Free mrtg misc probe software for linux

mrtg-misc-probe probes different system features for mrtg to graph.
Currently it can probe:
- percent usage of disk space and inodes for UFS filesystems
- percent usage of disk space for VxFS filesystems
- incoming and outgoing mail messages on sendmail mail server
- total size of mail messages sendt and received on sendmail mail server
- network delay using NTP peers/servers
- number of ClearCase vobs and views
- number of available and used ClearCase and MultiSite licenses
- number of active and disconnected sessions of a Citrix Metaframe server
- number of reachable hosts in a given network range
- network device reachability (ping success)
Enhancements:
- New probes: ctxmf - number of active and disconnected Citrix Metaframe sessions; hostcount - scan given nmap-network-range and return number of hosts found.

mrtg-ping-probe project monitors round trip time and packet loss to another host. Still on my TODO list: add own min/max/avg rtt calculation, add perl ping module, add rping and rsh support...
mrtg-ping-probe is a ping probe for MRTG 2.x. It is used to monitor the round trip time and packet loss to networked devices. MRTG uses its output to generate graphs visualizing minimum and maximum round trip times or packet loss.
mrtg-ping-probe depends on the following software being installed on your system: perl (at least version 5.6.1), mrtg (I use version 2.8.8, though any mrtg 2.x version should work), and a ping program that displays a summary of the round trip times upon termination or timeout.
mrtg-ping-probe runs on AIX, BSD/OS 2.1, FreeBSD/2.2.x, IRIX/6.2, Linux, Mac OS X (Darwin 5.4), NetBSD, OpenBSD, OS/2, OSF1 V3.2, Solaris 1.1.2 (SunOS 4.1.4), Solaris 2.5.1 (SunOS 5.5.1), Solaris 7 (SunOS 5.7), Solaris 8 (SunOS 5.8), Solaris 9 (SunOS 5.9), HP-UX 9, Windows 98, and Windows 2000 (english, french, portugesee, and spanish locales).
If you install the Windows ping program that comes with Windows 98, Windows 2000, or WinSock 2.x, mrtg-ping-probe will also run on Windows 95 and Windows 4.0.
Support for additional systems is usually easy to add, as described in the file INSTALL.
Act responsible: do not use mrtg-ping-probe to ping devices without the owners permission. Just imagine 10,000 people would decide to ping your hosts ... mrtg-ping-probe is meant to be used within your network to get round trip time performance figures for your network.
Usage: mrtg-ping-probe [-hsvV] [-d deadtime] [-k count] [-l length] [-o ping_options] [-p [factor*]{min|max|avg|loss|integer}/[factor*]{min|max|avg|loss|integer}] [-r [rsh:][user@]host[:osname]] [-t timeout] host
Enhancements:
- new platforms supported: italian Windows 2000 locale.
- bugfixes: on Windows actually return deadtime when we lost all packets, not 0. the ping child process should actually be killed now on Unix platforms.
- changes: ***** Possible Incompatability ***** raised minimum required perl version to 5.6.1. lots of typos fixed.

mrtg-ntap-probe can probe for Network Appliance NetCache caching appliance and NetApp Filer.

mrtg-ntap-probe retrieves the disk and file (inode) utilization by volume or quota tree name, so you do not need to find the right OID, which might change over time as you add and/or remove volumes and quota trees.

You need a recent release of mrtg 2.x, perl 5.003 or better, a NetApp NetCache appliance with NetCache release 5.1 or better and/or a Network Appliance Filer running Data Ontap 6.0 or better.

If you have a Network Appliance service contract and access to their software tools library on now.netapp.com, you should also take a look at their mrtg-filer and mrtg-netcache packages!

MRTG::Parse is a Perl extension for parsing and utilizing the logfiles generated by the famous MRTG Tool.

SYNOPSIS

use strict;
use MRTG::Parse;

my $mrtg_logfile = "/var/www/htdocs/mrtg/eth0.log";
my $period = "day";
my $desired_unit = "GB";

my ($traffic_incoming, $traffic_outgoing, $traffic_sum) = mrtg_parse($mrtg_logfile, $period, $desired_unit);

print "Incoming Traffic: $traffic_incomingn";
print "Outgoing Traffic: $traffic_outgoingn";
print "= Sum $traffic_sumn";

This perl extension enables its users to parse and utilize the logfiles that are generated by the famous MRTG (Multi Router Traffic Grapher) tool.

mrtg_parse() takes three argument:

1st: filename of the mrtg logfile
2nd: time period to genereate the output for
valid values are:
- individual time periods like: 20040821-20050130 (ISO 8601)
- static values: day, month, year
3rd: the desired unit (optional)
valid values are:
- B, KB, MB, GB, TB
- if missing mrtg_parse will chose an adequate one for you
mrtg_parse() returns three values:

1st: Incoming traffic
2nd: Outgoing traffic
3rd: Sum of incoming and outgoing

Qmrtg is a modular tool to help monitoring the activity of a qmail server. Its intended to be used with MRTG. Each module carries out a different log analysis.
A super-module lets the user easily request any analysis without having to know anything about the modules themselves. It was originally written for qmail, but most of its modules work with any software using multilog (see daemontools). It is an alternative to qmailmrtg7.
Enhancements:
- autoconf and automake are now used.
- A bug in the concurrency analyzer that caused incorrect reports under some circumstances was fixed.
- The user documentation was revised along with the target description in the mrtg config file.

MRTG RRDtool Total Statistics is a PHP script that uses MRTG and RRDtool to sum up traffic monthly and yearly. Just click on any device and MRTS will show you the traffic-graphs and the statistics on how much traffic you have made during the actual/last months/year.

MRTS is short for “MRTG RRDtool Total Statistics”. It is a PHP script written by Thor Dreier that uses “MRTG and RRDtool to sum up total traffic monthly and yearly”. But why making words, if you can see the full power of MRTS in some examples: http://mrts.domainnet.dk

First thing to do is to check, which of the above mentioned packages you already have installed. No idea? Well, then you should do a simple
ls /var/db/pkg
or
pkg_info

which lists the packages, you have installed using the FreeBSD ports. If you don’t know what the FreeBSD ports are, then you probably won’t have to read on, as some basics really are required in this tutorial ;) Anyway, i’m trying to explain step by step. After you have checked your installed packages, install the packages you still need.
Net-SNMP: /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp
MRTG: /usr/ports/net-mgmt/mrtg
RRDtool: /usr/ports/net/rrdtool

Some of these programs depend on various libraries (e.g. zlib, libpng, GD), but that’s the good thing: The port-install-mechanism will automatically check, if you have them or not and it will install them, if needed. Do a make && make install && make clean

in the corresponding port directories to install that specific port. Now it could take a while until all ports are compiled.

MRTG short from Multi Router Traffic Grapher is a tool to monitor the traffic load on network-links.
Routers are only the beginning. MRTG is being used to graph all sorts of network devices as well as everything else from weather data to vending machines.
MRTG is written in perl and works on Unix/Linux as well as Windows and even Netware systems.
Enhancements:
- SNMVv3 handling was improved.
- Support for SNMPv2/3 devices WITHOUT HC counters was added.
- Indexmaker parsing was made more robust.
- Netware support was updated.

Dynamic Probe Class Library (DPCL) is an object-based C++ class library that provides the necessary infrastructure to allow tool developers and sophisticated tool users to build parallel and serial tools through technology called dynamic instrumentation.
Dynamic Probe Class Library takes the basic components needed by tool developers and encapsulates them into C++ classes. Each of these classes provide the member functions necessary to interact and dynamically instrument a running application with software patches called probes.
Dynamic instrumentation provides the flexibility for tools to insert probes into applications as the application is running and only where it is needed.
Enhancements:
- This version is a minor update to DPCL that fixes a couple problems that have been reported since the v3.4.2 release