The Network Management Tools Menu
We present for your pleasure a wide and varied menu of tools. Please let us know if your favorite isn't listed here!
Pick your favorite piece of the puzzle!
- Project Management
- Workflow Automation
- Change Management
- Time Management
- Inventory Control
- Trending and Thresholding
- Alert Management
- Problem Solving Tools
- Intrusion Detection
- Software Distribution
- Public Relations
- Monolithic Management Systems
- ala carte (i.e., we didn't know where else to put it!)
Project Management
 | MS Project - Microsoft's very popular project management package |
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Workflow Automation
| remedy - a commercial tool designed for help desks, but with an API for modifications |
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Change Management
| RCS - never mess with an old classic! |
| CVS - the Concurrent Versions System, a popular system in the free software community |
| Perforce - a heavyweight commercial system available for very many platforms |
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Time Management
| IDS - It Doesn't Suck. I'll get a link for this soon. It's a very lightweight e-mail based project system. |
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Inventory Control
| Item one - a tool for doing something |
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Trending and Thresholding
| cricket - a very flexible data collection and graphing system |
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Alert Management
| mon - an extensible alert management system with many existing modules |
| netcool - a commercial alert manager with a very flexible architecture and a GUI front end |
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Problem Solving Tools
| Item one - a tool for doing something |
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Intrusion Detection
| Item one - a tool for doing something |
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Software Distribution
| Item one - a tool for doing something |
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Public Relations
| Item one - a tool for doing something |
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Monolithic Management Systems
| HP Openview - a very popular platform for network management |
| Spectrum - another very popular platform. Spectrum emphasizes fault isolation using a topological database. |
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ala carte
| conserver - a very feature rich serial console manager. (Jeff says it's a virtual DecWriter.) |
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