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Tarun
Asked: 2013-06-13 22:33:41 +0800 CST

What tool can I use to monitor a network of PCs?

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I want my system to act as the central system for the rest of my network of 10 PCs. I also want to monitor what's going on, and monitor the activity of other systems. So how can I do this? What are the tools I need to monitor; just using top or any bandwidth monitoring tool is the only thing required, and how can I use my system as a centralized server for rest of the systems?

networking

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  1. Best Answer

    Nagios is considered one of the best monitoring tools on the market. They also offer an open source version "nagios core" (nagios3-core in the Ubuntu Software Center). Having said that, you might want to take a look at this directory of network monitoring tools.

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  2. Take a look at http://munin-monitoring.org/

    there are many plugins available and the possibility to write own ones, so you can nearly monitor everything you want.

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