Free alchemy network monitoring software for linux

Very Simple Network Monitor is a complete rewrite of project PHP Monitoring.
Its by default capable of monitoring via ping, UDP and TCP checks. Has builtin plugin system so customized scripts can be used to monitor whatever you like eg. oracle tablespaces, diskspace whatever; Alarms are also generated via plugins, it has standard EMAIL alarm, but can be customized to have snmp traps, or sms gateways or whatever.
Can store uptime reports in mysql and generated reports and uptimes in % availability per service.
Has one centralised html monitoring page with all alarms together for good overview.
Enhancements:
- reporting bug fixed
- alarm causes nmonitor to be locked bug fixed
- some other minor stuff I cant remember
- removed some typos from INSTALL doc:)

Remote Monitoring Agent (RMA in short) is an auxiliary application for HostMonitor. Enterprise license for Advanced Host Monitor already includes license for 10 installations of the agent. Holders of a Lite, Standard or Professional licenses may buy an additional license for Remote Monitoring Agent separately.
HostMonitor 4.0+ can monitor remote networks using Remote Monitoring Agents (RMA). RMA is small application that accepts requests from HostMonitor, performs test and provides information about test result back to HostMonitor.
Why you may need RMA? Here are just several reasons:
RMA increases security of the network. When you have to run the tests such as CPU Usage test or Performance Counters tests on a remote Windows system, HostMonitor must be able to log in to that system with administrators privileges. Instead you may now use an agent installed on that remote system. In this case HostMonitor will not have to log on to that system at all. HostMonitor needs just one TCP port to communicate with the RMA agent (by default it uses #1055 port, however you may set an agent to use any other port).
Remote Monitoring Agent is also a very useful tool when you have to monitor two (or many) separated networks (connected through Internet). In this case installing just one instance of RMA behind the firewall in network "A" will allow to monitor entire network "A" using the HostMonitor located in the network "B" with just one open TCP port.
RMA decreases the network traffic. E.g. frequent use of "File Integrity" or "Compare Files" tests in an array of remote systems may apply significant load on the network. The more and the bigger files you test the more traffic increase you get. RMA runs locally and sends only the test results to the HostMonitor thus decreasing the amount of network traffic.
Remote Monitoring Agent simplifies network administration. You no longer need to share local drives/folders to perform tests such as File Integrity, Folder/File Size, File Availability, Count Files, etc
RMA for Linux / BSD / Solaris allows you to perform tests that HostMonitor cannot perform. For example HostMonitor cannot monitor processes that are running on Linux systems. RMA can do that.
Main features:
- All traffic between Remote Monitoring Agents and HostMonitor is encrypted.
- It is possible to customize the list of enabled tests for each of the agents (e.g. living only Count Files and UNC tests only).
- You can restrict incoming TCP connections with the list of acceptable addresses.
- With RMA Manager you may configure, restart and even upgrade agent(s) remotely.

Argus Monitoring System software is a system and network monitoring application.
It will monitor nearly anything you ask it to monitor (TCP + UDP applications, IP connectivity, SNMP OIDS, Programs, Databases, etc).
It presents a nice clean, easy to view web interface that will keep both the managers happy (Red Bad. Green Good.) and the techs happy ("Ah! thats what the problem is").
It can send alerts numerous ways (such as via pager) and can automatically escalate if someone falls asleep.
Main features:
- It is open-source available at no charge.
- It has a clean and intuitive web interface.
- The web pages can easily be understood by non-technical people.
- It can generate graphs of what is going on.
- It can monitor network connectivity (Ping test)
- It can monitor TCP/UDP ports
- It can monitor a wide variety of TCP/UDP applications (HTTP, SMTP, RADIUS, ...)
- It can monitor the output or exit code of a program (Program test)
- It can monitor the content of a web page (such as a shopping cart application)
- It can monitor the authoritativeness of a nameserver
- It can monitor SNMP OIDs (such as BGP status, UPS voltage, room temperature, ...)
- It can monitor the results of SQL queries
- It can monitor itself.
- It can be extended to monitor things that the author didnt think of
- It can notify someone (or many people) when something happens
- It can escalate, and notify someone else, if things dont get fixed.
- It can not alarm for known downtime (maintenance overrides)
- It will summarize and rate-limit multiple notifications to prevent paging-floods.
- It keeps historical statistics, for analysis or SLA verification.
- It scales well and can monitor many, many things.
- It can restrict users to viewing only certain items (user "views")
- It can restrict users access to certain features (access control)
- It can support IPv6.
- It can support SNMPv3.
- It can support l10n for your native language.
- It can support redundant multi-server configurations.
Enhancements:
- This release offers improved performance and scalability, adds support for additional tests, and adds support for failover and redundancy.

Deep Network Analyzer is an flexible, open and extensible deep network analyzer (software server) and architecture for gathering and analyzing network packets, network sessions and applications protocols, passively off enterprise class networks.
DNA is designed to be used for Internet Security, Intrusion detection, Network Management, Protocol and Network Analysis, Information Gathering, Network Monitoring applications.
DNA runs as a distributed application under a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) environment and is portable across many OS environments, including: Network appliances, Switches and Routers.
Main features:
- Deep packet and session processing (layers 2-7)
- Configurable processing and output:
- Layer 4 Packet flows
- Layer 4-7 Stateful Sessions flows (client/server flow pairs)
- Layer 7 Packet and Session Application protocol Parsing (HTTP, DNS, P2P, VoIP, etc)
- Application protocol parsing toolkit enables easy devlopment of new new protocol parsers.
- Support for both symmetric and asymmetric routing links.
- Targeting based full session capture facility, like a real time targeted TCPDump.
- Flexible targeting from IP address, port tuple to application sensitive targeting.
- Configurable and extensible output adaptor utilizing OpenAdaptor able to send output to a varity of resources including: Flat file, Oracle, MySQL, MSSQL, Sybase, Sockets, JMS, RMI, WebService.
- Extensible real time collection engine portable across many OS/Packet processing environment :
- Specialized linux drivers mechanisms
- Network Appliances
- Network Switches / Routers
- Highly paralleliszed for increased performance over multi processor environment
- System metadata dictionary externalizes processing type definition
Enhancements:
- Adoption of OpenAdaptor(tm) as the Output Adapter mechanism.
- Support for local-only administration.
- A new targeted packet capture parser, new run scripts, and a new install mechanism.
- Many bugfixes.

Simple Monitor is a SuperKaramba theme inspired by the simple but effective "Very Simple Monitors" theme by the user humanthing. Some values are not displayed properly though in Very Simple Monitors (network values and IP). This could be because of different setups. My computer is pretty standard so my theme should function properly on most pcs. http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=48973
I like a tight and clean desktop, so I simplified the idea even more. This theme is showing all basic information, and nothing more.
Main features:
- Processors type
- Processor speed
- Processor load (number and graph, for one proc)
- Processor Temperature
- Amount of ram used / amount of ram
- amount of swap used / amount of swap
- amound of HDD space used / amount of HDD space total (for "/root" and "/home")
- HDD temperatue (for "/hda", I could add another drive if requested)
- Computer name
- Computer ip
- Network load (up- and download, values and graph)
- Amount of transfered data thrue internet (up- and download) since last boot
Enhancements:
- Made the three blocks clickable.
- The CPU block opens Processor information
- The Memory block opens KsysGuard (youll need to have it installed to be able open it, obviously. Its in Kubuntu by default)
- the Network block opens your computers ip settings window
- Added a line for your computers uptime
- Changed font colors to very dark gray and very light gray, instead of black and white, to make it look softer.

Network Time Tools (NTT) is a set of network tools designed to provide monitoring of a network and the services on that network, and provide various reports on the hosts/services and optional alerts via email, pager, and cellphones. It also has the capability to send messages on user-specified services to email, pagers and cell phones.
Main features:
- Bandwidth measurement based on time intervals
- Checks Service availibilty on specified Hosts for the following protocols:
- ftp
- ssh
- telnet
- dns
- http ( specific pages )
- www ( simple head )
- pop
- nntp
- imap
- irc
- smtp
- Ability to send alerts based on user specified services to:
- pagers
- cell phones
- email
- A frontend that displays a daily report that can be viewed by a web browser or cell phone.
- views specific servers
- views specific services
- views bandwidth measurements
- view alerts
- Data stored in a Mysql Database
- Easily configurable via an XML config file
- Runs in Daemon or one-shot mode