- Argus (monitoring software)
infobox software
name = Argus
developer =
latest_release_version = 3.5
latest_release_date = June 2007
status = active
programming_language =Perl
operating_system = AnyUnix-like
genre =Network management system
license =Artistic License
website = http://argus.tcp4me.com/Argus is a systems and network monitoring application.It is designed to monitor the status of
network service s, servers, and othernetwork hardware . It will send alerts when it detects problems.It is
open-source software written entirely inPerl ,and provides a web based interface.Overview
* Can monitor most network services.
* Supports bothIPv4 andIPv6
* Includes graphing.
* Web based front end.
* Can monitor tens-of-thousands of services on common PC hardware.
* Supports distributed and redundant configurations.
* Configured using simple text files.Details
* Monitoring of network services (SMTP, POP3,
HTTP , NNTP, ICMP, SNMP, FTP,Telnet , SSH,Gopher ,NFS , DNS,Radius , IAX2, SIP,SunRPC ,Whois ,Rwhois , LPD, NTP)
* Monitoring of server resources: CPU load, network load, and disk usage, using an agent.
* Monitoring of the results of any command or script.
* Monitoring is easily extendable through user-written scripts.References
* Website, Argus. [http://argus.tcp4me.com/ argus.tcp4me.com]
* Network World, [http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/030707-network-pros-favorite-freeware.html Network pros share their favorite freeware] , Mar 2007.
* Melvin, Nemirovsky, Musoll, etal. [http://www.zytek.com/~melvin/melvin-np2a.pdf A Massively Multithreaded Packet Processor] , The 9th International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture, Feb 2003.
* IPv6 Promotion Council of Japan, [http://www.v6pc.jp/pdf/en-11-v6trans-tips.pdf IPv6 Deployment Guideline] , 2005.
* The 6Net Consortium, [http://www.6net.org/book/deployment-guide.pdf An IPv6 Deployment Guide] Sep 2005.See also
*
Comparison of network monitoring systems External links
* [http://argus.tcp4me.com/ argus.tcp4me.com]
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