SNIPS is a system and network monitoring software that runs on Unix systems and can monitor network and system devices. It is capable of monitoring DNS, NTP, TCP or web ports, host performance, syslogs, radius servers, BGP peers, etc. New monitors can be added easily (via a C or Perl API).

False alarms are avoided by escalating events through severity levels- hence if a site is unreachable, the site will be tested multiple times before finally indicating that it is 'critical'. All events are logged, and the operator has the capability to decide which level to view the events at.

Available monitors are:

ICMP ping	RPC portmapper
OSI ping	Ethernet load
TCP ports	Nameserver
Radius server	Syslog messages
Mailq	NTP
UPS (APC) battery	Unix host performance
BGP peers	SNMP variables
Data throughput

Click here to see a sample of the web interface.

The software is available from http://www.netplex-tech.com/software/snips or via ftp from ftp.navya.com.

snips-users@navya.com is a mailing list for general discussion of SNIPS. Click here to subscribe to this mailing list (send subscribe in the BODY of your email).

Send bug reports to snips-bugs@navya.com

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