- Observer (software)
Infobox Software
name = Observer
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author = Adam Armstrong
developer =
released = October, 2006
latest release version = 0.3.2.1
latest release date = March 27, 2008
operating system =Unix-like
platform =
language =
genre =Network monitoring
license =BSD License
website = [http://www.project-observer.org/ www.project-observer.org]Observer is a PHP/MySQL-based Network Monitoring System (NMS) which collects data from devices using
SNMP and presents it via a web interface. Observer has a number of simple core design goals driving its development: minimum interaction, maximum automation and maximum accessibility of information.Observer integrates specific support for a number of vendor and platform specific features such as Dell OMSA on Linux platforms, Net-SNMP statistics as well as a number of
Cisco -specific features such asCisco Discovery Protocol , inventory tracking andVLAN tracking. TheFreeBSD -based firewall,m0n0wall , was modified to allow Observer to identify and monitor it.Observer has preliminary support for
IPv6 .Origin
Observer was inspired by an internally-written monitoring system used by the author at Onyx Internet in the UK. The author subsequently wrote a 'clone' of the Onyx system whilst at Entanet International which replicated most of the basic features of the original but without the code quality. Observer was started as a
Free Software project after the author leftEntanet to produce a better designed implementation.ee also
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Network monitoring External links
* [http://www.project-observer.org/ Observer Website]
* [http://demo.project-observer.org/ Observer Live Demo]
* [http://freshmeat.net/projects/observer/ Observer Page at Freshmeat]
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