Open Source Network Monitor Tools
Cacti
Cacti is a complete frontend to rrdtool, it stores all of the nessesary information to create graphs and populate them with
data in a MySQL database. The frontend is completely PHP driven.
Percival
Percival is a Network Monitoring and Capacity Planning front-end to the excellent RRDtool software.
Updated:
5th February 2004
RTG
RTG is a flexible, scalable, high-performance SNMP statistics monitoring system.
Updated:
5th February 2004
SmokePing
SmokePing measures latency, latency distribution, and packet loss in your network.
Updated:
5th February 2004
Torrus
Torrus is designed to be the universal data series processing framework. Its scalable hierarchical design, application-independent
core, and highly customizable architecture make Torrus an attractive choice both for small installations and for big enterprise
or carrier networks.
Portview
Portview is tool for simplification Cisco routers and switches ports monitoring via SNMP.
Updated:
5th February 2004
NRG
NRG is a system for maintaining and visualizing network data and other resource utilization data.
NMIS
NMIS started as a SNMP polling and statistics viewer front-end to Tobi Oetiker’s RRDTool. RRDTool replaces MRTG but doesn’t
include a front end and backend to handle SNMP polling and display resulting web pages etc.
Updated:
5th February 2004
HotSaNIC
HotSaNIC (Html overview to System and Network Information Center) consists of a set of perl-scripts built on Tobias Oetiker’s
rrdtool to generate graphical system-statistics.
GxSNMP
A GPL based full featured network management application for the GNOME environment.
Updated:
5th February 2004
RRDTool
RRD (Round Robin Database) is a system to store and display time-series data (i.e. network bandwidth, machine-room temperature,
server load average).
Updated:
5th February 2004
Angel Network Monitor
The Angel Network Monitor is a relatively simple performance monitoring tool. Angel is able to check TCP connections, disk
space, system loading and Ping round trip times. Angel is extensible via Perl scripts.
Updated:
5th February 2004
AutoStatus
Autostatus is a network and server monitoring program designed to support large complex networks.
Updated:
5th February 2004
Cricket
CRICKET is widely used to produce graphs of collected data. It consists of two components, a collector and a grapher. Collected
data is held in a structure using RRDTool and displayed using a web-based interface.
Updated:
5th February 2004
NodeWatch
NodeWatch is a network monitoring polling tool. It logs connectivity changes and performs user defined commands.
Updated:
5th February 2004
Spong
Spong is a simple systems and network monitoring package.
Updated:
5th February 2004
Big Sister
Big Sister monitors systems, tracks current status and status change history, and triggers alarms.
Updated:
5th February 2004
MRTG
Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a tool to monitor SNMP variables.
Updated:
5th February 2004
SNMPSTAT
SNMPSTAT is network-monitoring system, designed to monitor standard network routers, switches and firewalls using SNMP
Added:
1st September 2005
Updated:
1st September 2005