Big Sister (software)

Infobox Software
name = Big Sister
developer = Thomas Aeby
caption = Big Sister System and Network Monitor
latest_release_version = 1.02
latest_release_date = January, 2006
operating_system = Cross-platform
genre = Network management system
license = GNU General Public License
website = [http://www.bigsister.ch/ www.bigsister.ch]

Big Sister System and Network Monitor is open source software, licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

Big Sister originally was the Big Sister network monitor. Now, multiple projects in the realm of system management and monitoring are run under the label Big Sister.

It is able to:
* monitor networked systems;
* provide a simple real-time view of the current network status;
* notify you when your systems are becoming critical;
* generate a history of status changes;
* log and display a variety of system performance data;
* store gathered data in MySQL database or plain text files.

See also

* Cacti
*Nagios
*Zabbix

External links

* [http://www.bigsister.ch/ Big Sister System and Network Monitor]
* [http://www.joerg.cc/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?BigSister Big Sister - Documentation page]