Management Applications
Nick Urbanik Department of Information and Communications Technology

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Proprietary Management Systems
Hewlett-Packard sells Openview big, general purpose management software system probably the most widely used NMS provided for a number of platforms provides graphical picture of networks, handles alerts management software systemprobably the most widely used NMS.

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Mon
Mon is available from httP://www.kernel.org/software/mon/ Written in Perl Consists of: a sheduler monitor scripts alert scripts
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See http://nms.tyict.vtc.edu.hk/cgi-bin/mo

Components of Mon
a scheduler, which periodically runs monitor scripts, which really check a service is available alert scripts that let management people know when a service is down Alert scripts can send: email SMS Pager alerts, . . . Architecture is simple and extensible
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Other Useful Programs
SMSLink, at

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