Carnivore

Description

Carnivore is a host monitoring and reporting tool. Modelled after the Big Brother system, but intended to be a more reliable real-time reporting tool (We've found that BB doesn't tend to scale very well above 50 or so monitored hosts), Carnivore is a multi-part system. The Monitoring side of the tool runs as its own system process, utilising a JDBC database connection as its configuration source and reporting log.

The Management side of the system is a Nexus module, allowing both HTTP and Nexus access to the system.

 

Status

Carnivore is currently in a 1.0 stable release, providing Ping, SMTP, POP3, FTP, SSH, and HTTP monitoring. The Reporting frontend for the system is currently implemented in php4.

Download

Carnivore 1.01

Bugs Fixed in this Version

• Removed jni-ping, replaced with wrappers for ping on windows and linux

Examples

See http://bastion.rendrag.net.au/carnivore/

Todo

• Add standalone client to run on each monitored host to pass cpu/disk/memory/process details back to the carnivore server. It is envisaged that this may either be a java application, or a shell/perl script which passes textual data back to the Carnivore Daemon
• Add email notifications
• Add groups and parents functionality
• Build configuration frontend - 50% completed

Maintainer

rendrag [at] gumbynet.org