Projects within Monitor

  • APing

    - advanced ping program written in python that can make four type of ICMP probes
  • AcpiTool

    - A versatile command line ACPI client for Linux.
  • Alarm Pinger

    - Monitors IP devices by ICMP echo requests
  • Alist

    - Collects and stores information about systems
  • Analog

    - Web logfile analysis program
  • Atop

    - System- and process-level monitor
  • Auto-autofs

    - Generates an automounter map
  • AutoScan

    - Network management tool
  • Autopoweroff

    - Shuts down a computer when certain conditions are met
  • Autossh

    - Monitors and automatically reestablishes SSH connections
  • Autothrottle

    - Adjusts CPU according to the system load
  • BBclone

    - PHP Web counter
  • Backroute

    - Router monitor
  • Battstat

    - Applet that monitors the battery charge on a laptop
  • Benchmark-Timer

    - Times and becnhmarks portions of code
  • BlockIt

    - Monitors the Snort alert file
  • Bubblegum

    - Watches files for changes via stat()
  • Bubbling Load Monitor Applet

    - Graphic display of CPU and memory load
  • BulkWatch

    - Takes action when an IP has exceeded its maximum settings
  • CaSchd

    - a Ruby network manager.
  • Cacti

    - Frontend for RRDTool
  • Changedfiles

    - Framework for filesystem replication, security monitoring, and/or automatic file transformations
  • CheckWebsite

    - Performance monitoring and uptime notification tool
  • Clunix tools

    - GNU/Linux cluster management tools
  • Command Line Progress Bar

    - Displays information about a data transfer stream
  • ConnMon

    - A connection and bandwidth monitoring program
  • Conserver

    - Provides remote access to serial port consoles
  • Cricket

    - Monitors trends in time-series data
  • Cvsstat

    - Shows CVS activity
  • DMD

    - Service manager that's a replacement for SysV-init
  • DULog

    - New log notifier and parser
  • Darkstat

    - Network statistics gatherer
  • Devfsd

    - Manages entries in the Device Filesystem
  • Di

    - Disk information utility
  • Directory Administrator

    - Manages UNIX users and groups in an LDAP directory
  • Diskfree

    - Tracks and reports changes in file size
  • ECNCheck

    - Tests for ECN support and RFC-violating refusal
  • Echoping

    - Testing tool for TCP servers
  • Epylog

    - New log notifier and parser
  • Etherape

    - Network monitor
  • Ethtool

    - Ethernet diagnostic and tuning tool
  • Eximstate

    - Monitors Exim installations
  • FAM

    - Notifies users when specific files or directories are changed
  • Fail2Ban

    - Fail2Ban monitors log files like /var/log/pwdfail or /var/log/apache/error_log and bans failure-prone addresses. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address or executes user defined commands.
  • Fcron

    - Schedules periodic commands
  • Filewatcher

    - Maintains a local file archive repository
  • Fireparse

    - Reports on packets logged by a system's packet filtering subsystems
  • Fping

    - Pings multiple hosts at once
  • Free-SA

    - Free-SA is tool for statistical analysis of daemons' log files
  • GKrellM

    - System monitor package
  • GNOME Sensors Applet

    - a GNOME panel applet to display system temperatures, fan speeds and voltage readings from hardware sensors under GNU/Linux.
  • GTKPBButtons

    - A visualisation client for PBButtonsd.
  • Gcount

    - Web site counter
  • GdMap

    - A tool to display disk space using treemaps.
  • Gnome Netstatus

    - Monitors and reports on your network interfaces
  • Grafist

    - Bandwidth utilization viewer
  • Gravityd

    - Graphical display of network testing tools
  • Grsecurity

    - Security system that implements a detection/prevention/containment strategy
  • Hardware Lister (lshw)

    - Is a small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine.
  • HeapDraw / HeapTracer

    - a postmortem analisys tool, to see how the heap evolved during the life of a process.
  • Heartbeat

    - Monitors hosts and provides high-availability failover services
  • Honeyd

    - Creates virtual hosts on a network
  • IP Accounter

    - IP accounting package
  • IP Traf

    - Generates network statistics
  • ISP-Check

    - Tests the connectivity of your ISP
  • IrcGraph

    - Visualizes IRC traffic
  • IsoQlog

    - Mail log analysis program
  • Jailkit

    - Quickly creates limited user accounts in a chroot jail
  • Justniffer

    - a tcp packet sniffer.
  • K Load Applet

    - Displays system load
  • KDirStat

    - Displays disk usage information for directory trees
  • Kleandisk

    - Removes extraneous files from your hard disk
  • LCD4Linux

    - Displays information on an external LCD
  • Launchtool

    - Launches applications
  • LavaPS

    - Interactive process-tracking program
  • Lbench

    - a simple GNU/Linux multithread benchmarking tool.
  • Ldapdiff

    - Compares and adjusts ldif files with a running LDAP server
  • LibSysCtr

    - GNU/Linux system call tracing library
  • LineControl Server

    - Remotely controls server connections
  • Lire

    - Log analyzer
  • Lm_sensors

    - Utilities to monitor temperatures, voltages, and fans
  • LoGS

    - Common Lisp log analysis software
  • Loggerithim

    - System monitoring package
  • Logintop10

    - Creates "Top 10" lists from wtmp statistics
  • Logrep

    - Collects and presents information from logfiles
  • Logwatch

    - Analyzes and reports on system logs
  • LooperNG

    - Intelligent event routing daemon
  • MRTG

    - Monitors traffic load on network links
  • MagicStats

    - Web server log analysis tool
  • Mars

    - Network status monitor
  • Mbuffer

    - Enhanced version of buffer
  • Mdadm

    - Tool for creating, maintaining, and monitoring "md" device arrays
  • MoSSHe

    - A lightweight, secure server monitoring system.
  • Mon.cgi

    - CGI interface for checking the status of a 'mon' service
  • Mondo Health Monitor

    - A system health monitoring daemon based on lm_sensors.
  • Monfarm

    - Monitoring system for server farms
  • Monit

    - Utility that monitors daemons or similar programs
  • Mony

    - ICMP monitoring tool
  • Moodss

    - Modular System Monitoring Software
  • Mtr

    - Network diagnostic tool
  • Munin

    - Gathers, graphs, and displays information
  • Net::Telnet::Cisco

    - Automates Cisco management with Perl
  • Netstat-nat

    - Displays NAT connections
  • Network Monitoring Tool

    - Stores and manages information about your network devices
  • NetworkControl

    - Controls and monitors network interfaces
  • Node runner

    - Connects network nodes in a certain order
  • Noflushd

    - Monitors disk activity
  • NorthStar

    - Tracks and assigns IP allocations
  • PBButtonsd

    - An Apple PowerBook hardware control and power management daemon.
  • PIKT

    - System monitoring tool
  • PMReport

    - PHP/MySQL report generator
  • POT

    - Transparently persists almost any object tree
  • Peep

    - Allows real-time aural monitoring of network information
  • Ping

    - Tests whether or not a give host is online
  • Pipemeter

    - Shows the flows of data from input to output
  • Placid

    - Web-based frontend for Snort
  • Poink

    - TCP/IP-based ping implementation
  • Portmon

    - Network monitor
  • Power Daemon

    - Monitors your UPS and shuts it down if needed
  • Procman

    - Process viewer and system monitor
  • Psmon

    - Process monitor
  • RFC

    - Helps system administrators run a filesystem checker
  • RRD Tool

    - Stores and displays time-series data
  • RRDPoller

    - Gets the current value of a given data source in an RRD file
  • Reportdhcp

    - CGI reporting tool for ISC DHCPD lease file stats
  • RootkitHunter

    - Scans for rootkits, backdoors, and sniffers
  • Run

    - Controls CPU biasing of processes
  • RunQ

    - Performance data gathering system and analysis tool.
  • SNMP::Info

    - Gives an object oriented interface to information obtained through SNMP
  • SNMPTT

    - SNMP trap handler for use with Net-SNMP snmptrapd
  • SafetyNet

    - Keeps critical processes running
  • Shoutstats

    - Shoutcast server statistic analysis program
  • SmokePing

    - Monitors and graphs network latency
  • Snoopy Logger

    - Logs all executed commands
  • Snort-rep

    - Snort reporting tool
  • Snortalog

    - Summarizes Snort logs
  • Snowlog

    - Web server access log browser and analyzer
  • Socklog

    - Small, secure replacement for syslogd
  • Stat

    - Displays information about a file
  • StatsDawg

    - A suite for monitoring various aspects of a GNU/Linux system using RRDTool and PHP.
  • Stress

    - Simulates certain types of stress of a system
  • Sudoscript

    - Provides an audited root shell
  • Sysmon

    - Network monitoring tool
  • Sysstat

    - The sar, mpstat, and iostat commands
  • System Garden Habitat

    - A capacity management and performance monitoring system.
  • System call tracker

    - Intercepts and acts on system calls
  • TCP Re-engineering

    - Monitors and analyzes data transmitted via TCP
  • Tcpspy

    - Logs information about incoming and outgoing connections
  • Time

    - Reports the user, system, and real time used by a process
  • Tiobench

    - Threaded I/O bench for Linux
  • Trickle

    - Bandwidth shaper
  • Ulim

    - Enforces resource limits on processes
  • Userinfo

    - Shows info about local users
  • WDX

    - High availability, application and service failover
  • WFlogs

    - Firewall log analysis tool
  • Watchdog

    - Software watchdog daemon
  • Watsup

    - monitor system resources and the processes using those resources.
  • Webmin

    - Web interface for Unix system administration
  • WebminSysinfo

    - Gives realtime system information
  • Webminstats

    - Sysstats module for Webmin
  • XDU

    - Graphical disk usage tool
  • XIFMon

    - Monitors any interfaces in the /proc file system
  • XenMan

    - GUI based xen management tool
  • Xhdbench

    - Tests output speed of various devices
  • Xnee

    - Records, distributes, and replays X11 protocol data
  • Xtraceroute

    - Graphical version of 'traceroute'
  • Zope Watchdog

    - Monitors Zope's memory usage
  • acct

    - GNU system accounting utilities
  • afick

    - File integrity checker
  • am-utils

    - Berkeley automounter suite of utilities
  • andatool

    - Displays the frequency of regex and logfile matches
  • arpalert

    - Uses ARP address monitoring to help prevent unauthorized connections
  • ascpu

    - CPU load monitor
  • asmem

    - Memory utilization monitor
  • atchange

    - Automates file changes
  • atkins

    - Examine variables, tables, and linked lists in the kernel
  • atsar

    - Detects performance bottlenecks
  • authfail

    - Tracks IP addresses that cause authentication failures
  • auto nice daemon

    - Automatically renices jobs
  • bandwidthd

    - Tracks and graphically displays TCP/IP network usage
  • barcat

    - Displays an ASCII progress bar
  • beep

    - Makes the console beep
  • bfr

    - Pipe buffer
  • bwstats

    - bandwidth utilization diagram generator
  • calamaris

    - Generates statistics from log files from proxy cache servers
  • changetrack

    - Monitors changes to system files
  • checksuite

    - Programs to help with daily sysadmin tasks
  • collectd

    - Collects system information and writes the results in an RRD-file
  • cronolog

    - Web log rotation program
  • dazuko

    - Lets 3rd-party applications execute file access control
  • dbench

    - Filesystem benchmark
  • ddclient

    - Updates dynamic DNS entries
  • displayusers

    - Generates user lists
  • drraw

    - Interactive graph builder
  • elf

    - ELF object file header analyzer
  • ficc

    - Manages multiple Tripwire installations
  • fileschanged

    - A command line utility for monitoring files for alterations.
  • flowd

    - Small, fast, secure NetFlow collector
  • ftpStats

    - Xferlog analyzer
  • fwanalog

    - Parses and summarizes firewall logfiles
  • gPS

    - Reports process status
  • glTail

    - Real-time visualization of server traffic, events and statistics with SSH and OpenGL
  • grabinfo

    - Display metrics about a server using XML
  • htop

    - An interactive text mode process viewer for GNU/Linux. A 'better top'.
  • httpdstats

    - a perl script that generates a statistical summary of the contents of an Apache access log.
  • httplog

    - Logfile rollover program
  • iWatch

    - A real-time filesystem monitoring program.
  • incident.pl

    - Generates incident reports for attempted security attacks
  • iplog

    - is a TCP/IP traffic logger.
  • kperfmeter

    - Performace statistics monitor for KDE
  • libgtop

    - Retrives various information about usage of system resources, processes, etc.
  • libpcap

    - Library that provides a packet filtering mechanism
  • log4c++

    - C++ port of log4j
  • log4sh

    - Logging framework for shell scripts
  • logalert

    - A log file monitor that takes actions in response to triggers.
  • logcheck

    - Monitors system logs and notifies user of violations
  • memtester

    - Tests a computer's memory subsystem
  • mon

    - Scheduler and alert management tool
  • mrtg-rrd

    - Displays MRTG graphs from RRDtool data
  • mynetmonitor

    - Mynetmonitor is a gtk2 net monitor with system
  • nefu

    - Monitors services over the network
  • nepim

    - Measures available bandwidth between hosts
  • net-check

    - Monitors Internet connectivity
  • netalert

    - Simple network service avaibility monitor
  • nfswatch

    - Montiors and displays a record of network traffic
  • nmaplr

    - Prints out a report of nmap logs in an XML format
  • ntop

    - Network traffic usage monitor
  • pfflowd

    - Datagram export for the PF packet filter
  • php syslog viewer

    - Is a web application viewing and searching system logs stored in a MySQL database.
  • php-syslog-ng

    - Front-end for viewing syslog-ng messages logged to MySQL in real-time
  • phpMyVisites

    - Web traffic analyzer with detailed reports and advanced graphics
  • phpsitestats

    - Website monitoring and statistics software
  • pircstats

    - IRC network statistics bot
  • pmacct

    - Gathers IP traffic information
  • procps

    - Utilties that monitor system status
  • ps-watcher

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  • qdu

    - Graphical disk usage utility
  • rate

    - Monitors and analyzes router traffic
  • remstats

    - Gathers, monitors, and maintains data from servers and routers
  • rootsh

    - Logs keystrokes and output to a file and/or syslog
  • rrdutils

    - Tools for creating and graphing RRD files
  • sample_load

    - Extremely flexible load logger
  • scanlogd

    - TCP port scan detection tool
  • schedtool

    - Alters or queries a process's scheduling policy
  • shiela

    - Access control and logging facility for CVS
  • shuriken

    - Uptime scheduler
  • softflowd

    - Software flow-based network monitor
  • swapd

    - Dynamic swap creation daemon
  • sysindex

    - Provides information about system in both human and machine readable formats
  • syslog-ng

    - System logger that sorts based on message contents
  • sysprof

    - CPU profiler that profiles the entire system
  • systraq

    - Monitors a system and warns when system files change
  • tcpdump

    - Tool for network monitoring and data acquisition
  • tidy

    - Pulls out the significant entries from a group of standard entries
  • top

    - CPU usage display program
  • trafflogger

    - Conf-based traffic logger
  • tstat

    - Collects performance indexes and statistical data about Internet traffic
  • tupd

    - Reports uptime statistics via HTTP
  • vcp

    - Copies files and directories
  • vlogger

    - Logger daemon for Apache
  • wlanmeter

    - Monitors the signal/noise level on wireless network interfaces
  • wmfire

    - Displays a burning fire to show the load on a machine
  • x86info

    - Displays diagnostic information about CPUs
  • xautolock

    - Monitors console activity under the X window system
  • xdiskusage

    - Displays disk space usage
  • xlogmaster

    - Monitors logfiles and devices
  • xps

    - Displays Unix processes as a tree under X
  • xtail

    - Watches file growth
 
 

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