems, Commit your configuration and that's all.
For more detailed info on getting up and running read the Getting Started pdf file included in the baywatchOS.zip archive.
baywatchOS is made from the following components:
- Operating System
CentOS 4.3 - http://www.centos.org/
- Applications
GroundWork Monitor Open Source 4.5-11 - http://www.groundworkopensource.com/
Webmin 1.270-1 - http://www.webmin.com/
GroundWork Monitor Open Source is made from:
* Nagios® - An availability monitoring system, offered under GPL. http://www.nagios.org
* Nagios® plugins - A set of small elemental programs designed to monitor availability and performance of network devices, servers, and applications.
* GroundWork Guava - A PHP application portal framework
* Status Viewer - A PHP front end user interface for Nagios®
* MySQL - An open source relational database.
* GroundWork Monitor Architect (aka MonArch - An open source, web-based, configuration tool for Nagios®
It's possible to download it from the following link:
http://in.solit.us/archives/download/135199
Created by Gianluca Emaldi

Technical Specifications

Operating System:

CentOS 4.3

VMware Tools installed: No

Size: 860MB

Allocated Memory (RAM): 256

Applications Installed:

GroundWork Monitor Open Source 4.5-11
Nagios® Version 2.0
MySQL 5.0.18-0
Webmin 1.270-1

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