The following is a description of various "addons" that are available for NetSaint. These and other addons can be obtained from the downloads page on the NetSaint website (www.netsaint.org).
Index
cl_status - Console interface for viewing status of monitored services
neat - Web-based administration interface for NetSaint
netsaint_mrtg - MRTG scripts for graphing host and service status information
netsaint_statd - Perl daemon and plugins for monitoring remote host information
nrpe - Daemon and plugin for executing plugins on remote hosts
nrpep - Service and plugin for executing plugins on remote hosts
nsa - Web-based administration interface for NetSaint
nsca - Daemon and client program for sending passive check results across the network
pscwatch - Watchdog daemon that ensures passive service checks are being submitted
saintmap - Perl/TK application that creates 2-D drawing coordinates for hosts from a drag and drop visual interface
cl_status - Console interface for viewing status of monitored services |
Author: | Adam Bowen |
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This program is designed to run in a console and display the current status of monitored hosts and services. It uses ncurses to display as many status lines as possible based on the screen size settings. It will also make the console beep and flash if there are any problems. You can specify the rate at which the status information is refreshed from the NetSaint status log. |
neat - Web-based administration interface for NetSaint |
Author: | Jason Blakey |
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NetSaint Easy Administration Tool (NEAT) is a web administration interface for NetSaint that is written in Perl. It allows you to add/edit/delete definitions in your host configuration file and restart NetSaint upon completion of the configuration changes. Unlike nsa, it does not require a database to store your configuration data. |
netsaint_mrtg - MRTG scripts for graphing NetSaint host and service status information |
Author: | Richard Mayhew | ||||||||
Overview: | Allows you to produce MRTG graphs of NetSaint host and service status information | ||||||||
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This package includes two scripts which allow MRTG to generate graphs of host and service status totals, as reported by NetSaint. The scripts scan the NetSaint status log to determine the total number of services or hosts that have problems or are okay. Examples of how to incorporate the scripts with MRTG are provided in the README.mrtg file. |
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netsaint_statd - Perl daemon and plugins for monitoring remote host information |
Author: | Nick Reinking | ||||||||||||||||
Overview: | Allows you to monitor disk usage, load average, processes, and users on remote hosts. | ||||||||||||||||
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netsaint_statd is a daemon which allows a NetSaint host to get information such as process count, users, disk usage, and load information using the corresponding plugin scripts. The daemon does not process the system information in anyway. It merely collects the information and hands it back to the calling script to do with as it pleases. The daemon script is designed in such a way as to allow for easy porting to other OSes (as long as you have Perl installed). Adding other checks should also be easy by adding the appropriate sections in the command list for netsaint_statd. Currently supported OSes are HP-UX, Linux, Solaris/SunOS, IRIX, OSF1, FreeBSD, AIX, OpenBSD, and NEXTSTEP. The only requirements for getting your OS supported are the standard UNIX utilities like ps, df, etc. Host restrictions are just a small list of IPs to listen to (or you can have it listen to everybody). netsaint_statd is designed to allow easy addition of extra remote system checks. |
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nrpe - Daemon and plugin for executing plugins on remote hosts |
Author: | Me | ||||||
Overview: | Allows you to execute plugins on remote hosts in a relatively easy and transparent manner. | ||||||
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This addon is designed to provide a way for executing plugins on a remote host. The check_nrpe plugin runs on the NetSaint host and is used to send plugin execution requests to the nrpe agent on the remote host. The nrpe agent will then run an appropriate plugins on the remote host and return the plugin output and return code to the check_nrpe plugin on the NetSaint host. The check_nrpe plugin then passes the remote plugin's output and return code back to NetSaint as if it were its own. This allows for a rather transparent method of executing plugins on remote hosts. The nrpe agent can either be run as a standalone daemon or as a service under inetd. |
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nrpep - Service and plugin for executing plugins on remote hosts |
Author: | Adam Jacob |
Overview: | Allows you to execute plugins on remote hosts in a relatively easy and transparent manner. |
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NetSaint Remote Plugin Executor/Perl (NRPEP) was designed as a replacemnt for the netsaint_statd and nrpe addons. Although this addon is similiar in function to nrpe, it is written in Perl and implements TripleDES encryption for the data in transit. It is also designed to run under inetd and make use of the TCP Wrappers package for access control. |
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nsa - Web-based administration package for NetSaint |
Author: | Daniel Burke |
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Daniel Burke has created this excellent addon - named "NetSaint Administrator" - to fill the need for an more user-friendly means of configuring NetSaint. This package allows you to edit your configuration data (hosts, services, contacts, timeperiods, etc.) via a web interface. Configuration data is stored in a MySQL database and written to a text file in the proper configuration file format when you're ready. The CGIs can also run NetSaint with the -v option to verify the contents of your configuration file. This is an excellent application for anyone who either hates the native config file format or just wants an easier interface for managing the configuration data. |
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nsca - Daemon and client program for sending passive check results across the network |
Author: | Me | ||||||||
Overview: | Allows you to submit passive service checks results to another server on the network that is running NetSaint. | ||||||||
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This addon allows you to send passive service check results from remote hosts to a central monitoring host that runs NetSaint. The client can be used as a standalone program or can be integrated with remote NetSaint servers that run an ocsp command to setup a distributed monitoring environment. Communication between the client and daemon can be encrypted via various algorithms (DES, 3DES, CAST, xTEA, Twofish, LOKI97, RJINDAEL, SERPENT, GOST, SAFER/SAFER+, etc.) if you have the mcrypt libraries installed on your systems. |
pscwatch - Watchdog daemon that ensures passive service checks are being submitted |
Author: | Me |
Overview: | Ensures that passive service checks are being submitted at regular intervals. |
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This addon's sole purpose in life is to ensure that passive service checks are being submitted to NetSaint on a regular basis. This addon is designed to be used on a central monitoring server when setting up a distributed monitoring environment. |
saintmap - Perl/TK application that creates 2-D drawing coordinates for hosts from a drag and drop visual interface |
Author: | David Kmoch |
Overview: | Visual interface for creating 2-D host coordinates for statusmap CGI. |
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This addon allows you to create 2-D host drawing coordinates for use in the statusmap CGI by using a drag and drop visual interface. When you finish moving the hosts into the desired location on screen, this app allows you to save the drawing coordinates in CGI config file's hostextinfo[] definitions. Perl and Tcl/TK are required to use this addon. |