\documentclass[colorBG,slideColor,blends,ps]{prosper} \usepackage{alltt,key,xr,cols,rcs,acro,nick,graphicx,varioref,explanation} \RCS $Revision: 1.0 $ \externaldocument[lt-]% {../../linux_training-plus-config-files-ossi/build/masterfile} % \usepackage[pdfpagemode=None,pdfauthor={Nick Urbanik}]{hyperref} % \newcommand*{\labTitle}{Shell Programming---an Introduction} % \newcommand*{\subject}{Operating Systems and Systems Integration} \providecommand*{\RPM}{\acro{RPM}\xspace} \providecommand*{\CD}{\acro{CD}\xspace} \title{Management Applications} \author{Nick Urbanik} \email{nicku@nicku.org} \institution{A computing department} \slideCaption{SNM---Management Applications} %%%%%\Logo{\includegraphics[width=15mm]{ict-logo-smaller}} \begin{document} \maketitle \begin{slide}{Proprietary Management Systems} \begin{itemstep} \item Hewlett-Packard sells \emph{Openview} \begin{itemize} \item big, general purpose management software system \item probably the most widely used NMS \item provided for a number of platforms \item provides graphical picture of networks, handles alerts \end{itemize} management software systemprobably the most widely used NMS. \end{itemstep} \end{slide} \begin{slide}{Mon} \begin{itemstep} \item See \url{http://nms.tyict.vtc.edu.hk/cgi-bin/mon.cgi?command=query_opstatus_full} \item Mon is available from \url{http://www.kernel.org/software/mon/} \item Written in Perl \item Consists of: \begin{itemize} \item a sheduler \item monitor scripts \item alert scripts \end{itemize} \end{itemstep} \end{slide} \begin{slide}{Components of Mon} \begin{itemstep} \item a scheduler, which periodically runs \item monitor scripts, which \emph{really} check a service is available \item alert scripts that let management people know when a service is down \item Alert scripts can send: \begin{itemize} \item email \item SMS \item Pager alerts, \ldots \end{itemize} \item Architecture is simple and extensible \end{itemstep} \end{slide} \begin{slide}{Other Useful Programs} \begin{itemstep} \item Nagios --- \url{http://www.nagios.org/} \item SMSLink --- \url{http://smslink.sourceforge.net/} \end{itemstep} \end{slide} \end{document}